List of stumbling blocks in Reutlingen

Stumbling blocks for the Maier family

The list of stumbling blocks in Reutlingen contains stumbling blocks that remind of the fate of the people of this city who were murdered, deported, expelled or driven to suicide by the Nazi regime during the time of National Socialism . The Stolpersteine ​​were laid by the artist Gunter Demnig ; four stones had been laid by January 2020.

Stumbling blocks in Reutlingen

Four stumbling blocks were first laid in Reutlingen on Saturday, April 29, 2017 . In the run-up, there were long-term debates about laying stumbling blocks in Reutlingen. The Reutlingen women's history workshop made a lasting contribution to the project.

The ceremonial laying of the four stones took place in the presence of a granddaughter who had come from England and around 150 interested townspeople, association members and politicians. The fate of the Maier family has been proven by intensive research. She was not the only Jewish family in Reutlingen to fall victim to the Holocaust, because only a part of the town's 100 or so Jewish citizens managed to emigrate before 1942. The laying of the stumbling blocks to commemorate and honor the Maier family was the topic of the calendar sheet for the month of November in a calendar that was published for the year 2018 by the Reutlinger Verein Werkstatt für Geschichte der Oststadt and Betzenried .

Laying stumbling blocks

Stumbling block	inscription	Location	Installation date	information
	Adolf Maier, born in 1882, lived here . Humiliated / disenfranchised Escape to death February 18, 1937	Kaiserstrasse 117 48.489654 ° N, 9.222128 ° E	April 29, 2017	Adolf Maier was born in 1882 and came to Reutlingen in 1910. After serving in the First World War, he married Babette Oppenheimer. He lived with his family at Kaiserstraße 117 between 1923 and 1937. Maier was a real estate and mortgage merchant. From 1933 his office in Gartenstrasse was boycotted, in the summer of 1936 he filed for bankruptcy and fell ill from the burdens. He committed suicide on February 18, 1937. He was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Wankheim .
	Babette Maier nee lived here . Oppenheimer Born 1895 Deported 1940 Gurs Interned Drancy 1942 Auschwitz Murdered		April 29, 2017	Babette Maier , b. Oppenheimer was born in Gemmingen , Baden . After her marriage, she first lived with her husband on Alteburgstrasse in Reutlingen, then from 1923 on at Kaiserstrasse 117. After her husband's suicide, she and her younger child, Gerhart, moved to live with relatives in Stuttgart. From 1938 both children stayed at boarding schools in England and the family maintained contacts through letters and postcards. These were handed over to the Reutlingen City Archives by Hannelore Maier in 2002. After 1940, Babette Maier moved back to Gemmingen and was deported with other Jews from the city in October 1940 to the Gurs internment camp in southern France . Two years later she was the transit camp Drancy to Auschwitz sent to their deaths.
	Hannelore Maier, born in 1922, lived here . Escape 1937 England		April 29, 2017	Hannelore Maier was born on December 9, 1922 in Reutlingen. There she went to elementary school and girls' secondary school until, through the agency of a teacher, she got a place at a boarding school in England in January 1937. In 2000 she and her brother visited Reutlingen for the first time in 60 years. She died in London on March 30, 2015, before the Stolpersteine ​​were laid.
	Gerhart Maier, born in 1929, lived here . Escape 1938 England		April 29, 2017	Gerhart Maier was born in Reutlingen in 1929. At the age of nine, in 1938, he escaped the Holocaust with his fifteen-year-old sister in time to England. He and Hannelore visited Reutlingen for the first time in 60 years. His daughter, Kate Maier, traveled to the memorial ceremony from Great Britain in 2017 with the laying of the stumbling blocks.

Web links

Commons : Stolpersteine ​​in Reutlingen  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Chronicle of the laying of the stumbling blocks on the website of Gunter Demnig's project
• Calendar 2018 - story (s) from Oststadt & Betzenried

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chronicle. In: Stolpersteine. Retrieved November 22, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Jürgen Spiess: Stolpersteine ​​in memory of Nazi victims. In: GeA.de (Reutlinger General-Anzeiger). April 26, 2017, accessed on August 26, 2019 (for a fee). 
3. ↑ Christine Keck: The long struggle for proper commemoration: Stumbling blocks in Reutlingen. April 19, 2017. Retrieved November 22, 2019 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Jürgen Herdin: Suddenly the neighbors were gone. May 2, 2017. Retrieved November 22, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Wilhelm Borth: Bea Maier (1895-1942) between Reutlingen and Auschwitz: The fate of a Jewish fellow citizen and her family in the context of contemporary history In: Reutlinger Geschichtsblätter. Vol. 49, 2010, pp. 9-238.
6. ↑ Reutlingen. In: From the history of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Retrieved November 22, 2019 . 
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Calendar 2018 - Story (s) from Oststadt & Betzenried Website of the city of Reutlingen. Retrieved November 22, 2019.
8. ↑ Norbert Leister: Stop, pause, think. May 2, 2017. Retrieved November 22, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Your stumbling block wish remained unfulfilled. April 10, 2015, accessed November 22, 2019 . 

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