List of stumbling blocks in Neunkirchen (Saar)

The list of the stumbling blocks in Neunkirchen contains in Neunkirchen (Saar) laid stumbling blocks . The first relocation took place on November 19, 2012 in the Wiebelskirchen district on the initiative of the Association of Those Persecuted by the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists and the "Neunkirchen Forum for Freedom, Democracy and Antifascism ". Contrary to the usual approach, these first nine stumbling blocks were placed in a central location on Wibiloplatz. A second relocation took place from April 20 to 21, 2015 in the city center and in the Heinitz , Sinnerthal and Wellesweiler districts.

image	Surname	Location		Laying date	Life
	Adam Badhair	Vogelschlagstrasse 14		April 20, 2015	* September 8, 1899 in Neunkirchen ; † September 6, 1944 in Mauthausen Böshaar concentration camp grew up in Neunkirchen and worked at the König mine . He was a member of the SSP (Saarland Socialist Party) and the Saarsturm. After the Saar referendum , he fled to France with his wife, but was arrested on November 30, 1940 in Metz and taken into protective custody in Saarbrücken . He spent the first year of imprisonment in the Lerchesflur , but was then taken to the Dachau concentration camp , where he was forced to do labor in several satellite camps. On November 26, 1942, he was taken to the Mauthausen concentration camp and there to the notorious Gusen concentration camp , where he presumably had to work as a miner. He was murdered on September 6, 1944. " Circulatory weakness " was given as the cause of death . Nothing is known about his wife's whereabouts.
	Johann Butterbach	Herrmannstrasse 69 a		April 20, 2015	* May 4, 1906 in Neunkirchen ; † August 30, 1940 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp There is no reliable knowledge about Butterbach's professional life. He was arrested twice as a political dissident . The first time in August 1937. He was imprisoned as a political prisoner in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and released a short time later. On May 9, 1939, he was arrested again on the basis of denunciation by a neighbor with his family in Saarbrücken and returned to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. He died there on August 30, 1940.
	Hermann Drumm	Wibiloplatz		Nov 19, 2012	* January 5, 1909 in Wiebelskirchen ; † September 1, 1937 in Belchite, member of the International Brigades → Main article : Hermann Drumm
	Walter-Karl Drumm	Wibiloplatz		Nov 19, 2012	* March 19, 1907 in Wiebelskirchen ; † November 9, 1944 in the Hadamar euthanasia center Walter Karl-Drumm grew up as a normal child until he fell ill with narcolepsy in 1920 . The resulting shortening of the tendons made him cripple in the parlance of the time . Although he remained mentally normal, he was placed in an institution where he learned the trade of basket weaver. On May 21, 1932, he was taken to the Merzig state hospital, which was evacuated at the beginning of the Second World War. He was then transferred to the Schänen educational and nursing home ( Nassau ), then to the Eichberg state hospital and finally in 1943 to the Weilmünster state hospital . Subsequently, on September 29, 1944, he was sent to Hadamar, where he was killed on November 9, 1944 as part of Operation T4 .
	Wilhelm Engelmann	Wibiloplatz		Nov 19, 2012	* March 4, 1902; † October 24, 1936 with Tardienta Wilhelm Engelmann emigrated to France on February 19, 1935 and joined the International Brigades in Spain. He fell in combat on October 24, 1936.
	Fanny Günzburger	Bahnhofstrasse 25		April 20, 2015	born on March 7, 1863 in Mosbach ; died January 30, 1942 in Camp de Gurs Fanny Günzburger, née Weil, moved to Neunkirchen in 1887. There she married the businessman Salomon Günzburger. The family owned a shoe shop. Even after Salomon Günzburger's death in 1915, the family continued to run the business. Daughter Johanna and son Siegfried worked in the family business. The family was arrested on October 22, 1940 as part of the Wagner-Bürckel campaign and taken to Camp de Gurs . Fanny Günzburger passed away there on January 30, 1942.
	Johanna Günzburger	Bahnhofstrasse 25		April 20, 2015	born on September 2, 1889 in Neunkirchen; died August 13, 1942 in Auschwitz Concentration Camp After the death of their mother, the two siblings were sent to Auschwitz to be murdered, where they arrived on August 13, 1942. They were selected and immediately gassed .
	Siegfried Günzburger	Bahnhofstrasse 25		April 20, 2015	born on December 20, 1896 in Neunkirchen; died August 13, 1942 in Auschwitz Concentration Camp After the death of their mother, the two siblings were sent to Auschwitz to be murdered, where they arrived on August 13, 1942. They were selected at the ramp and gassed directly .
