List of stumbling blocks in Hausach

The list of the stumbling blocks in Hausach results by artist Gunter Demnig laid stumbling blocks in Hausach on, a town in the Kinzig Valley in the Black Forest . Stumbling blocks remind of the fate of the people who were murdered, deported, expelled or driven to suicide by the National Socialists . As a rule, they are in front of the victim's last self-chosen place of residence.

Memorial work in Hausach

The Stolpersteine ​​campaign was initiated by the group “Against Forgetting”, founded by Norbert Baumann, Günther Rosemann, Manfred Schoch and Heinz Welschbach, four of the city's citizens. The work was supported by Mayor Manfred Wöhrle. The first relocation took place on May 23, 2009 and was under the motto one person - one stone - one fate . Together with the city of Hausach, the group wanted to remember the historical truth, of four Hausach citizens who “fell victim to the arbitrariness and violence of the National Socialist regime”.

Stumbling blocks

The table is partially sortable; the basic sorting is alphabetical according to the victim's family name. The laying data can be found in a separate paragraph below the list.

image	inscription	Location	Life
	EUGEN DECKER JG LIVED HERE . 1897 DISTRIBUTED 3.6.1937 'NURSING INSTITUTION' FUSSBACH MURDERED 08/29/1940 'HEILANSTALT' GRAFENECK T4-ACTION	Schlossstrasse 4	Eugen Decker was born on February 19, 1897 in Hausach. He was the son of master butcher Karl Decker and his wife Katharina. Eugen Decker was mentally handicapped, but could help out in the butcher's shop. There are few records of his life. A contemporary witness, however, remembered that he celebrated Shrovetide every year "with great joy". After his parents died, the master carpenter Alois Schmieder took over the guardianship. On June 3, 1937, he was admitted to the Fußbach nursing home . The city of Hausach had to pay 1.60 Reichsmarks per day for care costs. On August 15, 1940, he was deported to the Grafeneck killing center in one of the notorious gray buses of the charitable ambulance transport company with thirty men, who were also disabled . The buses were painted gray and the windows had been made opaque by painting. On August 29, 1940, Eugen Decker was murdered by the Nazi regime as part of Operation T4 . His body was cremated, the urn transferred to Hausach and buried there. The official cause of death was "pelvic infection and blood poisoning," the stepmother said.
	HERE LIVED PASTOR JOSEPH KING JG. 1904 ARRIVED 1944 LANDSHUT PRISON DEAD OF CONSEQUENCES 13.5.1945	Hauptstrasse 13 (in front of the Volksbank)	Josef König was born on June 28, 1904 in Hausach and baptized on the same day. His parents were the master locksmith Josef König (1860–1935) and his wife, Monika geb. Schmider (1866-1950). Both parents came from long-established families in the Black Forest . He had a younger brother, Klaus, born in 1909, who later became a teacher. As a boy he attended elementary school in Hausach and from 1916 the Friedrich-Gymnasium in Freiburg im Breisgau . In 1922 he passed his Abitur, after which he studied theology at the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg. With great sympathy from his home town, he was ordained a priest on March 19, 1927. After the primary school, a mental illness broke out. He was taken to the Reichenau sanatorium , where he was treated for several months. After his recovery he became vicar in Lauf in October 1927 and took care of the youth work in particular. After the National Socialists came to power, he quickly got into an open conflict with members and leaders of the local NSDAP. As a result, he was transferred several times, mostly because of conflicts with local National Socialists. In 1937 he became the parish administrator, two years later the pastor in Nöggenschwiel , where he built a nurses' station, a sewing room and finally a Catholic kindergarten, in part against considerable opposition from the regime. After he had invited French prisoners of war to mass celebrations at Christmas 1940 and Easter 1941 and had organized breakfast for them in the rectory, he was forbidden from holding church services by order of May 12, 1941. He had been under surveillance by the Gestapo before . In particular, a certain Dr. Wilhelm Karsch regularly reports on the pastor's sermons. On November 2, 1944, he gave an officer's wife, Mrs. Herdey, to recognize his openly negative attitude towards the Nazi regime. He is said to have said to her that the persecution and murder of the Jews in particular is something that is tantamount to genocide. Ms. Herdey informed Wilhelm Karsch, who reported this to the Gestapo and the pastor was summoned, interrogated and arrested on November 23, 1944. The main allegation was: violation of the treachery law in ten or eleven cases. In prison he shared a cell with two fellow brothers and later with one, Pastor Erwin Dietrich, who is said to have helped a Dutch officer escape to Switzerland. There was no trial. On April 23, 1945, the clergyman was released from prison in a very weak condition. On May 4, 1945, he collapsed and was admitted to the Waldshut hospital with an "acute attack of schizophrenia." The attending physician diagnosed that the patient was neither spatially nor temporally oriented. A high temperature developed and a presumed circulatory problem. Josef König died on May 13, 1945. In a psychiatric report, Kurt Beringer , director of the Psychiatric Nervous Clinic at the University of Freiburg , stated : "A causal connection between the psychosis and the physical stress caused by the previous arrest and the five-month imprisonment must be assessed as a reasonable probability according to today's scientific views." King's informer was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in 1948/1949 for crimes against humanity.
	OSKAR LEHMANN JG LIVED HERE . IN 1914 ARRIVED 1942 TORGAU / FORT ZINNA PROBLEM BATTALION DEAD 1942, 1943 IN TOSSNO	Gartenstrasse 25 (in front of Rudi's Backstüble)	Oskar Lehmann was born on May 24, 1914 in Hausach. His parents were the master hairdresser Franz Lehmann and his wife Frieda geb. Basler. He had two sisters, attended elementary school and trained as a hairdresser. He worked in his father's business. After the National Socialists came to power, the family was under observation by the local police and the gendarmerie post in Wolfach. They were suspected of belonging to the Bible Students' Movement, which had been banned since June 24, 1933. Your house has been searched. In 1935 Oskar Lehmann was drafted. In 1937 Franz and Frieda Lehmann had to answer before a special court in Mannheim. Although they were acquitted, the surveillance and harassment continued. The local NSDAP group in Hausach boycotted the hairdressing business and issued posters calling on the population to join the boycott. His mother died in 1938 and his father in 1939. Both were in their early 50s. In December 1939 Oskar Lehmann was called up and assigned to the western campaign . He deserted while on home leave, was betrayed and tried on December 18, 1940, before a court martial. He was dismissed from service in the army as "unworthy of defense". After that there was a gap in Oskar Lehmann's biography until February 1943. He must have been arrested at some point, because on February 17, 1943 he appeared at the 500 Probation Battalion in Skierniewice , now in the Łódź Voivodeship . It was registered as access from the Torgau Wehrmacht prison on Fort Zinna , the largest and most modern prison of the Wehrmacht at the time. On February 22, 1943, the 561st Infantry Battalion was moved to the northern front, in the area of ​​the Third Defense Battle on Lake Ladoga against the advancing Soviet Army. In April 1943, Oskar Lehmann wrote a letter hoping for a happy return. At the end of August, however, the sisters received a letter from the chief medical officer and chief physician of the battalion: “Your brother was badly wounded in the head by a shrapnel. [...] In the days of his being here, your brother was unconscious and on August 19, 1943 at 6:05 p.m. he fell asleep calmly and gently, [...]. He is buried in Tossno in the cemetery of honor near the school on the taxiway Petersburg - Moscow 300 mtr. east of the bridge in single grave no. 1869. I will be present at the funeral myself. [...] I greet you with compassionate sympathy. Dr. Staudt " Oskar Lehmann was buried on the German war cemetery Sologubowka in Russia .
	FRANZ SENGLE JG LIVED HERE . 1898 PROTECTED 1940 WOLFACH DACHAU PRISON, SACHSENHAUSEN 1941 NEUENGAMME MURDERED 13.8.1941 DACHAU	Einbacher Straße 71 (Naturfreundehaus Laßgrund)	Franz Sengle was born on July 7, 1898 in Tennenbronn . He trained as a mechanical engineer, served in World War I and then moved from farm to farm in the Middle Kinzig Valley. He repaired agricultural implements and machines there. In Lassgrund he got to know his future wife, Anna Maria geb. Echle (1915-1997). The two married in 1935 and had four children: Karl, Erika, Maria and Hildegard. He was described as an "indomitable and resourceful head", expressed his rejection of the Nazi regime also publicly and did not mince his words. He was betrayed, arrested in 1940 and put into so-called protective custody . The children were then six, four and two years old, the youngest daughter was only born after her father was arrested. He was never brought to justice, and no verdict was ever pronounced. He was first imprisoned in Wolfach Prison, then in the Dachau and Sachsenhausen concentration camps . In 1941 he was transferred to Neuengamme , then came back to Dachau. There he was murdered on August 13, 1941. The Working Group Against Forgetting : "His legacy to us is to unreservedly place the dignity of every human being at the center of personal and political action." During the laying of the Stolperstein, Mona Lüttschwager, his great-granddaughter, presented the biography of Franz Sengle. She did this in an "impressive" way, according to the Black Forest messenger .

