On 26 May 2023, Gunter Demnig laid ten stumbling stones in Nuremberg, five of them in memory of individuals who, through their opposition to the Nazis, became victims of the National Socialist state. The biographies were researched by a P-Seminar at Nuremberg’s Hermann Kesten College, led by Dr Maren Janetzko and Dr Pascal Metzger (Geschichte Für Alle / History for Everyone). One of the biographies was that of Bernhard Hacker, who was murdered in Dachau.

Bernhard Hacker was born on 2 January 1908 in Nuremberg. Prior to 1933 he was a member of the Communist Youth Organisation and the Roter Frontkämpferbund (Red Front Fighters’ League). As a result of his continued involvement in these organisations after Hitler came to power, Hacker was a prisoner in Dachau concentration camp from 11 August 1933 until March 1934, where he was placed under “protective custody”. From May 1934 onwards he worked as fitter for the company Leistritz. In 1936 he married his wife Marie and lived with her at Seuffertstrasse 16.

On 29 September 1939, in the “Wilhelmsdorfer Bräustüble” restaurant at Seuffertstrasse 10, Hacker allegedly insulted Hitler and the Nazi Party during an argument with a member of the Nazi SA. The Nazi special court in Nuremberg sentenced him to nine months’ imprisonment in the Nuremberg jail. After his release, he was placed once again under “protective custody” by the Nuremberg Gestapo and taken to Dachau. He was murdered there on 21 September 1942.