On 29 April 2026, two stumbling stones were laid for Martin and Else Kohn. Their relative Jeffrey Metzger was sponsor. Else committed suicide in 1939; Martin was murdered in Riga-Jungfernhof.

Martin Kohn was born on 26 October 1877 in Nuremberg. He was the oldest son of Emil and Wilhelmine Kohn, née Maas. In 1878, his grandfather, Anton Kohn, founded the Bankhaus Anton Kohn, once one of the largest private banks in Bavaria. In 1903, Martin Kohn became a partner in the Bankhaus Anton Kohn and, after the death of his father in 1906, managed it together with his brother Richard.

On 2 July 1910, he wed Else Tuchmann. She was born on 19 July 1891 in Nuremberg, as the daughter of Richard and Lina Tuchmann, née Heidenheimer.

Martin and Else had a daughter, Edith Käthe, born on 4 June 1911 in Nuremberg. In August 1919, the family moved into the house at Vestnertorgraben 15.

From 1933, the National Socialists made the business activities of the Bankhaus Kohn increasingly difficult. Martin Kohn musste das Amt des Handelsrichters abgeben. In 1938 there was a forced liquidation of the Bankhaus Kohn and coerced sale of the properties at Königstrasse 26 and Campestrasse 10. The National Socialists called it “Aryanization”.

The purchase price for the company and property was paid into blocked accounts, to which the former owners had no access. This made the funds for emigration out of reach.

In July 1937, Edith married the ophthalmologist Dr. Willy Heller. The couple fled via the Dominican Republic to the USA in 1939.

Else took her own life on 16 April 1939. Martin was deported on 29 November 1941 to Riga-Jungfernhof, where he was most likely murdered on 26 March 1942 in a mass shooting.