Memorial Signs for Elisabeth Stupe, Ellen Selbiger, Ella Stadler and Heinz Herszdörfer,
Führichstraße 52

22.10.2024 02:30 p.m.

Veranstaltung

A memorial service for Elisabeth Stupe, Ellen Selbiger, Ella Stadler and Heinz Herszdörfer took place on Tuesday, 22 October at 2.30 pm at the Grundschule an der Führichstraße 53.

At the commemorative event the initiator of the Memorial Signs, Gunda Wolf-Tinapp from the Ramersdorf-Perlach district committee spoke, as well as Susanne Köglmeier, headmistress of the primary school, City Councillor Marian Offman, representing the Lord Mayor of the City of Munich, Dr Ludwig Spaenle, Bavarian State Government Commissioner for Jewish Life and against Anti-Semitism, for Remembrance Work and Historical Heritage, followed by Dr h.c. mult. Charlotte Knobloch, President of the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria. Pupils from Heinrich Heine Gymnasium read out the biographies.

Afterwards, the Memorial Signs for Elisabeth Stupe, Ellen Selbiger, Ella Stadler and Heinz Herszdörfer were placed at their former places of residence in Ramersdorf.

Tuesday, 22 October 2024
2.30 pm
Memorial service for Elisabeth Stupe, Ellen Selbiger, Ella Stadler and Heinz Herszdörfer
Grundschule Führichstraße 53

Susanne Köglmeier, headmistress of the primary school
Councillor Marian Offman, representing the Lord Mayor of the City of Munich
Dr Ludwig Spaenle, Commissioner of the Bavarian State Government for Jewish Life and against Anti-Semitism, for Remembrance Work and Historical Heritage
Dr h.c. mult. Charlotte Knobloch, President of the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria
Gunda Wolf-Tinapp, District Committee Ramersdorf-Perlach as initiator of the Memorial Signs
Pupils from the Heinrich-Heine-Gymnasium read out the biographies

Placing of the Memorial Signs

Approx. 3.50 pm
Heinz Herszdörfer (Herschdörfer)
Wilramstraße, green area next to number 10

Approx. 4.20 pm
Elisabeth Stupe
Werinherstraße 88

Approx. 4.45 pm
Ellen Selbiger
Rosenheimer Straße 126

Approx. 5.10 pm
Ella Stadler
Rimstinger Straße 15

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Susanne Köglmeier, headmistress of the primary school

Councillor Marian Offman on behalf of the Lord Mayor of the City of Munich

Dr Ludwig Spaenle, Commissioner of the Bavarian State Government for Jewish Life and against Anti-Semitism, for Remembrance Work and Historical Heritage

Dr h.c. mult. Charlotte Knobloch, President of the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria

Gunda Wolf-Tinapp from the Ramersdorf-Perlach district committee, initiator of the Memorial Signs

Damaris Papperitz, student from the Heinrich-Heine Gymnasium

Kathrin Müller, student from the Heinrich-Heine Gymnasium

Student from the Heinrich-Heine-Gymnasium

Vinh-Khang Duong, student from the Heinrich-Heine-Gymnasium

Diya Madan Mohan, student from the Heinrich-Heine-Gymnasium

Commemoration for Elisabeth Stupe, Ellen Selbiger, Ella Stadler and Heinz Herszdörfer

Memorial Sign for Heinz Herszdörfer

Wilramstraße 10

Heinz Herszdörfer grew up in Munich, but moved to Berlin with his family in 1928. He became a merchant and converted to the Protestant faith in 1932. From 1933, he lived in Munich again for three years before returning to Berlin and moving in with his mother. The SS murdered Heinz Herszdörfer in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1939. His mother was murdered in the Theresienstadt ghetto in 1943.

Councillor Marian Offman and Gunda Wolf-Tinapp install the Memorial Sign for Heinz Herszdörfer

Vaniessa Rashid from the Ramersdorf-Perlach district committee with the Memorial Sign for Heinz Herszdörfer

Group picture with the Memorial Sign for Heinz Herszdörfer

The Memorial Sign for Heinz Herszdörfer

The Memorial Sign at Wilramstraße 10

Memorial Sign for Elisabeth Stupe

Werinherstraße 88

Elisabeth Stupe, a Jewish woman from Munich, married the Protestant Dr Georg Stupe. They had three children, who were baptised Protestant. Elisabeth Stupe also converted and became a Protestant in 1934. She died in 1936, but her eldest son Kurt Herbert survived his imprisonment in concentration camps and emigrated to the USA. The fate of the two younger siblings Helmut Georg and Rosemarie Stupe is unknown.

Installing the Memorial Sign for Elisabeth Stupe

Werner Nüßle, Angelika Ocelak, Gunda Wolf-Tinapp, the initiator of the Memorial Sign, and Christiane Metz

Gruppenfoto mit dem Erinnerungszeichen für Elisabeth Stupe

The Memorial Sign for Elisabeth Stupe

Das Erinnerungszeichen an der Werinherstraße 88

Memorial Sign for Ellen Selbiger

Rosenheimer Straße 126

Ellen Selbiger married Dr Alfred Schirokauer and had two sons with him. After their divorce, Ellen Selbiger married the dermatologist Dr Leo Selbiger. After separating from him, she lived in her own flat in Rosenheimer Straße from 1932, but later the Gestapo forced her to move into a so-called ‘Jewish flat’. In November 1941, the Gestapo deported her to Kaunas, where she was shot by the SS. Her sons were able to leave Germany and later lived in the USA.

e initiator Gunda Wolf-Tinapp from the Ramersdorf-Perlach district committee shows the Memorial Sign

The Memorial Sign for Ellen Selbiger is installed

Gunda Wolf-Tinapp with the Memorial Sign for Ellen Selbiger

Das Erinnerungszeichen an der Rosenheimerstraße 126

The Memorial Sign fo Ellen Selbiger

Memorial Sign for Ella Stadler

Rimstinger Straße 15

Ella Spandau married the Catholic typesetter Albert Stadler and had a son. After her husband divorced her in 1939, as a Jew she was at the mercy of the Nazi regime's persecution and had to perform forced labour. In 1942, Ella Stadler was arrested in Munich and deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, where she was murdered in autumn 1943. Her son survived and emigrated to the USA.