Apartment/Flat

Bertha Grün was the wife of Rabbi Dr. Samuel Grün, who was rabbi in Oberdorf am Ipf  from 1887 - 1893. Bertha Grün, née Zeisel was born on December 12, 1851 in Burgbergstein in Mähren  Bertha Zeisel's parents were Eduard Zeisel von Lomnitz and his wife Betty, née Häutler, remarried Schick. Berta Zeisel and Samuel Grün married on February 13, 1877 in Tischnowitz near Brünn. The couple had two children - Eduard, born on June 20, 1880 in Znojmo and Irma, born on October 8, 1881 in Znojmo.

Karl Adler was born on January 25, 1890 in Buttenhausen, a district of the municipality of Münsingen. In 1902, he began his training at the Protestant Teachers' Seminary in Esslingen. After his teacher's examination, he was employed as a head teacher and teacher at an Israelite school. In 1910 he began his studies at the Royal Conservatory in Stuttgart. He then became a singer at the Stuttgart Court Theater. In 1940, he, his wife and his parents emigrated to the USA. From 1946 to 1968, he worked as a music professor at Yeshiva University, a conservative Jewish university.

The first rabbi of the newly founded Jewish community in Stuttgart moved into the apartment in Lange Stra e sometime in the 1830s. Before he was appointed district rabbi in 1834, he lived and worked as a house rabbi with the family of the commercial councillor and banker Nathan Wolf Kaulla at Poststraße 6 (today: Alte Poststraße).

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 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.

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.

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.

Schooldays

Fritz Hirschfeld grew up in Berlin and attended the Königliches Wilhelms-Gymnasium, which he graduated from in 1905.

Studies

He then studied law in Heidelberg, Marburg and Berlin, where he received his doctorate in law. He then became a court assessor at the Prussian Ministry of Justice.