On 24 October 2025, three stumbling stones were laid for Paul, Elsbeth and Lotte Oettinger. Lotte’s daughter, Marion Thurnauer, was sponsor. Paul and Elsbeth fled in 1939 to their daughter Luise in Canada; Lotte fled in 1935 to the USA.

Paul Oettinger was born on 12 March 1876 in Nuremberg, as the son of Hermann Oettinger and his wife Luise, née Beyer.

On 21 November 1905, he married Elsbeth Eichenberg in Göttingen, where she was born on 1 February 1882. She was the daughter of Salomon Eichenberg and his wife Klara, née Rosenberg. Paul and Elsbeth moved in 1906 to Nuremberg and lived from 1909 in Frommannstrasse 17.

Paul and Elsbeth had two daughters: Luise Hedwig, born on 22 November 1906, and Lotte, born on 7 July 1910.

Paul was a soldier in World War I. In 1923, he purchased a part ownership in the Radium Bronzefarben- & Blattmetall-Werken, a company with headquarters in Nuremberg and subsidiaries in England, South America and Canada. As director of the company, he travelled often to its foreign branches. He was a co-founder of the Association of German Bronze Coating Manufacturers (Gesamtverband Deutscher Bronzefarben-Fabrikanten) and a respected arbitrator of claims.

Despite that he was driven out of his own company in 1938. In the Reich Pogrom Night, the family’s home was ransacked. Paul and Elsbeth fled in March 1939 to Saskatoon, Canada.

Their daughter Luise lived there. She was a Doctor of Physics and married to Gerhard Herzberg, a Doctor of Physics and Chemistry. The Herzbergs left Germany in 1935 after Gerhard’s authorization to teach at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt was rescinded because Luise was of Jewish descent. Gerhard was a Professor of Physics at the University of Saskatchewan. In 1971, he received a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Lotte fled in December 1934, first to London and then to the USA. There, in 1935, she married Hans Thurnauer, who also came from Nuremberg.