On 26 May 2023, Gunter Demnig laid his 100,000th stumbling stone. The stone was laid in memory of the Nuremberg firefighter Johann Wild. His biography was 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). The seminar students researched the lives of individuals who, through their opposition to the Nazis, became victims of the National Socialist state. Johann Wild was murdered in 1941 because of his political activities.

Johann Wild was born in Nuremberg on 24 May 1892. A mechanic by trade, he worked for the Nuremberg fire brigade after the First World War. He lived with his wife Emma and daughter Elvira at Bartholomäusstrasse 29a. Until 1933, he was a member of the German Social Democratic Party, the Black, Red and Gold Banner organisation (Reichsbanner) and the Iron Front (Eiserne Front). During the war, he listened to foreign radio stations, passing on information to friends and acquaintances. In the period 1939/40, Wild also sent, using a false name, several letters to the Reich Propaganda Ministry, in which he berated Hitler and the National Socialist state and denounced their crimes. On 7 March 1941, the Nuremberg Special Court found him guilty of “broadcasting crimes” (“Rundfunkverbrechen”) and sentenced him to death. On 17 May 1941, he was guillotined in Munich-Stadelheim Prison.