KulturRegion Stuttgart

From 1914 to 1918, Paul Ottenheimer (born in Stuttgart in 1873, died in Darmstadt in 1951) lived in this place and worked as court conductor at the former court theater in Darmstadt. On June 2, 1914, he was awarded the title of "Hofrat" and on March 13, 1917, the Knight's Cross of the Order of Ludwig.

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.

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 (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.

• 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.

Painter, Adolf Hölzel pupil; numerous exhibitions

Photographer, partner of Robert Cappa, run over by a tank during the Spanish Civil War.

Josef Lehmann lived here with his wife Flora Lehmann, née Lauchheimer, and their daughters Clara, Jella and Bertha.

Josef Lehmann lived here with his wife Flora Lehmann, née Lauchheimer, and their daughters Clara, Jella and Bertha.

Time referee for the “Stuttgarter Kickers”; he was taken to the Mauthausen concentration camp and, according to the usual message, shot there on October 1, 1942 “while fleeing”