List of stumbling blocks in ketch

Stumbling blocks in ketch

The list of stumbling blocks in Ketsch contains the stumbling blocks that were laid by the Cologne artist Gunter Demnig in Ketsch , a municipality in the Rhein-Neckar district . 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.

The only relocation in Ketsch so far took place on October 24, 2016.

Jews in ketch

The small Jewish community of Ketsch came into being in the first half of the 18th century under Speyrian rule. Jews in Ketsch are first mentioned in 1727. There was a first prayer room around 1750, but its location is no longer known. Jews from Schwetzingen also visited the prayer room in Ketsch and when the number of Jews decreased around 1800, the Ketsch Jews went to Schwetzingen to worship. In the mid-1820s, an autonomous Israelite religious community was established, which also included the Jews of Brühl. Two Jews in Ketsch emphatically demanded their own synagogue. A house on Hockenheimer Strasse, built around 1775 and owned by a Jewish community member, was rededicated for sacred purposes. From 1827 the local community was part of the Heidelberg rabbinical district. In 1853 the Jewish community of Ketsch reached its highest level with 44 people. The community only had its own teacher for a short time. The deceased were buried in the cemeteries of Bruchsal or Wiesloch, after 1893 in Schwetzingen.

Even before the National Socialists came to power in Germany, the number of Jews living in Ketsch was steadily decreasing. Gustav Kaufmann's brickworks existed until 1932. There were still three Jewish-run shops in the early 1930s: a manufactured goods store, a grocery store, and a textile store. In 1933 there were only 13 Jews left in the community. In 1935 the local council decided to prevent Jewish families from moving to Ketsch. In 1937 the Jewish community dissolved. By 1938 one family was able to emigrate to South Africa and another to the USA. As part of the November pogroms in 1938 , the prayer room was devastated and "cleared out", and two properties that were owned by Jews were destroyed. With the arrest of Artur Metzger and his deportation to Dachau, where he was murdered, the mayor was able to report to Mannheim: "The Ketsch community is therefore free of Jews."

According to the memorial book of the Federal Archives, 13 Jewish citizens born in Ketsch fell victim to the Holocaust . The former synagogue was used as a residential building until the 1990s and then demolished.

List of stumbling blocks

The table is partially sortable; the basic sorting is done alphabetically according to the family name.

Stumbling block	inscription	Location	Name, life
	HERE LIVED KARL KEMPTNER JG. 1898 ARRESTED IN THE RESISTANCE / SPD 28.3.1944 'ARMY FORCE DECORATION' PRISON DARMSTADT DEATH JUDGMENT 5.9.1944 EXECUTED 27.10.1944 FRANKFURT PREUNGESHEIM	Hebelstrasse 50	Karl Kemptner was born on August 22, 1898. He learned the metalworking trade at Goldschmitt AG in Mannheim. From 1915 he served in World War I, received several awards, but was also wounded. He returned as a pacifist and worked for various companies in Mannheim. In 1921 he married Anna, née Östringer. The couple had at least one son, Herbert. Kemptner played handball, was a member of the local Workers 'Gymnastics and Sports Association and the Workers' Singing Association. He became a union member, worked for Schütte-Lanz Mannheim in 1927 and then for Hart & Hertel in Schwetzingen. He became a works council and eventually works council chairman. From 1937 to 1942 he worked as a mechanic at the Heinrich Lanz AG company in Mannheim and most recently from April 1942 to the end of March 1944 as a machinist at the large Mannheim power station . From 1927 Kemptner was a member of the Social Democratic Party , from 1932 he was a member of the community's citizens' committee. An election to the local council failed. In June 1932, he was involved in a battle in the Adler Gasthaus, which led to serious clashes between Communists, Reichsbanner people and National Socialists. From 1931 to 1933, Karl Kemptner was the last chairman of the Ketscher SPD, and he was also the leader of the Iron Front in the community. His commitment to the Reichstag election in 1933 read: "Whoever votes Hitler votes for war!" At the end of January 1944 he visited the wife of an acquaintance and wanted to discuss a coal delivery with her. The conversation became political. Karl Kemptner spoke, for example, of the justice of Bolshevism and that it must win. He also commented on the Fiihrer: "Hitler had prepared the war [...], from the very beginning he worked to usurp all power after Hindenburg's death." "The dissolution of the parties did not correspond to the will of the people. Germany could still be saved from destruction today if it surrendered. ”A teacher first overheard the conversation and then took part. She reported his statements. Kemptner was sentenced in a session of the 2nd Senate of the People's Court in the jury room of the Darmstadt Regional Court "to death and permanent loss of honor" for "preparing for Marxist high treason", favoring the enemy and degrading military strength on September 5, 1944. He was executed with the guillotine on October 27, 1944 at 3:12 p.m. in Frankfurt-Preungesheim. A commemorative plaque on Kemptner's house on Hebelstrasse in Ketsch was intended to commemorate him as an active opponent of the Nazi regime and a “fighter for peace, freedom and socialism”. His conviction was later overturned and his execution was recognized as a result of Nazi injustice. His name can also be found in the newly designed memorial in the Frankfurt-Preungesheim correctional facility, which opened on September 16, 1994. His son Herbert Kemptner served as a soldier in the Wehrmacht. He became a member of the SPD and was on the municipal council for many years, in 1988 he was made an honorary citizen of the city.
	ARTUR METZGER JG LIVED HERE . 1899 IN RESISTANCE / KPD 'SCHUTZHAFT' 1933 PRISON MANNHEIM KISLAU 'SCHUTZHAFT' NOV. 1938 DACHAU MURDERED 9.1.1939	Hockenheimer Strasse 16	Artur Metzger was born on February 28, 1899 in Ketsch. His parents were Louis Metzger and Netty, née Rhein. He had at least three siblings: Erna (born 1900), Siegmund (born 1903) and Thekla (born 1908). He was involved in the KPD . In 1933 he was arrested on charges of being a Communist Party leader in Ketch. He was imprisoned first in the castle prison in Mannheim, then in the Kislau concentration camp . He was released after 10 months. During the November pogroms in 1938 he was arrested again on racial grounds. He was deported to the Dachau concentration camp . Artur Metzger was murdered there on January 9, 1939. His three siblings Erna, Siegmund and Thekla were also murdered in the Shoah .
	THEKLA METZGER JG LIVED HERE . 1908 INVOLVEDLY WITHDRAWN 1936 GIESSEN DEPORTED 1942 FATE UNKNOWN	Hockenheimer Strasse 16	Thekla Metzger was born on May 23, 1908 in Ketsch. She was the daughter of Louis Metzger and Netty, née Rhein. She had at least three siblings: Artur (born 1899), Erna (born 1900) and Siegmund (born 1903). She lived in Ketsch until 1936 and then moved to Giessen . She married Siegfried Rosenthal, who came from Mainzlar and moved in with him and his family in Mainzlar. Her mother-in-law Lina Rosenthal and her brother-in-law Martin Rosenthal lived there with her and her husband. On September 14, 1942, Thekla Rosenthal, her husband and the remaining 14 Jewish residents of Mainzlar were taken to the Goetheschule in Giessen. On September 30, 1942, she and her husband, mother-in-law and brother-in-law were deported from Darmstadt to an extermination camp to the east, presumably to Treblinka. Thekla Rosenthal and her husband did not survive the Shoah. A stumbling block was also laid for them in Mainzlar. Her three siblings Erna, Siegmund and Artur were murdered in the Shoah , as were her mother-in-law and brother-in-law Martin.