	Fanny Herold	Bahnhofstrasse 45		April 20, 2015	born on February 21, 1879 in Wiebelskirchen ; died 1964 Fanny Herold, b. Haas, worked for many years with her husband in a tobacco retail shop with an affiliated wholesale business. In October 1935 the shop had to close due to boycott measures by the Nazis. Fanny Herold was arrested on October 22, 1940 and taken to Camp de Gurs . There she managed to escape on August 2, 1941. She lived in hiding in France undetected and returned to Neunkirchen on February 18, 1946.
	Edmund Myrtil Herrmann	Brueckenstrasse 4		April 20, 2015	born May 20, 1930 in Neunkirchen; died unknown Myrtil Herrmann grew up as the son of the Jewish scrap metal dealer Myrtil Herrmann in Neunkirchen. After the family was arrested as part of the Wagner-Bürckel campaign , he stayed in a home run by the OSE children's aid organization . He was then hidden in a monastery in the Pyrenees. He survived the war and went to Israel, where he worked as a carpenter.
	Germaine Herrmann	Brueckenstrasse 4		April 20, 2015	born on April 11, 1896 at Guebwiller ; d. unknown date in Auschwitz concentration camp Germaine Herrmann, b. Bloch, the wife of the scrap metal dealer Myrtil Herrmann, was taken to Auschwitz on September 13, 1942 and selected by the doctors for the gas chamber. An exact date of death is not known. She was pronounced dead on December 31, 1942.
	Luise Herrmann-Ries	Wibiloplatz		Nov 19, 2012	* March 12, 1904 in Altenkessel ; † January 17, 1971 in Neunkirchen resistance fighter → Main article : Luise Herrmann-Ries
	Myrtil Herrmann	Brueckenstrasse 4		April 20, 2015	born on July 12, 1896 in Ottweiler ; died unknown date in Auschwitz concentration camp Myrtil Herrmann worked as a scrap dealer who was active up to Strasbourg. Together with his wife, he first lived in Ottweiler, then on Bahnhofstrasse in Neunkirchen. In addition to the scrap metal business, the family also ran a wine trade. The license for both shops was withdrawn from them in 1937. During the Reichspogromnacht they were arrested and taken to Lerchesflur prison. The family property was confiscated. After a short time in Dachau concentration camp, he was released and returned to his family. He was arrested again as part of the Wagner-Bürckel campaign . The family was separated and Myrtil was first sent to the Rivesaltes camp as a forced laborer and was deported to Auschwitz in 1943. He initially worked as a slave labor. His further fate is unclear, he was pronounced dead on May 9, 1945.
	Willi Herrmann	Wibiloplatz		Nov 19, 2012	* November 17, 1897 in Wiebelskirchen; † February 17, 1944 in Butzbach prison, resistance fighters → Main article : Willi Herrmann (resistance fighter)
	Friedrich Hollinger	Wibiloplatz		Nov 19, 2012	* January 21, 1890 in Neunkirchen ; † April 29, 1941 in Dachau Concentration Camp Friedrich Hollinger served as a soldier in World War I and was promoted to sergeant . He worked at the Neunkirchen ironworks , joined the USPD and was a co-founder of the Wiebelskirch KPD local group in 1920 and was active as a trade unionist. Dismissed in 1928 after a strike, he then worked for the Wiebelskirch waterworks. As a supporter of the anti-fascist united front , he was dismissed and was unemployed for three years. Only in 1938 was he able to get back into employment as an unskilled worker . He held back with political statements. On April 20, 1940, Adolf Hitler's 51st birthday, he publicly expressed his displeasure with Hitler in a pub and was denounced by the couple and various guests. He was arrested a little later and sentenced to five months in prison. After serving his sentence, he was taken into protective custody and taken to Dachau concentration camp, where he was murdered on April 29, 1941.
	Wilhelm Jung	Wilhelm-Jung-Strasse 12		April 20, 2015	* December 8, 1881 in Neunkirchen ; † December 5, 1942 in Auschwitz concentration camp Wilhelm Jung came from a family of miners and from 1897 worked himself at the Dechen mine . Together with his wife he moved near Aachen, but returned to Neunkirchen after being injured in the First World War . He continued to work as a miner until he retired early in 1927. As an SPD member, he remained loyal to his party until the end of the voting campaign in the Saar area. During his retirement, he ran a pub that was then used as a refuge for opposition members. On November 11, 1939, he was arrested after denouncing a guest. His undoing was a remark he made by Georg Elser about the exploded bomb attack on Hitler . He was sentenced to two years in prison. After serving this sentence, he was taken into protective custody and transferred to Sachsenhausen concentration camp . In 1942 he came to Auschwitz, where he was murdered on October 5, 1942.
