Otto Hirsch

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Otto Hirsch was born in Stuttgart on January 9, 1885. He began his law studies at the University of Heidelberg in 1902. After his second state examination, he joined the Stuttgart city administration as a council assessor. His responsibilities included construction and water law as well as matters relating to the electricity industry. In 1919, he moved to the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Interior as a rapporteur for shipping issues, electricity supply and hydropower utilization and was very quickly promoted to Ministerialrat.

Fritz Bauer

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Fritz Bauer was born in Stuttgart on July 16, 1903, the son of the Jewish textile wholesaler Ludwig Bauer and his wife Ella Bauer, née Hirsch. Together with his parents and his sister Margot, who was three years younger, he spent much of his childhood and youth in a house at Wiederholdstra e 10 in Stuttgart, which unfortunately no longer exists today (a memorial stele was erected opposite it in 2024). He spent his secondary school years at the Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium in the west of Stuttgart, where he also graduated in 1921.

Fig tree family

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The wealthy and respected Feigenbaum family lived here until 1938:

  • Emil Feigenbaum, b. 1893
  • Klara Feigenbaum, née Reis, b. 1892
  • Kurt Feigenbaum, b. 1921
  • Werner Feigenbaum, born 1929

Emil Feigenbaum was a businessman and co-owner of the company Lippmann Wolf und Sohn at Schwieberdingerstr. 62. The company ran a wholesale trade in old goods and had to be sold to Otto Lang and Hans Maas in August 1937.

In April 1938, the family also sold the house in Franklinstra e. In October 1938, they managed to escape to Belgium.

Dr. Walter Pintus

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Dr. Walter Pintus (born on 27 September 1880 in Berlin) lived and worked at Mathildenstraße 6 in Ludwigsburg from 1905 to 1938. He was a respected citizen of the town for decades and a popular general practitioner and obstetrician. In 1906, he married Helene, née Jacobi, three years his junior and the daughter of a Stuttgart liqueur manufacturer. In 1907 their daughter Lotte was born, who converted to the Protestant church in 1931 on the occasion of her marriage to the lawyer Dr. Hugo Weisslig. Dr.

Max Horkheimer

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Max Horkheimer was born on February 14, 1895 at what was then Militärstr. 19, now Breitscheidstr. His parents were Babette Horkheimer and Moritz - baptized Moses-Horkheimer. His father Moritz Horkheimer was a wealthy and respected entrepreneur who made new cotton fabrics from old ones. In 1917, the town of Zuffenhausen, together with his neighbor, Samuel Rothscild, awarded him honorary citizenship, as he had shown and rendered the best possible service to the town and its families, especially the war families.

Synagogue (Cannstatt)

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In 1875, the community acquired Baron von Eichthal's riding school at König-Karl-Straße (then Königsstraße) 49 and had it converted into a synagogue according to plans by the Cannstatt architect Christian Weisslig. Although not a magnificent building like the Stuttgart synagogue of 1861, the project was a sign of identification and commitment for the congregation of just over 250 members at the time.

The community remained independent after the unification of Cannstatt and Stuttgart in 1905; it reached its peak shortly before the turn of the century with almost 500 people.

Fabric wholesale - Bank business - Leopold Epstein

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In the address book of the trading bodies and factories of the imperial and royal capital and residence city of Vienna, then of several provincial cities for the year 1845, the following entry can be found: Mr. Epstein Lazar, from Prague, under the company name recorded here and in Prague: L. Epstein;  has the defeat of his k. k. privil. The brothers Israel and Ephraim Epstein from Prague laid the foundations for the economic rise of the Epstein family towards the end of the 18th century. They specialized in the printing of cotton fabrics, known as calico printing.

New Jewish cemetery Děčín-Folknářy / Tetschen-Falkendorf

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The New Jewish Cemetery in the Folknářy district was built to replace the Jewish cemetery in the Rozbělesy district of Děčín, which was closed in 1952 as part of the expansion of the industrial area. The remains from this cemetery were exhumed and transferred together with the gravestones to the New Jewish Cemetery in Děčín-Folknářy, which was part of the municipal cemetery (Volksanger). The Jewish area on the Volksanger was completely cleared around 1970.