Gustav Stange
Gustav Stange is commemorated in Stuttgart by a Stolperstein outside his former home on Münchinger Straße. The wheelchair-accessible memorial marks a history of religious resistance under the Nazi regime.
Born in Stammheim, Stange worked as a shoemaker before military service confronted his Jehovah’s Witness convictions. He refused the Hitler salute, the oath to Hitler, and military weapons. A Stuttgart war court sentenced him to death for undermining military morale, and he was executed during the Second World War. The stone became Stuttgart’s first memorial to a persecuted Jehovah’s Witness. Baden-Württemberg had already banned the religious group in 1934 because members rejected Nazi ideology and refused to conform.
During his trial, Stange answered a question about everyone acting like him with a striking thought: the war would end immediately. His small stone connects one address on Münchinger Straße with the wider history of overlooked resistance.
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