List of stumbling blocks in Weingarten (Württemberg)

The list of the stumbling blocks in Weingarten results by artist Gunter Demnig laid stumbling blocks in the city Weingarten on in Upper Swabia.

Trip Threats

address	Surname	inscription	image
Abteistrasse 5	Trip threshold	FORCED LABOR IN WEINGARTEN 1942 TO 1945 1135 FORCED LABOR IN THE "RUSSEN CAMP" ABTEISTR. 5 166 MEN - 126 WOMEN 156 DEAD FROM EASTERN EUROPE ARE BURIED IN THE CEMETERY
Abteistrasse 5	Trip threshold	BELOW THE BASILICA WITH ITS PASSIONS RELIQUY LIT AND DIE PEOPLE, LORD, HAVE PEACE FOR OUR AND GIVE THE DEAD FREEDOM IN YOUR ETERNAL APARTMENTS

Stumbling block

image	inscription	Location	Life
	JOACHIM BRUNNER JG LIVED HERE . 1884 IN THE RESISTANCE ARRESTED 1943 'sedition' WELZHEIM 1944 DACHAU MURDERED 1945 MAUTHAUSEN	Wilhelmstrasse 30 ⊙	Joachim Brunner was born in Steinach in Bad Waldsee in 1884 . In 1912 he moved to Weingarten. He was a lathe operator by profession, but earned his living as a traveling trader. First he moved from place to place on a bicycle, later on a motorbike, and sold etc. a. Buttons, elastic bands and work clothes. He was married and had two daughters. In 1919 he was a candidate for the SPD in the municipal council elections. From 1929 to 1936 the family lived at Wilhelmstrasse 30, then at Bachstrasse 1. In 1937 Brunner was banned from the passport, which was considered a “criminal record”. He was considered a Nazi opponent and was arrested in September 1943 together with other members of a card group in Cafe Haimayer. At least two of those arrested, Sepp Brei and Joachim Brunner, were imprisoned in the Welzheim concentration camp . Brei survived the Nazi regime and in 1945 was appointed acting mayor of the Baienfurt community . Brunner was transferred to Dachau concentration camp on April 26 and to Mauthausen concentration camp on August 17, 1944 . His prisoner numbers were 67155 (in Dachau) and 89200 (in Mauthausen). He was killed on March 12, 1945.

Laying date

Stolperstein and stumbling block were laid by Gunter Demnig personally on April 17th, 2013.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thea Thomiczek: Joachim Brunner: Unbequemer Quergänger , SWR , June 17, 2014, accessed on April 26, 2018
2. ^ Uwe Hertrampf: Weingarten: Joachim Brunner (concentration camp victims from the workers), Stolperstein Wilhelmstr. 30 , Denkort am Ravensburg Memorial Trail, accessed on April 26, 2018

Web links

• Article in the Schwäbische Zeitung
• Picture gallery of the Schwäbische Zeitung