Lina Sturm, portrait photo from around 1920.

(Nuremberg City Archives, C21/VII No. 163)

Theodorstrasse can be seen in the right-hand half of the picture. The houses with the odd numbers (1 to 11) are on the left-hand side of the street. Picture postcard from around 1910.

(Photo Collection Geschichte Für Alle e.V.)

The house at Theodorstrasse 3 is circled in red. Together with Emilienstrasse and Prinzregentenufer, the street is part of a large upper-class residential area built at the beginning of the 20th century on the grounds of the former Klett engineering works. In the bottom left-hand corner of the picture, the Pegnitz River enters the old city. The avenue of plane trees along Prinzregentenufer is also visible. Aerial photo 1927.

(Nuremberg City Archives, A 97 No. 302)

Lina Sturm

(1859-1942)

Location of stone: Theodorstrasse 3 District: Wöhrd
Sponsors: Hubert Rottner Defet, Thommy Barth and others Laying of stone: 22 May 2004

Biography

On 22 May 2004 Gunter Demnig laid the first stumbling stones in Nuremberg. These included a stumbling stone for Lina Sturm, who was murdered in Theresienstadt.

Lina Strauß was born on 17 October 1859 in Fürth. Her parents were the textile wholesaler Nathan Strauß and his wife Babette (née Löwenhaar). She had five sisters and a brother.

Her brother, Prof. Dr. Benno Strauß, was a physicist and metallurgist. As director of the Krupp PLC research institute, he devised a method for producing stainless steel. He died in September 1944 while being deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp. Streets are named after him in Fürth and Essen. In 2007 a stumbling stone was laid in front of his house in Essen.

Lina married the trader Leon Sturm. Born on 9 September 1850 in Burgebrach, Sturm worked as a commercial representative, selling sandpaper.

Initially, the couple lived in Fürth. Four of their sons were born there: Julius (born 3 June 1880), Berthold (born 17 August 1881), Josef (born 14 November 1882) and Max (born 15 June 1884). In September 1884 the family moved to Nuremberg. Leon died on 28 February 1926 in Nuremberg.

Julius Sturm was deported to Izbica on 24 March 1942, where he was murdered.

Berthold Sturm was admitted to the psychiatric hospital in Erlangen in March 1916. On 16 September 1940, in the course of “Aktion T4”, he was taken to the psychiatric hospital at Eglfing-Haar near Munich. Four days later, he was gassed in the killing centre at Hartheim Castle near Linz. Gunter Demnig laid a stumbling stone for him in Erlangen in 2007.

In May 1939 Josef managed to flee to Bolivia.

Max and his wife Anna (née Steinfeld) emigrated to the USA in October 1939. Prior to this, the couple had lived in Augsburg.

Lina Sturm was one of the 533 Nuremberg Jews deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp on 10 September 1942. She was murdered there eight days later.

- Nuremberg City Archives, C 21/X No. 9 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. 348.

- www.flurgespraeche.de/benno-strauss [accessed on 29 June 2021].

Stolpersteine in the vicinity