List of stumbling blocks in Brandenburg an der Havel

Stolperstein in Brandenburg on the Havel

The list of the stumbling blocks in Brandenburg an der Havel includes those stumbling blocks that the Cologne artist Gunter Demnig in Brandenburg were laid. They are dedicated to the victims of National Socialism , all those who were harassed, deported, murdered, emigrated or driven to suicide by the Nazi regime.

Demnig lays a separate stone for each victim, usually in front of the last place of residence they chose.

Relocations

So far, two stumbling blocks have been laid in Brandenburg an der Havel . One is dedicated to an SPD politician, the other to a prison chaplain. The fact that the Jewish population group has not yet been taken into account is due to the local Jewish community, which is skeptical or even negative about Gunter Demnig's project. In 2015, the Brandenburg Police Department collected money for another stumbling block and asked the city museum to suggest a name. The project failed because the initiators took the sensitivities of the Jewish community into account. A number of personalities in the city became known as victims of National Socialism as a result of preparatory work by students. Possible candidates for stumbling blocks were named:

• Wilhelm Bahms , born 1880, communist who was murdered by the Nazi regime,
• Lilli Friesicke , a Jewish doctor who owned the property at Katharinenkirchplatz 8, was arrested after the November pogroms in 1938 and committed suicide in the custody of the Neustadt town hall,
• Karl Lühnsdorf , whose descendants, however, withdrew their consent for the laying of a stumbling block,
• Karl Miethe , born in Plaue in 1903 , fishmonger and communist, fled after the Nazi seizure of power, forced to return, arrested in 1940, deported to Sachsenhausen concentration camp , in spring 1945 to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and murdered there.

Feliks Byelyenkov, the chairman of the Jewish community in Brandenburg, rejects Stolpersteine: "One should think at eye level and not look into the dirt while commemorating."

The only relocations so far took place on September 19, 2013 by Gunter Demnig. The relocations were initiated by Marie Luise von Halem , a member of the state parliament from Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen . The SPD city association and the Holy Trinity Catholic Community took on the sponsorship of the stones .

Stumbling blocks

image	inscription	address	Life
	GUSTAV SCHERNIKAU JG LIVED HERE . 1891 STADTVERORDNETER / SPD ARRIVED SEVERAL TIMES LAST 1944 GROSS-ROSEN MURDERED 11/28/1944	Katharinenkirchplatz 5	Gustav Schernikau was born on July 10, 1891. He was a magistrate, city councilor and businessman. He belonged to the SPD . After the National Socialists came to power, the politician was arrested several times. He was deported to several concentration camps and allegedly died of a weak heart on November 28, 1944 in the Groß-Rosen concentration camp .
	PRIOR BRUNO SCHUBERT JG LIVED HERE . 1883 ARRESTED April 9, 1937 'HELP FOR PRISONERS' PRISON BERLIN-ALEXANDERPLATZ DEAD May 6, 1937 CAUSE OF DEATH UNCLOSED	Neustadtische Heidestrasse 26	Bruno Schubert was born on March 30, 1883 in Lissa (now Leszno ). From October 1919 he was pastor of the Catholic Trinity Congregation in Brandenburg and during the Nazi era pastor in the Brandenburg-Görden prison . “Because he provided prisoners with support, reading material and food 'beyond what was allowed”, he was arrested by the Gestapo on April 9, 1937. On May 6, 1937, he was found hanged in the cell in the Berlin-Alexanderplatz police prison. The stumbling block was moved in front of the former rectory and today's Catholic day care center.

See also

• List of places with stumbling blocks

supporting documents

1. ↑ Märkische Allgemeine : Police show consideration for the Jewish community , December 30, 2015
2. ↑ Märkische Allgemeine : Museum and town hall stumble over stones , February 25, 2015
3. ↑ ^{a b} Press release from the Archdiocese of Berlin on the laying of the Stolpersteine ​​Bruno Schubert and Gustav Schernikau