Stolperstein für Hans Lebrecht

The Stolperstein für Hans Lebrecht is a small brass-plated stone set into the pavement in Ulm. The stone commemorates Hans Lebrecht, a member of Ulm’s Jewish Lebrecht family.

Hans Lebrecht was born in 1915 and left school one year before graduation under Nazi persecution. His family fled Ulm after the Nazi regime’s rise. Hans later emigrated to Palestine with his wife, Tosca Loewy. The Lebrecht family also shaped Ulm’s cultural life through music and leather manufacturing. Wilhelm Lebrecht played the viola in a local quartet.

The Stolpersteine project places memorial stones at people’s last freely chosen residences. Each stone links an individual story to the pavement of a lived place. In Ulm, this stone recalls Jewish lives affected by Nazi persecution. The project also commemorates other groups persecuted under the Nazi regime, including Roma, disabled people, and political dissidents. Its stones keep personal histories within ordinary streets.

Hans’s relatives later settled in the United States, Chile, and Brazil after leaving Germany. Their destinations mark a wider family dispersal. The brass surface marks a memorial that remains part of Ulm’s everyday landscape. Hans’s name connects pavement, family, and persecution.