Herold family

Adolf Herold lived here with his family; he came from Schopfloch in central Franconia and had started out in Metzingen in 1910 as a seller of textile goods. In 1922, he opened a knitwear factory at Schillerstra e 13. His wife Jenny, née Goldschmidt, was born on October 28, 1880 in Vacha. Adolf Herold was friends with the Metzingen factory owner Hugo F. Boss for many years.

In 1933, Adolf Herold was forced to resign from the Metzingen 'Schwäbischen Albverein'. In 1938, he was named in a regional newspaper as 'Metzingen's only Jew'. In connection with the events of the November pogrom in 1938, in which the Herold house was the target of an attack by National Socialists, Adolf Herold was taken into protective custody and sent to Dachau concentration camp. After his return, the family moved to Stuttgart. Adolf Herold was forced to sell his house and the company in Metzingen, as the town was to be made "free of Jews". The Herold couple's children were able to emigrate from Stuttgart just in time in 1940: the eldest daughter Gertrud and son Walter emigrated to the USA, while the younger daughter Gretl had already emigrated to Palestine with her husband Herbert Geballe in 1935. The machines and furnishings of Adolf Herold's knitwear factory were taken over by the knitwear factory Adolf Baur from Metzingen in 1939; the residential and factory building came into the possession of the doctor Dr. Walter Scharnbeck (deceased in 1980), as the town wanted the doctor to remain in Metzingen. The Herold couple were no longer able to emigrate; Adolf and Jenny Herold were on the waiting list for immigration to America, but were deported to Riga in 1941 and perished in 1942.

In the 1980s, the house in Schillerstraße was sold to new owners after having been rented out by the Dr. Scharnbeck family for several years.

Walter Herold died in New Hampshire (USA) at the age of 96.