List of stumbling blocks in Lahr / Black Forest

The first stumbling blocks in memory of the persecuted and victims of the dictatorship of National Socialism were in Lahr installed in January 2004 at the initiative of Gardy-Kathe helm. For the initiator of these cubic concrete blocks, the Cologne sculptor Gunter Demnig , Lahr was the 28th city in which he was allowed to lay them. In October 2003 the Lahr municipal council decided to give the owners the right to object to the laying of the brass-crowned concrete cores in the public space in front of their house. Demnig had publicly described this municipal council resolution as “totally idiotic” and “impossible”. With the words “We don't want to surprise the homeowners”, Lahr's Lord Mayor Wolfgang G. Müller justified the unusual decision.

Lotzbeckstrasse 41

When the first Lahr Stolperstein was let into the sidewalk at Lotzbeckstrasse 41 after a minute's silence for Lilly Reckendorf on January 12, 2004, a brief presentation by the local initiator Gardy-Käthe Ruder also revealed that the end of Nazi rule was not the end of her degradation . In 1947 Reckendorf had been informed that her German citizenship had been revoked during the dictatorship of the National Socialists because of the Reich Citizenship Laws.

Stumbling stone in Lahrer Schlosserstraße

Lahr's city historian Thorsten Mietzner spoke out to the local press on the day of the first Stolperstein laying against a restriction to Jewish victims. He estimates that two thirds of those persecuted in Lahr belong to other groups of victims. During the Nazi era, more than 500 people from Lahr lost their lives, freedom, property, home and human dignity. Mietzner also spoke out in favor of a more perpetrator-oriented approach. This is also part of a city's honest handling of its history, according to the city historian.

Research on the fate of Lahr Nazi victims comes from students at the Lahr Scheffel Gymnasium, among others . They followed up on the work of the late Scheffel teacher Hildegard Kattermann, who had started to deal with the history and fate of Lahr Jews. The “Friends of the Former Synagogue Kippenheim” is also involved in the historical review with a memorial book project.

Lotzbeckstrasse 15

Another five stumbling blocks were laid in front of the house at Lotzbeckstrasse 15, where the Jewish Lederer family lived until October 22, 1940, before they were deported to Gurs in the south of France .

Eichrodtstrasse 9

Stumbling block for Johannes Böhme

On April 14, 2013 Gunter Demnig laid the Stolperstein for Wilhelm Johannes Böhme as the 20th Stolperstein in Lahr. The sponsorship for the stone was taken over by the u-asta SchwuLesBi department at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . The honorary historian William Schaefer researched the life of Böhme and remembered him in a speech.

Böhme was born on April 11, 1881 as the fourth child of the brewery owner Friedrich Wilhelm Böhme and his wife Emma, ​​née. Cousin was born blind in Mosel (Zwickau) . Later he was operated on in Wiesbaden on both eyes and from then on had to wear star glasses , but was still considered practically blind. The family moved to Limburg an der Lahn , where Böhme opened a wine shop in 1920. In 1933 he moved to Lahr into the house of his now widowed sister Emma Martha at Eichrodtstrasse 9.

On April 11, 1940, Böhme was sentenced to one year in prison by the Freiburg Regional Court for violating Section 175 . On January 25, 1941, Böhme was admitted to the Emmendingen sanatorium. On October 23, 1942 he was transported to the Hœrdt sanatorium in Alsace, from where he was transferred to the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp on March 21, 1944 , where he was given prisoner number 8055. Twenty days later, on April 10, 1944, he was murdered in the concentration camp.

literature

• Hildegard Kattermann: History and fate of the Lahr Jews . (Ed. Stadtverwaltung Lahr), Lahr 1979
• Jürgen Stude: Die Lahrer Juden , in: Geschichte der Stadt Lahr , Volume 3, 1993

Web links

Commons : Stolpersteine ​​in Lahr / Schwarzwald  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Stolpersteine.com (Gunter Demnig)
• Friends of the Former Synagogue Kippenheim eV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Shiny stumbling blocks, white roses and candles
2. ^ Stolperstein against forgetting / Lahr / Local / Baden Online - Baden Online - Portal of the Ortenau. Accessed August 31, 2018 . 
3. ^ Zwickau City Archives; City Archives Limburg ad Lahn; City Archives Lahr; Freiburg State Archives, inventory F176 / 19 No. 9502; District Court Freiburg, Register for Main Proceedings 1935-1948, Section 4; Patient file of the Emmendingen Sanatorium (now the Center for Psychiatry Emmendingen); International Tracing Service (ITS), Bad Arolsen