	Helma Kaub	Kuchenbergstrasse 81		May 11, 2018	* 1915; † December 23, 2001 Fanny Kaub, b. Lützenburger, was the daughter of August and Fanny Lützenburger. Like her mother, she was raised in the Jewish faith. Helma worked as a hotel worker and as a domestic help in Bad Wildungen , gave up her job after her mother's illness and moved to live with her parents in Wiebelskirchen . The family cannot comply with the request to leave the country due to a lack of financial means. In April 1939 the family was expropriated and from 1941 they had to wear the yellow star. Disenfranchised and penniless, she lived with her father in Wiebelskirchen until she was arrested by the Gestapo on March 5, 1945, two weeks before the Saar area was liberated . Initially held in prisons in Neunkirchen, Sulzbach, Landstuhl and Neustadt, she was deported to Theresienstadt on March 11, 1945 with Transport No. 37-III / 11 , where she was housed in a horse stable after her arrival on March 14, 1945. She was assigned to work by a roofer, but suffered from dizziness due to malnutrition, which took her to the camp grounds for three days. There she later worked as a nurse. After her liberation on May 8, 1945, she left Theresienstadt on June 11, 1945 and returned to Wiebelskirchen on June 21, 1945. On December 11, 1961, Helma married Walter KAub, who died only four years later. Until her death in 2001 she lived in the house at Kuchenbergstrasse 81 in Wiebelskirchen.
	Erich Koble	Wibiloplatz		Nov 19, 2012	* January 15, 1906 in Wiebelskirchen ; † February 13, 1941 in the Hadamar euthanasia center When Erich Koble was born, complications occurred. As a result of an insufficient supply of oxygen, he was born mentally handicapped . He was considered not to be schooled. In 1918 he came to a home for handicapped children in Fischbach-Weierbach , where he was housed until 1939, and in 1939 he was transferred to the Herborn State Sanatorium . At some point he was taken to the Hadamar euthanasia center, where he was murdered on February 13, 1941 as part of Operation T-4 .
	Adolf Lösch	Heizengasse 28		April 20, 2015	* March 23, 1909 in Neunkirchen ; † June 23, 1938 in Buchenwald concentration camp Adolf Lösch was arrested on May 24, 1938 in Königsberg as part of the “Arbeitsscheu Reich” campaign and taken to Buchenwald concentration camp. He died there a month later on June 23, 1938.
	August ME Lützenburger	Kuchenbergstrasse 81		May 11, 2018	* 1881 in the district of Fürth , Bavaria ; February 29, 1948 in Wiebelskirchen August Lützenburger was baptized as a Protestant. Due to the Jewish denomination of his wife Fanny Lützenburger, he was forced to retire as a railway secretary at the instigation of the NS Gau leadership. The family cannot comply with the request to leave the country due to a lack of financial means. In April 1939 the family was expropriated.
	Fanny Lützenburger	Kuchenbergstrasse 81		May 11, 2018	* 1873; † September 20, 1939 Fanny Lützenburger, b. Hayum, was of Jewish denomination and the wife of August Lützenburger. She was temporarily arrested during the Reichspogromnacht . The family cannot comply with the request to leave the country due to a lack of financial means. In April 1939 the family was expropriated.
	Friedel Maurer	Grubenstrasse 81		April 20, 2015	born on June 3, 1897 in Dillingen ; died unknown date in Auschwitz concentration camp Friedel Maurer, b. as Delfriede Levy, married to a Protestant Christian, was taken to Camp de Gurs on October 22, 1940 together with her son Hjalmar, who had been baptized as a Protestant, as part of the Bürckel-Wagner campaign . The Saarbrücken regional court divorced and Maurer was declared dead by the Saarbrücken registry office. In fact, she was first taken to the Rivesaltes camp and later on to the Auschwitz concentration camp . Until August 10, 1944, it can be proven that she was alive, as samples from her were sent to the SS Hygiene Institute in Auschwitz.
	Hjalmar bricklayer	Grubenstrasse 81		April 20, 2015	* April 9, 1934 in Saarbrücken Hjalmar Maurer was considered a half-Jew in the eyes of the National Socialist race doctrine , although he was baptized as a Protestant. He and his mother were arrested on October 22, 1940 and taken to Camp de Gurs . After that, he was presumably sent to a Catholic children's home and taken to the United States.
