Richard Max Broosch

Richard Max Broosch is commemorated in Heidelberg by a Stolperstein set into the pavement on Bergheimer Straße. This wheelchair-accessible spot places remembrance within the city’s everyday movement.

The small, square brass plaque belongs to a memorial tradition begun by artist Gunter Demnig in the 1990s. Each stone marks the last freely chosen residence of someone persecuted or murdered under the Nazi regime. The inscriptions can include a person’s name, birth year and known fate. Heidelberg contains many such stones, forming a decentralised memorial across streets and neighbourhoods. Together, they remember Jewish people, Sinti and Roma, political prisoners, disabled people, homosexuals and others targeted by Nazi persecution. Their street-level position brings individual lives into view where homes, work and community once stood. One brass surface on Bergheimer Straße connects a single Heidelberg address with a wider European history of remembrance.