Stumbling Stone Hochbergweg 1

This Stolperstein / stumbling stone commemorates

* Dr. Fritz Dalen, born 1880, humiliated / deprived of his rights before deportation, killed himself 1 March 1942.

Friedrich Dalen (called Fritz) earned his doctorate in law from the University of Leipzig in 1906 and became a practicing lawyer and notary. In 1936, his permission to practice was rescinded under the Nazis’ anti-semitic laws.

In 1937 he was apparently forced to move to a rental apartment at Hochbergweg 2, across the street from the apartment he had owned since 1920.

With the threat of deportation, he killed himself in March 1942. He had never married. His brother Kurd Dalen, also a lawyer, had killed himself the year before. Fritz Dalen left his property, including an art collection, to his housekeeper, Wally Schentke, but the documents were destroyed in a fire and she received nothing.

A stolperstein for Dr. Kurd Dalen is at Drakestraße 59 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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