On 30 April 2025, the Nuremberg Football Club had two stumbling stones laid for Bruno Einstein and his wife Anna. Bruno Einstein was a member of the 1st FC Nürnberg since 1 October 1926. On 30 April 1933, the Club removed him from their membership list. The Einsteins fled to France, where Bruno became part of the Resistance. He was therefore executed on 20 December 1943. Anna came back to Nuremberg at the end of her life.

Bruno Einstein was born on 14 April 1894 in Obbach near Schweinfurt as the third child of the Jewish couple Dr. Theodor Einstein and his wife Johanna (née Harzfelder). In 1915, the family moved to Nuremberg. Bruno Einstein worked as a shop assistant and later as a business man. In the First World War he served with the Bavarian Aviator Group (Bayerischer Fliegerersatzabteilung) in Schleißheim.

On 15 December 1921, he married the protestant Anna Margarete Weiher from Eschenau. The couple had no children and last lived at Peter-Henlein-Strasse 48.

After Hitler came to power, Bruno and Anna Margarete Einstein left Germany. The registration office of the city of Nuremberg noted on 16 September 1933: “address unknown” – and shortly thereafter, on 4 October: “moved – destination known”.

At that time, the Einsteins were already in France. There Bruno Einstein joined the Foreign Legion in order to receive French citizenship. From December 1939 to October 1940 he was stationed as a volunteer in Algeria. Afterwards he moved to Billom in the Region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. There he worked for Pierre Pottier, leader of the resistance movement in the Billom district.

Einstein was accepted as a fighter in the resistance group of the Pottier factory. He belonged to the so-called Forces françaises de l’intérieur (F.F.I.). On 16 December 1943, German soldiers destroyed the resistance network in Billom. 45 resistance fighters were arrested: 20 of them, including Bruno Einstein, were taken to the barracks of the 92nd Infantry Regiment of Clermont-Ferrand, tortured and then executed on 20 December 1943. In 1947, Bruno Einstein officially received the title of honor “Mort pour la France” (“Died for France”).

At the beginning of 1968, Anna Margarete Einstein returned to Nuremberg. She lived at the home for the aged at Veilhofstrasse 34 and died on 26 June 1971 in Nuremberg.