Stumbling Stones Große Straße 15

This small brass plaque (Stolperstein or Stumbling Stone), which was laid on 21-11-2019 commemorates:
Oskar Reincke
(born 1907, beheaded on 10 July 1944)

Communist Oskar Henry Max Reincke joined the Communist Youth Organisation at the age of 17. At 25, he joined the KPD and was sent to Flensburg to take charge of the KPD sub-district there. Barely a year later, he was arrested and held in concentration camps until 1935. After his release, he returned to his native Hamburg with his wife and joined the Bästelein-Jacob-Abshagen group in 1939, but was arrested again three years later on charges of preparing high treason. On 3 May 1944, he was sentenced to death by beheading and executed at Hamburg's Holstenglacis prison on 10 July 1944. Of the Bästelein-Jacob-Abshagen Group, a total of 70 out of about 300 members were executed.

"Stolpersteine" is an art project in Europe by Gunter Demnig to commemorate victims of National Socialism (Nazism).
Stolpersteine (Stumbling Stones) are small, 10x10cm brass plaques placed in the pavement in front of the last voluntary residence or sometimes the hiding address of (mostly Jewish) victims murdered by the Nazis. Each plaque is stamped with the victim's name, date of birth, and place (often a Concentration Camp) and date of death. In this way, Gunter Demnig gives an individual memorial to each victim. One stone, one name, one person. He quotes the Talmud: "A person is forgotten only when his or her name is forgotten."

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