Apartment/Flat

Stolperstein for Fanny and Moritz Finkelstein and their six children Klara, Bertha, Bruno, Toni, David and Wilhelm

The fate of Moritz Finkelstein and sons Bruno, Toni and David unknown. Daughter Klara managed to escape to Palestine. Fanny Finkelstein and daughter Bertha were shot in 1941, son Wilhelm was murdered in Auschwitz.

Friedrich-Wolf was born in Neuwied a.R. as the son of a Jewish merchant family in 1888. 1899-1907: he completed sports activities such as rowing, swimming, gymnastics.... 1907: he studied medicine in Tübingen. 1913: he left the Jewish religious community and considered himself a non-religious Jew. There were no more Jewish celebrations in the family circle. 1914: he was active as a troop doctor in WW1. 1921 Self-study of naturopathy and country doctor in Herchingen. 1922: Friedrich cultivated a close relationship with the bourgeois youth movement in the Stuttgart area.

The building was built at the end of the 18th century for the court gardener Johann H. Bartsch and acquired by the Jewish merchant and banker Louis Blumenthal in 1875. Louis Blumethal expanded his textile business with the first banking house built in the city. His son Martin Blumenthal continued to run the bank in 1901, after Louis Blumenthal's death, and expanded it to mortgage and insurance business. Since business was good, they were able to expand the building by two axes after 1901 and thus served as the Blumenthal family home.

Adalbert Moritz Rentschner, born 1883 in Czernowitz

Frania Rentschner (née Biegeleisen), born in 1892 in Lemberg

Heinz Leopold Rentschner, born in 1922 in Berlin

Who was Hannah Arendt?

Hannah Arendt, full name Johannah Arendt, was a Jewish German-American philosopher and publicist. She was born in Linden (modern-day Hanover) on October 14, 1906, and died in New York City on December 4, 1975. In 1933, she openly called for a fight against the National Socialists .

Residence of Hannah Arendt 1929/30