Eduard Pfeiffer

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With great personal commitment to the creation of housing and other social facilities, the banker, reformer and cooperative Pfeiffer contributed with major projects between 1875 and 1915 to ensuring that Stuttgart remained a community without major social problems even during industrialization.

Apartment Fred Uhlman

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Artist and writer, the only surviving member of his family. In his autobiography  „The Making of an Englishman“,  which was published in London in 1960 but not translated into German until 1992 after his death, he  describes his life, his origins and family, and his transformation into an Englishman alongside his wife, Lady Diana Croft, whom he met in April 1936. 

Käte Hamburger

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Käte Hamburger (1896–1992) was an important Germanist and literary theorist who habilitated at the Technical University of Stuttgart after her exile in Sweden and subsequently worked there as an unpaid professor.

Editorial office Stuttgarter Neues Tagblatt, workplace of Jella Lepman, née Lehmann

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In the 1920s, Jella Lepman, née Lehmann, worked as the first female editor of the liberal Stuttgarter Neues Tagblatt. She wrote articles on social policy and established the supplement „Die Frau in Haus, Beruf und Gesellschaft“ in 1927. A special edition of the newspaper was published for the opening of the Tagblatt Tower on November 5, 1928. For this, Jella Lepman wrote the article "Die Stuttgarterin von heute".

Jewish Art Community (Stuttgart)

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  • The Stuttgart Jüdische Kunstgemeinschaft was founded in 1933 as a department of the Jüdisches Lehrhaus in Stuttgart by the musicologist Karl Adler . His brother-in-law Leopold Marx, a writer, and Otto Hirsch, a lawyer, were also involved in its founding.
  • It only existed for five years from 1933 to 1938, before the November pogroms put an end to Jewish cultural work in Stuttgart.

International reading room for children, organized by Jella Lepman, née Lehmann

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At the age of 17, Jella Lepman, née Lehmann, organized an international reading room for the children of foreign workers at the Waldorf-Astoria cigarette factory here in 1908.

Her passion for children's and young people's literature lasted a lifetime. In 1949, she co-founded and initiated the International Youth Library in Munich.