List of stumbling blocks in Löffingen

The only stumbling block in Löffingen

The list of the stumbling blocks in Löffingen results by artist Gunter Demnig laid stumbling blocks in Löffingen on a pilgrimage in the West Baar . 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 so far took place on July 2, 2019. The stone is dedicated to a victim with a petty criminal past. So far, very few stumbling blocks have been laid for people with a criminal past who were murdered by the Nazi regime.

Stumbling block

image	inscription	Location	Life
	BORN HERE KILIAN GÖTZ JG. 1897 SMALL CRIME DELICTS ACCUSED / CONDUCTED PRIME CAMP BÖRGERMOOR SECURITY DETECTION NEWENGAMME 6.1.1943 MURDERED January 15, 1943	Vorstadtstrasse 9	Kilian Götz was born on July 2, 1897 in Löffingen. His father was unknown, his mother was the single maid Sophie Götz. He was born in his grandparents' apartment. His mother married Johann Baptist Beck, who had 17 children from his first marriage. The couple had six children together. At 14 he began an apprenticeship as a butcher. He fought in World War I and returned home badly wounded. In the 1920s he lived in Freiburg, later in the Allgäu. In 1923 he married Rosa Mägerle from Memmingen , and in 1924 their daughter Frieda Maria was born. Frieda Maria grew up with Sophie Götz in Seppenhofen , she refused to give her granddaughter, and finally the district youth welfare office in Neustadt also withdrew custody of the parents. The marriage broke up and was divorced. With Theresia Regelmann, who was living in divorce, he again became the father of a daughter, in 1934 daughter Theresia was born. After Kilian Götz and the child's mother were in prison, the daughter was placed in a children's home at the age of three, and the relationship with the child's mother also broke up. Kilian Götz has committed several offenses and has been convicted of minor offenses a total of 23 times. He was last tried on February 27, 1942, where he was classified as a dangerous habitual criminal with preventive detention. He was first taken to the Börgermoor penal camp and was then asserted as an “anti-social element” and transferred to the Neuengamme concentration camp “for destruction through work” . On January 6, 1942, he was registered there with the number 13369. Kilian Götz was dead nine days later. The official cause of death was "failure of the heart and circulation in kidney inflammation". A bloodied shirt was the only legacy.

Laying date

The initiative came from the historian Jörg Waßmer, who comes from Löffingen. He had scientifically processed the life story of Kilian Götz and presented the project in a lecture.

The installation was carried out by Gunter Deming personally. The mayor spoke. The ceremony was framed by two trumpet solos, the Largo from the Pastorale and Closer, my God, to you .

Web links

• Kilian Götz from Löffingen (1897–1943) , lecture by Jörg Waßmer, Löffingen in January 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Black Forest Messenger : Löffingen receives first stumbling block , article by Silvia Bächle, June 25, 2019
2. ↑ Südkurier : Where a stumbling block reminds of Kilian Götz in Löffingen , article by Gerold Bächle, July 3, 2019
3. ↑ Gerold Bächle: Nazi victim Kilian Götz now honored. In: Schwarzwaelder-Bote.de. July 3, 2019, accessed July 8, 2019 . 

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