Laying data

• May 23, 2009: Eugen Decker, Pastor Josef König, Oskar Lehmann
• September 9, 2015: Franz Sengle

Web links

• Action Stolpersteine Project presentation on the official website of the city of Hausach
• Chronicle of the laying of the stumbling blocks on the website of Gunter Demnig's project

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stolpersteine ​​campaign , accessed on January 2, 2020
2. ↑ Hausach Chronik Online: In memory of Eugen Decker , accessed on August 3, 2019
3. ↑ Björn Rüsing (author), König, Josef . From: Baden biographies. New series 6, pp. 205-207, quoted here. according to regional studies online , accessed on August 10, 2019
4. ^ Hausach Chronik Online: Pastor Josef König from Hausach resisted the Nazi regime from 1933 to 1945 , accessed on August 4, 2019
5. ↑ Hausach Chronicle Online: From the concentration camp to the Wehrmacht prison and for "probation" to the north-east front , accessed on August 10, 2019
6. ↑ We remember Mr. Oskar Lehmann , accessed on August 10, 2019
7. ^ City of Hausach: Stumbling block for Franz Sengle , accessed on August 3, 2019
8. ↑ Hausach Chronik Online: The Naturfreundehaus was the Einbach parish hall , accessed on August 4, 2019
9. ↑ Baden Online: Commemoration for Franz Sengle , murdered by the Nazis , September 10, 2015.
10. ↑ Tannenbronn-Web: Individual fates recall the Second World War , accessed on August 3, 2019
11. ↑ ^{a b} Schwarzwälder Bote : "We bow to Franz Sengle" , September 11, 2015