The Munich Municipality has planned the placement on the facade of the building at the address Goethestraße, 43, of commemorative signs dedicated to five Jewish residents who were subjected to persecutions and were destroyed during the times of the Third Reich. In connection with this, on Wednesday, June 24, at 18:00, a memorial event will begin at the Institute for Ethics, History and Theory of Medicine of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich on Lessingstraße, 2, about which city services reported. Upon the conclusion of the official part, at 19:00, the commemorative signs will be fixed on the facade of the house on Goethestraße.
Residents of the Ludwigsvorstadt District Will Honor the Memory of Those Who Perished During the Years of the Nazi Regime
Among those whose memory the city authorities will immortalize is the lawyer Alfred Straus, who since the 1920s represented in courts the interests of defendants in trials against members of the NSDAP, and in May 1933 was shot in the Dachau concentration camp. His mother Margarete Straus, as well as Herbert Meyer, his spouse Martha Meyer, and her son Israel Wolf were deported on November 20, 1941, together with approximately another thousand Munich residents to Kaunas in Lithuania, where they were subsequently killed. In addition, on the commemorative signs will be mentioned the name of Richard Einstein, whom the Nazi regime in July 1938 prohibited from engaging in professional activity, because of which he was deprived of means of existence; the man passed away a few months later, in November 1938, from intestinal cancer.
Representatives of the City Council and Honorary Citizens Will Speak at the Commemorative Ceremony
At the commemorative ceremony are planned speeches by city council member David Süß (representative of the faction “Alliance 90 / The Greens — Pink List”), who will replace the Chief Burgomaster, as well as the honorary citizen of Munich Charlotte Knobloch, who heads the Plenum of the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria.
The director of the Institute for Ethics, History and Theory of Medicine, Professor Georg Marckmann, will open the official part.
Brief biographical data about the deceased will be presented by Doctor Björn Mensing, Doctor Barbara Turczynski-Hartje from the district committee No. 2 (Ludwigsvorstadt — Isarvorstadt), and Privatdozent Mathias Schütz.
Musical accompaniment will be provided by the vocal quartet “Agrabla”.
The direct process of mounting the commemorative signs will be accompanied by a speech of the chairman of the district committee Benoit Blaser.
Gilded Commemorative Signs Made of Stainless Steel Are Placed on the Streets of Munich Since the Moment of the Introduction of This Practice
Similar commemorative signs began to be mounted in Munich since 2018 in those places where previously resided people subjected to persecutions and destruction on the part of the National Socialists. Information plaques and steles are manufactured from polished gilded stainless steel. Onto them are applied the key dates of life, information about the fate of the person, and, if available, a portrait photograph. The objects are fixed in the form of wall plates on the facades of buildings or installed as separate steles on plots of public use.
Source: Munich Municipality
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