Otto Horns

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Otto Ludwig Hörner (born February 28, 1884 in Karlsruhe , † January 20, 1945 in Ettlingen ) was a German locksmith and kiosk owner. He was named Righteous Among the Nations .

Life

Otto Ludwig Hörner was born the son of a day laborer and stone mason on February 28, 1884 in Karlsruhe and grew up in the southern part of the city . He trained as a locksmith and married Margarete Emma Krause in 1913. Around 1925 he took over a kiosk in the southern part of Karlsruhe. Margarete died in 1935. Hörner had a weekend house in a garden settlement on the northern outskirts of Ettlingen , in which he hid several Jews from 1942 to protect them from deportation . From 1942 the Loebels couple and their two children Hannelore and Ellen lived in the weekend house. From 1944 two boys, Paul and Jakob, who were able to escape from a children's home in Berlin, also lived in the weekend house. Her mother hid with Rudolf Zogelman . Von Hörner's sister-in-law took care of the people in hiding. Hörner died on January 20, 1945 shortly before Ettlingen was liberated by the French troops. In August 1945 the path leading to the weekend house was named after Hörner. On November 27, 2002, Hörner and Zogelman were honored by the Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations. A plate on the cemetery wall in Ettlingen recalls the history of Hörner.

Honors

  • 1945: The way in the garden settlement in Ettlingen is renamed Otto-Hörner-Weg
  • 2001: a street in Ettlingen is named after him
  • 2001: Righteous Among the Nations, file no. 9845

literature

  • Josef Werner: Karlsruhe 1945: Under swastika, tricolor and stars and stripes . Ed .: City of Karlsruhe, City Archives. Karlsruhe: G. Braun. 1985. ( available online (PDF))
  • Josef Werner: Swastika and Star of David - The Fate of the Karlsruhe Jews in the Third Reich . Ed .: City of Karlsruhe, City Archives. 2nd edition Karlsruhe: Badenia Verlag 1990. ISBN 3-76 17-0299-X . ( available online (PDF))
  • Israel Gutman , Daniel Fraenkel, Jackob Borut (ed.): Lexicon of the Righteous Among the Nations - Germans and Austrians . Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag . 2005. ISBN 3-89244-900-7 . S. 154. ( available on Google Books )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Schuhladen-Krämer: Otto Ludwig Hörner. In: stadtlexikon.karlsruhe.de. City of Karlsruhe, 2016, accessed on June 2, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Otto Hörner's garden shed. In: Baden 18–45. Project Lernort Kislau, accessed on June 2, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Horns, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hörner, Otto Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German holder of the award "Righteous Among the Nations"
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1945
Place of death Ettlingen