Law firm - Dr. Hugo Hauser

Hugo Karl Hauser was born in Offenburg on 26 August 1880 and after completing his law studies, Dr. Hugo Karl Hauser came to Baden-Baden in 1908 as a partner in the law firm of Dr. Ernst Herrmann. under his leadership from the mid-1920s, the law firm developed into one of the most important in the city.The seizure of power by the National Socialists and their anti-Jewish sentiments did not go unnoticed by the law firm.The firm's clients stayed away and turnover barely reached 50% of the old level.The law on admission to the bar of April 7, 1933 was intended to revoke the admission of Jewish lawyers.The only thing that prevented the plan from being carried out at the time was the exception anchored in the law („Frontkämpferprivileg“).Dr. Hugo Karl Hauser was seriously wounded in the First World War and returned to Baden-Baden highly decorated in 1918.However, with the „Fünften Verordnung zum Reichsbürgergesetz“ of September 27, 1938, the admission of the remaining licensed attorneys was revoked as of November 30, 1938.Dr. Hugo Karl Hauser was banned from practising his profession, and only 172 lawyers were still admitted as "Jewish consultants" who were only authorized to represent Jews - one of whom was Dr. Hugo Karl Hauser.In the course of the Reich Pogrom Night of 1938, Dr. Hugo Karl Hauser and his son Hans (born 1913) were sent to Dachau concentration camp. Hans Hauser emigrated to the USA in April 1939. Emigration attempts for himself and his wife Johannna and son Hans failed. In October 1940, in the course of the expulsion of Jews from Baden and Palatinate, Dr. Hugo Karl Hauser and his wife were deported to the Gurs concentration camp in southern France and, after further stays in the camp, transported to Auschwitz via the Drancy concentration camp on 20 May 1944, where they were murdered on 30 May 1944.

Three stumbling stones at Vincentistr.26 in Baden Baden commemorate the fate of the Dr. Hugo Karl Hauser family.