Stumbling Stones in Chemnitz
Günter Neubauer
Günter Neubauer
Born: 07.05.1929
Died: 08.07.1940
Godfather: Udo Schreyer
Installation location:
Chemnitz-Altendorf hospital grounds, Flemmingstraße now SFZStumbling stone laying on:
5 December 2019
Life path
While researching his ancestors, family researcher Udo Schreyer from Chemnitz discovered a sad chapter about his great-uncle of the second degree.
his great-uncle 2nd degree: Günter Heinz Neubauer was born on 7 May 1929 as the illegitimate son of the knitting machine operator
Helene Neubauer (1901-1996) and the labourer Karl Friedrich Resch (1898-1944) in the Chemnitz Women's Clinic.
Günter grew up with his mother and grandparents in idyllic Oberhermersdorf (now Adelsberg) until he was seven years old.
(today Adelsberg) until the age of seven.
Due to a deferral of his school examination twice, his mother was asked to have her son
to have her son examined further. With the diagnosis of feeblemindedness, he was sent to the
he was committed to the Chemnitz-Altendorf State Educational Centre. Günter was a small boy with a slender build, light blonde hair
light blonde hair and blue eyes. He liked music and played melodies on the harmonica. In the years that followed
his mother was only allowed a few visits from her son.
On 30 May 1940, he was transferred to the Arnsdorf sanatorium and nursing home. Just six weeks later, on 8 July 1940, he was transferred
transferred to Pirna-Sonnenstein with numerous other patients and gassed on the same day as part of "Aktion T4"
gassed. Günter Neubauer was eleven years old.
Stumbling stones in Chemnitz
It is a project against forgetting: stumbling stones have been laid in Chemnitz every year since 2007.
Embedded in the pavement, the memorial stones commemorate the tragic fates of fellow citizens who were persecuted, deported, murdered or driven to their deaths during the National Socialist regime.
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