Memorial Sign for Dr. Siegfried Lichtenstaedter,
Arcisstraße 39

In honour of Dr. Siegfried Lichtenstaedter, a commemorative event was held at the Museum Brandhorst on Tuesday, 6 December 2022. The retired Royal Bavarian Senior Government Councilor had been deported by the Gestapo to the Theresienstadt ghetto on 23 June 1942, where he died on 6 December 1942 as a result of the catastrophic living conditions.

In addition to Achim Hochdörfer, director of the Museum Brandhorst, and councilor Kathrin Abele, representing the mayor of the City of Munich, spoke Prof. Götz Aly, historian, and Geoff Kronik, a relative of Dr. Siegfried Lichtenstaedter. Afterwards, the Memorial Sign for Dr. Siegfried Lichtenstaedter was installed at his former residence at Arcisstraße 39, in the presence of Rabbi Shmuel Aharon Brodman.

In the evening, there was a reading in memory of Dr. Siegfried Lichtenstaedter in the Stadtarchiv (Munich city archives) with Dr. h.c. Charlotte Knobloch, President of the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria, and Dr. Manfred Heimers, Head of the Munich city archives. This was followed by a panel discussion with Ellen Presser, Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria, Geoff Kronik, a relative of Dr. Siegfried Lichtenstaedter, Dr. Andreas Heusler, Institute for Urban History and Remembrance Culture, Cultural Department of the City of Munich, as well as historians Götz Aly and Dr. Kristina Milz.