List of stumbling blocks in Merseburg

The list of stumbling blocks in Merseburg contains all the stumbling blocks that were laid by Gunter Demnig in Merseburg as part of the art project of the same name . They are intended to commemorate the victims of National Socialism who lived and worked in Merseburg. Between 2008 and 2014, a total of seven stones and a trip threshold were laid at eight addresses.

Relocations

• May 15, 2008: three stones at three addresses
• September 9, 2009: a stone at an address
• October 17, 2011: three stones at three addresses
• September 9, 2014: A trip threshold at an address

List of stumbling blocks

 Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

address	Date of relocation	person	inscription	image	Picture of the house
Broad Street 22	17th October 2011	Carl Hermann Volkmer (1902–1942) Carl Volkmer came from Sallgast and worked as a fitter. He joined the resistance against National Socialism and was arrested in 1940. In 1941 he was deported to the Groß-Rosen concentration camp, where he died on November 13, 1942.
Christianenstrasse 23	September 9, 2014	Tripping threshold in memory of victims of euthanasia / Action T4 At least twelve people from Merseburg and the surrounding area were killed between 1940 and 1945 as part of the Nazi euthanasia program ( Action T4 ). The number of people who were forcibly sterilized is unknown.	ALSO IN MERSEBURG Crimes against sick and handicapped people forcibly sterilized, medically abused, starved, murdered 1940–1945
Dammstrasse 15	May 15, 2008	Albert Seemann (1873–1944) Albert Seemann was born in Lower Saxony and lived in England between 1900 and 1918 . On April 23, 1918, he settled in Merseburg and initially worked as a machinist in the Leuna works . In 1927 he worked as a businessman. In 1940 he retired. After being tortured by the Gestapo , he committed suicide on March 2, 1944.	ALBERT SEEMANN, born in 1873, lived here, humiliated / disenfranchised. Escape to death in 1944		tore off
Duck plan	May 15, 2008	Josef Goldstein (1899–?) Josef Goldstein came from Stolp . He was married to Käthe geb. Neustadt and had a daughter with her named Renate. Goldstein ran the “Merkur department store” in Merseburg. After being abducted for the first time by the National Socialists, he fled to England on August 23, 1939. There he was interned in the Richborough internment camp and sent back to Germany. He landed in Frankfurt am Main , from where he was deported to the Sobibor extermination camp on June 11, 1942 . His further fate is unknown.	JOSEF GOLDSTEIN born in 1899 lived here, deported to the east in 1942 ? ? ?
Erlenweg 8 (formerly Memeler Weg)	17th October 2011	Leonhard Blaßneck (1902–1942) Leonhard Blaßneck came from Haundorf and worked as a brewer. On April 6, 1940, he was sent to the Flossenbürg concentration camp as a political prisoner , where he died on February 1, 1942.	LEONHARD BLASSNECK, born in 1902, lived here . Arrested in the resistance 1942 Flossenbürg murdered February 1 , 1942
Haackestrasse 2	May 15, 2008	Adolf Reiser (1866–1945) According to the Nuremberg Laws , Adolf Reiser, who came from Petersdorf, was considered a Jewish hybrid . On November 17, 1944, he was deported to Buchenwald concentration camp , where he died on January 3, 1945.	ADOLF REISER born in 1866 lived here, arrested in 1944, Buchenwald murdered in 1945
Herweghstrasse 17	17th October 2011	Walter Karl Waßermeyer (1901–1942) Walter Waßermeyer was a native of Merseburg. He worked as a master hairdresser in his hometown. Because of his opposition to National Socialism, he was interned in the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1941. He died there on June 14, 1942.	WALTER KARL WASSERMEYER, born in 1901, lived here . Arrested in the resistance 1941 Buchenwald murdered June 14, 1942
Neumarkt 72	September 9, 2009	Henriette Pakulla b. Marcus (1878-1942) Henriette Marcus was born in Filehne . She was married to Marcus Pakulla and had two children with him. The family lived in Merseburg, where Marcus Pakulla died in 1927. After the death of her husband, Henriette Pakulla changed her apartment twice within Merseburg. On October 31, 1939, she was informed that she had to move to Halle (Saale) . From 1940, she lived there in various “Jewish houses” and on December 1, 1941, she finally came to a supposed old people's home at Boelckestrasse 24 (today Dessauer Strasse). She was deported on June 1, 1942 and murdered two days later in the Sobibor extermination camp.	HENRIETTE PAKULLA nee lived here . Markus born in 1878 deported 1942 Sobibor murdered June 3 , 1942

Web links

Commons : Stolpersteine ​​in Merseburg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• stolpersteine.eu
• geschichtwerkstatt-merseburg.de - stumbling blocks
• www.gedenkbuch.halle.de: Memorial book for the dead of the Holocaust in Halle - Memorial book surrounding area

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Stolpersteine: About 32,000 relocated in Europe , Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , October 17, 2011. Accessed October 11, 2013.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} geschichtswerkstatt-merseburg.de - Stolpersteine . Retrieved October 13, 2013.
3. ↑ geschichtswerkstatt-merseburg.de - Commemoration & Remembrance . Retrieved October 15, 2014.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Andrea Hamann: "Man stumble with the heart" , Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , May 15, 2008. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
5. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: geschichtswerkstatt-merseburg.de - Stolpersteinverlassung Pakula 2009 . Retrieved October 11, 2013.
6. ↑ Memorial Book Halle - Pakulla, Henriette . Retrieved October 11, 2013.