Karl Bruder
In Frankfurt, Karl Bruder’s Stolperstein appears as a small brass plaque set into the pavement. These stones commemorate people persecuted under the Nazi regime. This one recalls a resident of Nieder Eschbach, a Frankfurt district, and places his history within an ordinary street.
Karl Bruder was born in Nieder Eschbach on 8 February 1917, to Christian Wilhelm Bruder and Katharina Hess. In 1940, local police took him from home after a neighbour’s denunciation. At the University Clinic in Gießen, Nazi authorities forcibly sterilised him under a law targeting alleged hereditary diseases because of epilepsy. He later worked as a gardener and in agriculture, yet ridicule and isolation followed his return. His marriage to Anna Menacher began in 1958. The pavement memorial keeps his life visible after his death on 15 May 1974. Jürgen Karl Bruder and Inge Appel from Nieder Eschbach funded the plaque.
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