Memorial Sign for Franz Xaver Stützinger,
Volkartstraße 71

Franz Xaver Stützinger - known to his friends as ‘Xyde’ - worked as a scaffolder and lived with his wife Margarete and their son in Volkartstraße. He had already joined the Communist Party in the 1920s and was soon under observation by the police. In 1931, Franz Xaver Stützinger was arrested and convicted of ‘high treason’.

In 1933, he was one of the many communists who were arrested immediately after the Nazis came to power and deported to the newly opened Dachau concentration camp. In 1935, the SS suspected him of smuggling political writings into the camp and tortured him to death. The SS entered ‘suicide’ as the cause of death on the death certificate. Franz Xaver Stützinger was buried in Munich's Westfriedhof.

Wednesday, 21 July 2021
6 pm
Memorial ceremony for Franz Xaver Stützinger followed by the handover of the Memorial Sign
Volkartstraße 71

• Councillor Simone Burger, representing the Lord Mayor of the City of Munich
• Ernst Grube, survivor and President of Lagergemeinschaft Dachau e.V.
• Benedikt Weyerer, Geschichtswerkstatt Neuhausen
• Babette Häckel, great-granddaughter of Franz Xaver Stützinger, and Simone Burger hand over the Memorial Sign
• Friedbert Mühldorfer, Association of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime, presents the life story
• Jonathan Häckel reads from the memoirs of his grandfather ‘Ferry’ Stützinger
• Anna Hanusch, Chairwoman of the District Committee Neuhausen - Nymphenburg

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