Stumbling Stone Drakestraße 59

This Stolperstein or stumbling stone commemorates:

* Dr. Kurd Dalen, born 1884, humiliated / deprived of rights, went into hiding, killed himself 15 September 1941.

In 1913, Kurd Dalen earned a Doctor of Law degree in Heidelberg. He became a corporate lawyer. In 1930, he was Director of Mercedes Typewriter and Calculator Works in Zella-Mehlis.

He married Margarete Lukszat, who was not subject to persecution under the Nuremberg laws. (She survived.) But because they had no children, his mixed marriage was not considered "privileged" and could not protect him from deportation. He, his wife, and his mother moved to Siegsdorf in Bavaria. His mother died there in 1939. Also in 1939, Kurd Dalen was recorded in the census. He killed himself in 1941 before he could be deported. The next year, his older brother Fritz also killed himself.

A stolperstein for Dr. Fritz Dalen, also a lawyer, is at Hochbergweg 1 in Berlin.

"Stolpersteine" is an art project for 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 of (mostly Jewish) victims who were murdered by the Nazis. Each plaque is engraved with the victim’s name, date of birth, and place (mostly a concentration camp) and date of death. By doing this, Gunter Demnig gives an individual memorial to each victim. One stone, one name, one person. He cites the Talmud: "A human being is forgotten only when his or her name is forgotten."

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