laying

The Stolpersteine ​​in Ketsch were laid by Gunter Demnig personally on October 24, 2016.

Web links

Commons : Stumbling Blocks in Ketch  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Project "stumbling blocks"
• Chronicle of the laying of the stumbling blocks on the website of Gunter Demnig's project

Individual evidence

1. ↑ From the history of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area: Ketsch (Baden-Württemberg) , accessed on February 22, 2020
2. ^ Fritz Salm: In the shadow of the executioner: From workers' resistance in Mannheim against fascist dictatorship and war, Röderberg-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, p. 232
3. ↑ Mannheimer Morgen : "I never saw each other as an Abnickverein" , accessed on February 22, 2020
4. ↑ ^{a b} Mannheimer Morgen: Criticism of Hitler brought death to Kemptner , accessed on February 21, 2020
5. ↑ Mannheimer Morgen: Executed by the National Socialists , accessed on February 21, 2020
6. ^ Commemorative book victims of the persecution of Jews under the Nazi tyranny in Germany 1933–1945: Metzger, Arthur Artur , accessed on February 22, 2020
7. ↑ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: ARTHUR METZGER , based on a report by Louis Rhein, accessed on February 22, 2020
8. ↑ alemannia-judaica: Ketch with Brühl (Rhein-Neckar-Kreis) Jewish history / prayer hall / synagogue , accessed on February 22, 2020
9. ^ Commemorative book victims of the persecution of Jews under the Nazi tyranny in Germany 1933–1945: Isaak, Erna , accessed on February 22, 2020
10. ↑ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: ERNA METZGER , based on a message from Louis Rhein, accessed on February 22, 2020
11. ↑ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: SIEGMUND METZGER , based on a report by Louis Rhein, accessed on February 22, 2020
12. ^ Commemorative book victims of the persecution of Jews under the Nazi tyranny in Germany 1933–1945: Metzger, Siegmund Sigmund , accessed on February 22, 2020
13. ↑ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: THEKLA METZGER , based on a report by Louis Rhein, accessed on February 22, 2020
14. ^ Commemorative book victims of the persecution of Jews under the Nazi tyranny in Germany 1933–1945: Rosenthal, Thekla , accessed on February 22, 2020
15. ^ Commemorative book victims of the persecution of Jews under the National Socialist tyranny in Germany 1933–1945: Rosenthal, Lina , accessed on February 22, 2020
16. ^ Commemorative book victims of the persecution of Jews under the Nazi tyranny in Germany 1933–1945: Rosenthal, Martin , accessed on February 22, 2020
17. ^ Commemorative book victims of the persecution of Jews under the National Socialist tyranny in Germany 1933–1945: Rosenthal, Siegfried , accessed on February 22, 2020
18. ^ Alemannia-judaica: Mainzlar (city of Staufenberg, district of Gießen) Jewish history / prayer room , accessed on February 22, 2020
19. ↑ Mainzlar, Daubringer Straße 13 - Stolpersteine ​​for the Rosenthal family , accessed on February 22, 2020
20. ↑ ketsch.de: Project "Stolpersteine" , accessed on February 22, 2020

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