	Hugo Meyer	Wibiloplatz		Nov 19, 2012	born September 11, 1895 in Thorn ; died on October 9, 1942 in Auschwitz concentration camp. Born in West Prussia, Hugo Meyer lived in Wiebelskirchen from 1921 onwards. From 1924 he worked as a tailor. As a Jew, his business license was revoked from May 3, 1937. He was arrested during the Reichspogromnacht . From there he came to the Dachau concentration camp via the intermediate station Lerchesflur , where he was released. He returned to Wiebelskirchen. He was arrested again on October 22, 1940 and initially taken to Camp de Gurs . He then lived in France for a short time. His further living conditions are not known. What is certain is that he was murdered in Auschwitz on October 9, 1942.
	Franz Muller	Old Forge		April 20, 2015	* November 12, 1913 in Neunkirchen ; † March 26, 1938 in Mauthausen concentration camp Franz Müller was classified as "work-shy" and brought to Mauthausen concentration camp, where he was murdered.
	Karl Muller	Old Forge		April 20, 2015	* November 11, 1888 in Wellesweiler ; † February 24, 1944 in Buchenwald concentration camp On November 19, 1943, Karl Müller was brought to Buchenwald as an ASR prisoner , where he died on February 24, 1944.
	Eva Pirrung	Max-Braun-Strasse 45		April 20, 2015	* May 23, 1883 in Neunkirchen ; † December 28, 1943 in Auschwitz concentration camp Presumably murdered as part of Operation 14f13
	Ludwig Stemmler	Huettenbergstrasse 58		April 20, 2015	* October 20, 1903 in Neunkirchen ; † February 10, 1943 in Dachau Concentration Camp Ludwig Stemmler was a member of the KPD and the Red Front Fighter League from 1932 to 1935 . He was denounced by neighbors when he sang Die Internationale on June 11, 1937 while still very drunk . Two days later he is said to have said loudly “The red front must stand” in public. This statement was also denounced. Initially classified as a harmless act and gross nonsense by the Neunkirchen district court , the Gestapo arrested Stemmler on suspicion of communist activities. He was brought from the Lerchesflur to Buchenwald concentration camp, where he died on February 10, 1943, without ever being tried.
	Martha Strasser	Wibiloplatz		Nov 19, 2012	* November 21, 1910 in Wiebelskirchen; † January 18, 2002 in Berlin, nurse in the Spanish Civil War and member of the Resistance → Main article : Martha Strasser
	Alfred Vooss	Huettenbergstrasse 63		April 20, 2015	born on July 27, 1892 in Baumholder ; died August 14, 1942 in Auschwitz concentration camp Alfred Vooss was a businessman and sold toys from Nuremberg. His wife Else ran a general store. Both were arrested as part of the Wagner-Bürckel campaign and taken to Camp de Gurs. Both arrived in Auschwitz on August 14, 1942, where they were murdered.
	Else Vooss	Huettenbergstrasse 63		April 20, 2015	born on December 9, 1900 in Crefeld ; died August 14, 1942 in Auschwitz concentration camp Alfred Vooss was a businessman and sold toys from Nuremberg. His wife Else, née Hoffmann, ran a general store. Both were arrested as part of the Wagner-Bürckel campaign and taken to Camp de Gurs. Both arrived in Auschwitz on August 14, 1942, where they were murdered.

literature

• Ulrike Heckmann, Rainer Dörrenbecher: Laying Stumbling Stones: Victims of Fascism 1933 - 1945 Monday, November 19, 2012, 9 a.m., Wibilo-Platz, Wiebelskirchen with the artist Gunter Demnig . Ed .: Neunkircher Forum for Freedom, Democracy and Antifascism. District town Neunkirchen, Neunkirchen 2012 ( neunkirchen.de [PDF]).
• Ulrike Heckmann, Rainer Dörrenbecher: Laying Stumbling Stones: Victims of Fascism 1933 - 1945 Monday, April 20, 2015, 3 p.m. and Tuesday, April 21, 2015, 10 a.m. in Neunkirchen with the artist Gunter Demnig . Ed .: Neunkircher Forum for Freedom, Democracy and Antifascism. District town Neunkirchen, Neunkirchen 2015 ( neunkirchen.de [PDF]).
• Ulrike Heckmann, Rainer Dörrenbecher: Laying stumbling blocks: Victims of fascism 1933 - 1945 Friday, May 11, 2018 in Neunkirchen with the artist Gunter Demnig . Ed .: Neunkircher Forum for Freedom, Democracy and Antifascism. District town Neunkirchen, Neunkirchen 2018.

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

• The stumbling blocks on the side of the district town of Neunkirchen