List of stumbling blocks in Stockach

The Stolpersteine ​​in Stockach are special paving stones in sidewalks that are intended to commemorate the victims of the National Socialist dictatorship in Stockach in the Baden-Württemberg district of Konstanz in Germany .

Stumbling blocks

The Stolpersteine are a project by the artist Gunter Demnig . These small memorial plaques are intended to commemorate the fate of the people who were murdered, deported , expelled or driven to suicide during National Socialism .

The stumbling blocks are cubic concrete blocks with an edge length of ten centimeters, on the top of which there is an individually labeled brass plate . As a rule, they are set into the pavement at the same level in front of the last freely chosen houses of the Nazi victims . There are now over 56,000 stones (as of December 2015) not only in Germany, but also in 18 other European countries. The Stolpersteine ​​are the largest decentralized memorial in the world.

Laying stumbling blocks

Main street No. 8

Hermann Weil

HERMANN WEIL JR LIVED HERE / JG. 1892 / ARRESTED 11/9/1938 / DACHAU KZ / FLUCHT 1938 USA / SURVIVED
The Weil family ran a large textile specialist shop in Stockach. Hermann Weil, donor of the memorial for the 111th Infantry Regiment in Stadtgarten, was a member of the jester's court and was a member of the local council and the citizens' committee. In 1938 he and his wife had to leave Stockach. Hermann Weil was deported to the Dachau concentration camp . After his wife was released, they both fled via Switzerland to Portugal and from there to the USA .
Hermann Weil returned to Stockach for a short visit in 1962.

Jenny Weil

LIVED HERE / JENNY WEIL / GEB. BECAUSE / JG 1871 / ESCAPE 1938 USA / SURVIVED

Johanna Weil

HERE LIVED / JOAN BECAUSE / GEB. ALEXANDER / JG. 1898 / ESCAPE 1938 USA / SURVIVED

Main street number 13

Erich Erlanger

LIVED HERE / DR. ERICH ERLANGER / JG. 1901 / ARRESTED 11/9/1935 / DACHAU CONCENTRATION CAMP / FLIGHT ???? USA / SURVIVED
Erich, son of Ida Erlanger, had to close his doctor's practice and was deported to the Dachau concentration camp. After his short-term release, his wife managed to escape to the USA.

Ida Erlanger

LIVED HERE / IDA ERLANGER / GEB. FRANK / JG. 1874 / VOR DEPORTATION / TOT 11.12.1940
Ida was the wife of the doctor Isidor Erlanger, who died in 1926. She died of a heart attack in 1940, shortly before she was abducted to Gurs, France .

Johanna Erlanger

LIVED HERE / JOHANNA LIEBHERR / BED. ERLANGER / JG. 1888 / FLUCHT 1936 CHILE / SURVIVED
Johanna Erlanger, daughter of Ida Erlanger, fled to Chile with her husband .

Lieselotte Erlanger

LIESELOTTE ERLANGER LIVED HERE / JG. 1915 / EINGEWIESEN 1940 / HEILANSTALT GRAFENECK / ERMORDET ??. ??. 1940
Lieselotte, Ida's daughter, was murdered in 1940 in the Grafeneck camp near Gomadingen .

Main street number 20

Heinz Cohn

HEINZ COHN / JG LIVED HERE . 1886 / FLUCHT 1936 / USA / SURVIVED
Heinz Cohn was born in Posen in 1886 and came to Stockach in 1913, where he ran the Obere Apotheke as a pharmacist . He served Germany in World War I and was awarded the Iron Cross and the Order of the Zähringer Lion for this. The member of the court of fools, chairman of the music club, board member of the football and ski club and chairman of the touring club was considered a great benefactor in Stockach. After he was banned from the profession by the city administration in 1934 and forced to give up his business a year later, he emigrated to the USA in 1936 with his wife Margot (1891–1972) . In 1958 they both returned to Stockach. Heinz Cohn died in 1959 and is buried in the Loreto cemetery.

Margot Cohn

Tuttlinger Strasse No. 8

Alfred Rothschild

LIVED HERE / ALFRED ROTHSCHILD / JG. 1901 / FLUCHT 1939 / SURVIVT
Alfred Rothschild had been a notary since 1927 . He lived in the district court building. From 1933 he was no longer allowed to practice his profession. Shortly before the deportation to Gurs, the family was able to flee to the USA.

Fanny Rothschild

LIVED HERE / FANNY ROTHSCHILD / BED. WOLF / JG. 1905 / ESCAPE 1939 / USA / SURVIVED

Trude Renate Rothschild

LIVED HERE / TRUDE RENATE / ROTHSCHILD / JG. 1929 / ESCAPE 1939 / USA / SURVIVED

Wolfgang Walter Rothschild

LIVED HERE / WOLFGANG WALTER / ROTHSCHILD / JG. 1932 / ESCAPE 1939 / USA / SURVIVED

literature

• Hartmut Rathke: Stockach in the age of the world wars . Ed .: City of Stockach. 1st edition. werk two Print + Medien Konstanz GmbH, Konstanz 2004, ISBN 3-00-014732-2 , p. 219 ff .

Web links

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

• Project website by the artist Gunter Demnig
• “ Stumbling blocks in front of four houses ” in the Südkurier on October 18, 2006
• “ Stumbling blocks will be laid on October 4th ” in the Südkurier on September 3rd, 2007

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Andreas Nefzger: The trace layer. In: FAZ.net . February 7, 2014, accessed December 16, 2014 . 

 Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap