List of stumbling blocks in Pinneberg

Stumbling block for Heinrich Boschen

The list of stumbling blocks in Pinneberg contains all the stumbling blocks that were laid by Gunter Demnig in Pinneberg 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 Pinneberg . The integrated comprehensive school Thesdorf took over the sponsorship for the first three stumbling blocks .

Stumbling blocks

The table is partially sortable, the basic sorting is alphabetical according to the family name.

image	inscription	address	Life
	HERE LIVED HEINRICH boschen Alderman JG. 1884 ARRESTED AUG. 1944 'AKTION GEWITTER' KZ NEUENGAMME TOT ON CONSEQUENCES 4.10.1944	Bahnhofstrasse 13	Heinrich Boschen was born on August 21, 1884 in Bremen-Hastedt . He learned the trade of bricklayer and did military service. In 1906 he joined the SPD . His son Heinrich was born in 1907, from his marriage to the factory worker Emilie Bobka. The family lived at Bahnhofstrasse 13. Immediately after the outbreak of World War I, he was drafted and had to move to Belgium on August 6, 1914. Four years of military service made Boschen a staunch pacifist. Of 2,946 men in his unit who went to war, only 439 returned. His party put him up as a candidate for the first Pinneberg local elections after the war on March 2, 1919. Three years later he became a city ​​councilor for the SPD in Pinneberg. At the same time he held the position of deputy managing director of the AOK Pinneberg. After the seizure of power on 30 January 1933 he received because of his political views disbarment . As a result, the family was dependent on welfare. After the start of the war in September 1939, however, due to a lack of personnel after the confiscations, he was employed again by the AOK, albeit as an auxiliary employee. His son, who had four children himself, was sentenced to the Eastern Front after his weapon was stolen and fell in 1944. Heinrich Boschen was the victim of the Aktion grid , a wave of arrests after the failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944 . On August 23, 1944, NSDAP local group leader Alfred Krömer had former SPD and KPD city councilors arrested, including Boschen. Four days later he was deported to the Neuengamme concentration camp and severely abused there. When he was released on September 19, 1944, he could no longer walk and his face was disfigured. He died on October 4, 1944 as a result of imprisonment. A street in Pinneberg was named after Heinrich Boschen.
	HERE LIVED HEINRICH Geick Alderman JG. 1872 ARRESTED IN THE RESISTANCE APRIL 1934 UG HAMBURG UG NEUMÜNSTER2 DRUG WITHDRAWAL DEAD 13.2.1935	Friedenstrasse 50	Heinrich Geick was born on October 10, 1872 in Garstedt near Hamburg. In his youth he came to Pinneberg, where he completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter. In 1894 he married Olga Peters, a factory worker. The couple had six children and lived at Friedenstrasse 50 from 1905 onwards. Early on, he was involved in left-wing groups, probably also in the Pinneberg local branch of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD), which was founded by his son Richard. After the November Revolution of 1918 workers 'and soldiers' councils were also formed in Pinneberg, and Geick was elected to the welfare committee for the implementation of unemployment welfare . He and his wife became city councilors for the KPD in 1924 . The whole family took an active part in communist resistance work. Daughter-in-law Martha Geick also became a city councilor. Heinrich Geick was temporarily active as a cashier for the party, the family house developed into a popular meeting place, not only for party members. He was arrested in April 1934. He was first taken to the Hamburg prison , then to the Neumünster prison. Heinrich Geick had a serious heart condition. He was denied essential medicines. He died on February 13, 1935, was given a "stroke", and his body showed clear signs of abuse. A street in Pinneberg was named after Heinrich Geick.
	HERE LIVED WILHELM SCHMITT Alderman JG. 1888 ARRESTED AUG. 1944 'AKTION THUNDERSTORM' KZ NEUENGAMME MS CAP ARCONA DROWNED 3.5.1945	Prisdorfer Strasse 15	Wilhelm Schmitt was born in 1888. He was a tailor, lived and worked in Pinneberg. At first he was a member of the KPD, but joined the SPD in the late 1920s. From 1928 he was a city councilor for the SPD in Pinneberg. He was the victim of the Aktion grid , a wave of arrests following the unsuccessful assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944. On August 23, 1944, NSDAP local group leader Alfred Krömer had former SPD and KPD city councilors arrested, including Wilhelm Schmitt. He was deported to the Neuengamme concentration camp in August 1944 . Wilhelm Schmitt drowned on May 3, 1945 when the MS Cap Arcona sank . A street in Pinneberg was named after Wilhelm Schmitt.

vandalism

On the night of May 6th, 2010, the three stumbling blocks laid in Pinneberg were sprayed with black paint. In addition, the perpetrators sprayed runes on the sidewalk.

Memorial stone on Rathausplatz

A monument to the resistance fighters against the Third Reich, Heinrich Boschen, Heinrich Geick and Wilhelm Schmitt, is located on the square in front of the town hall. It was originally located at the city cemetery and was relocated in the late 1980s.

Boschen-Schmitt-Geick Prize

The three resistance fighters from Pinneberg were honored in December 2000 with the award of a Boschen-Schmitt-Geick Prize . The two young SPD board members Christian Koch and Patrick Müller had the idea of ​​naming a “price for moral courage” after them. The prize was endowed with 2000 DM. The recipient was the taxi driver Klaus Wegener. In 1997 he had saved the life of a black African at the Pinneberg train station who had been beaten up by a group of right-wing extremists.

literature

• Hildegard Kadach, Dieter Schlichting: Three lives against the dictatorship. The Pinneberg anti- Nazi opponents Heinrich Geick, Heinrich Boschen and Wilhelm Schmitt , VVN / Bund der Antifaschisten Pinneberg, 1988

Web links

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

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Individual evidence

1. ^ Anne Dewitz: Pinneberg fights against oblivion , Hamburger Abendblatt , January 26, 2012
2. ↑ Pinneberger Tageblatt : Numerous stumbling blocks remind of the victims , May 19, 2015
3. ↑ Searching for traces: Stumbling block against oblivion for Heinrich Boschen , accessed on April 24, 2019
4. ↑ Searching for traces: Stumbling block against forgetting for Heinrich Geick , accessed on April 29, 2019
5. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt : MEMORIAL STONE AND STREET NAME TO REMEMBER Die Geicks - an upright family , September 2, 2000, accessed on April 29, 2019
6. ↑ Searching for traces: Stumbling block against oblivion for Wilhelm Schmitt , accessed on August 5, 2019
7. ↑ Detlef Korte: "Aktion Gewitter" in Schleswig-Holstein , accessed on August 5, 2019
8. ^ Streets in Germany: Wilhelm-Schmitt-Straße in Pinneberg , accessed on August 5, 2019
9. ↑ Antifa Pinneberg: Stumbling blocks in Pinneberg desecrated! , May 8, 2010, accessed November 30, 2018
10. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt : Memorial stones for resistance fighters and the fallen , December 29, 2008, accessed on November 8, 2019
11. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt : SPD EHRTE KLAUS WEGENER WITH THE BOSCHEN-SCHMITT-GEICK PRIZE: "One who gave an example" , December 5, 2000, accessed on November 8, 2019