| Location of stone: Maxtorgraben 31 | District: Gärten hinter der Veste |
| Sponsor: 1. FC Nürnberg (Nuremberg Football Club) | Laying of stone: 30 April 2026 |
Biography
At a stumbling stone ceremony sponsored by the 1. FC Nürnberg (Nuremberg Football Club), two stones were laid on 30 April 2026 for Marie and Karl Marcus at Maxtorgraben 31. Karl and Marie were murdered in Riga-Jungfernhof.
Marie Friedlein was born on 8 September 1904 in Nuremberg. She was the daughter of Arnold and Karolina Friedlein, née Steinberger. Her father ran a hat factory warehouse.
Marie Friedlein became a member of the Tennis Department of the 1. FC Nuremberg on 1 March 1930. On 30 April 1933, the Club withdrew her membership.
On 25 March 1938, she married Karl Siegbert Marcus in Fürth. He came from Gardelegen and was born there on 11 September 1900. His parents were Louis and Franziska Marcus, née Schultz.
He moved to Nuremberg in May 1938. The couple last lived at Maxtorgraben 31.
Marie and Karl Marcus were deported on 29 November 1941 to the Riga-Jungfernhof Ghetto and murdered there.
- Nuremberg City Archives, C 21/X Nr. 6 registration card.
- Nuremberg City Archives (ed.), Gedenkbuch für die Nürnberger Opfer der Schoa (Quellen zur Geschichte und Kultur der Stadt Nürnberg, vol. 29), Nuremberg 1998, p. 217.
- Bernd Siegler: Heulen mit den Wölfen. Der 1. FC Nürnberg und der Ausschluss seiner jüdischen Mitglieder, Fürth 2022, S. 134-135.
