Stolpersteine in the Lake Constance district

The Stolpersteine in the Lake Constance district lists all Stolpersteine that have been collocated in Friedrichshafen and Überlingen in the Bodenseekreis in the very South of Germany. Stolpersteine is the German name for stumbling blocks collocated all over Europe by German artist Gunter Demnig. They remember the fate of the Nazi victims being murdered, deported, exiled or driven to suicide.

[Friedrichshafen]

Stone	Inscription	Location	Life and death
	HERE LIVED ELSA HAMMER NÉE FELLHEIMER BORN 1884 DEPORTED 1943 AUSCHWITZ MURDERED 24.9.1943	Zeppelinstraße 275	née Fellheimer was born on 1 December 1884 in Göppingen. Her parents were Isaak Fellheimer and Mathilde née Bernheim. She had two younger brothers, Joseph and Theo, and was growing up in a well protected environment. One of her relatives was Albert Einstein. She married Karl Hammer, a merchant from Göppingen. The couple moved to the Lake Constance. The Hammers did not have children, but they gave home to a foster child, Martha Mutter. The two nieces of Elsa Hammer, Margot and Lore-Luise, regularly spent their holidays with her aunt. She was the only Jew in Friedrichshafen and well respected. Due to the Christian origin of her husband she was living in a ″privileged mixed marriage″ and was therefore protected from deportation. This status ended all of a sudden when her husband died on 21 July 1943. She was arrested, brought to Stuttgart and deported to Auschwitz concentration camp on 14 September 1943. There she was murdered in the course of the Shoah. Both brothers, sister-in-law Jenny and niece Lore-Luise were all deported to Latvia and murdered in Kaunas. Only Margot Fellheimer, the other niece, could escape to England. She survived.

The Stolpersteine in the Bodenseekreis were collocated by the artist himself on the following dates: