Stumbling Stone Marburger Straße 9

This small, brass, memorial plaque (Stolperstein or stumbling stone) commemorates:

* Hagar Martin Brown, born 1889, arrested 1939, medical experiments, dead from consequences, 3 June 1940.

Hagar Martin Brown was born in Liberia or in South Africa in 1889. In 1901, a rich German kidnapped him and took him to work in Berlin. At that time, it was considered elegant to have a dark-skinned "Moor" in service. Two years later, the German man did not want him any longer. Brown went to Hesse where he worked as a chauffeur for other rich families.

He and Paula met in Frankfurt in 1923 and married in 1926. They had two daughters, who attended school in Frankfurt-Blockenheim. Starting in 1936, Brown and his daughters were included in the "Farbigen-Kartothek" (card file of people of color).

One day in 1939, Hagar Martin Brown was taken to the police station and beaten, almost to death. Then Nazi doctors used him in experiments to test a chemical. The resulting harm meant he had to be in a hospital until he died a year later because of the experiments. He is buried in Frankfurt’s main cemetery, in the section honoring victims of Nazi persecution.

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