List of stumbling blocks in Pirna

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The list of stumbling blocks in Pirna contains all the stumbling blocks that were laid by Gunter Demnig in Pirna as part of the art project of the same name .

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These memorial stones are intended to commemorate the victims of National Socialism who lived and worked in Pirna. A first stumbling block was laid on December 6, 2013.

List of stumbling blocks in Pirna

Combined addresses indicate that several stumbling blocks have been moved in one location. The table is partially sortable; the basic sorting takes place alphabetically according to the address. The Person, Inscription column is sorted alphabetically by the person's name.

image	address	Laying date	Person, inscription	Short CV / Notes
	Dr. Wilhelm-Külz-Strasse 3 (location) Catholic parish church of St. Kunigunde	0Dec 6, 2013	Archpriest Dr. Benno Scholze born in 1891 in the Christian resistance Polish chaplain arrested 1941 Dachau liberated / survived	Dr. Benno Scholze was born on October 16, 1891 in Radibor , Sorbian . After studying theology in Prague, he was ordained a priest on August 12, 1916 in Bautzen. From 1916 to 1920 he was chaplain at the provost church in Leipzig. On July 30, 1920 he received his doctorate at the University of Leipzig. He then worked as a chaplain in Leipzig-Lindenau and as the first pastor in Markranstädt. On July 1, 1938 he became pastor of the Catholic parish of St. Kunigunde Pirna. As an active opponent of National Socialism, he became the focus of the Catholic resistance in Pirna. His duties as a pastor included the pastoral care of Polish and Slovak seasonal workers and, during World War II, also the Polish prisoners of war at Hohnstein Castle and French prisoners at Königstein Fortress . On January 15, 1941, he was arrested and taken to the Dresden police prison, where the Gestapo and the public prosecutor's office tried to convict him of “favoring the enemy” and “treasonous machinations”. On April 4, 1941, he was transferred to the notorious “ Priest Block ” 26 of the Dachau concentration camp because of “improper pastoral care” and “public enemy suspected of high treason” . After his liberation on April 29, 1945, he returned to Dresden and continued his work as a priest in Pirna until his death. He died on August 4, 1966 in Dresden and was buried on August 8, 1966 in the cemetery in Pirna. In honor of Archpriest Dr. Benno Scholze, a street in the Pirna-Sonnenstein district was named after him, which Dr. Benno-Scholze-Strasse.
	Niedere Burgstrasse 6, in front of the "Malaga" restaurant (location)	May 11, 2019	HERE LIVED KARL EMIL HEINRICH JG. 1892 ARRESTED 1939 PRISON BRAUNSCHWEIG CONDEMNED Section 175 SEVERAL PRISONASES 1941 SACHSENHAUSEN MURDERED 04/11/1941	Karl Emil Heinrich was born on April 6, 1892 in Pirna in the Dresden district in Saxony and was baptized as a Protestant. His parents' house was on Niederen Burgstrasse 6. In 1939, the 47-year-old single lived in Braunschweig and was a cement worker. On June 24, 1939, he was sent to the Braunschweig prison and on September 5, 1939, the Braunschweig Regional Court sentenced him to one year and three months in prison and three years of loss under Section 175a, Item 3 (homosexual acts with men under the age of 21) civil rights. To serve his sentence, he was transported to the Celle prison on October 20, 1939. According to his prisoner card, he was allegedly “released” to Hanover at the end of his sentence on September 22, 1940. But it is very unlikely that he would be released. Rather, he was "released" from the judiciary, but was probably handed over to the Hanover police, because around February 1941 the police transferred him to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he was given prisoner number 35,701. Emil Heinrich died on April 11, 1941 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp at the age of 49. The stone laying was initiated by the Pirnaer associations CSD eV and AKuBiZ eB.
	Martin-Kretschmer-Str. 3, in front of the old villa "Haus Spitzner" (location) "Spitzner House", Bonnewitz	May 11, 2019	LIVED / WORKED HERE MARTIN KRETSCHMER JG. 1897 ARRESTED 1941 HELPERS FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITY PRISON DRESDEN SACHSENHAUSEN MURDERED February 19, 1942 CLINKERWORK ORANIENBURG	The Bonnewitz curative education is located at Martin-Kretschmer-Straße 3 in Pirna. In the summer of 1935, the curative teacher Martin Kretschmer came to Pirna to open an institution for mentally handicapped people. He also bought the old villa in Bonnewitz, which was owned by the city of Pirna. For almost six years he managed to run the house and thus also give people a place to stay who were persecuted by the Nazis. In addition to many children, this also included the Berlin violinist Gerda Bischof, who was able to work as a teacher in Bonnewitz. In the summer of 1941, Martin Kretschmer was then targeted by the Secret State Police (Gestapo), which arrested him in Bonnewitz and took him to the Dresden police prison. From there they deported him to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. He then died in the Klinkerwerk subcamp on February 19, 1942. The facility itself was expropriated and handed over to the Hitler Youth, who ran the home as a war orphanage. Today it is again a place for children and young people with special needs, the street there is called “Martin-Kretschmer-Straße” in memory of the courageous educators. The stone laying was initiated by the Pirnaer associations CSD eV and AKuBiZ eB.

Web links

• Diocese of Dresden-Meißen: stumbling block for Archpriest Dr. Benno Scholze in Pirna with biographical information (accessed on January 27, 2018)
• Catholic Church Pirna: Pictures of the laying of the Stolperstein (accessed on January 27, 2018)
• Website of the artist Gunter Demnig
• Civil courage campaign: City of Pirna receives first "stumbling block" - St. Kunigunde parish commemorates former pastor Dr. Benno Scholze (December 6, 2013) (accessed January 27, 2018)
• ZENIT: "Stumbling block" for Archpriest Dr. Benno Scholze relocated to Pirna (December 12, 2013) (accessed January 27, 2018)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Catholic Church Pirna: Pictures of the laying of the Stolperstein (accessed on January 27, 2018)
2. ↑ Dresden Latest News: Stumbling block for priest Benno Scholze in Pirna moved (December 8, 2013) (accessed January 27, 2018)
3. ↑ Pirna TV: Video about the first Stolperstein laying in Pirna (on Youtube ) (accessed on January 28, 2018)
4. ↑ Winfrid Halder: Catholic Church and National Socialism in Saxony, in: Reiner Pommerin (Hrsg.): Dresden under the Hakenkreuz, Böhlau, 1998, ISBN 3-412-11197-X
5. ^ Hermann Scheipers: Gratwanderungen - Priest under two dictatorships, Benno-Verlag, Leipzig, ISBN 978-3-7462-3768-8
6. ↑ ^{a b} CSD Pirna eV: Stolperstein (accessed on June 4, 2019)