The street directory of Pullach will change.
The community wants to rename two streets and thus set an example against anti-Semitism.
Pullach
- As the local council decided with a large majority, Bischof-Meiser-Straße should in future be Dr.
Richard Eylenburg-Strasse are called.
The days of the current Industriestrasse are also numbered - here the namesake of the near future, Dr.
Franz Pollitzer, a chemist and Wahlpullacher who, like Eylenburg, was also persecuted anti-Semitically during the Nazi era.
The Charlottenstrasse in the village will, however, remain Charlottenstrasse - here the committee did not want to follow the administration's idea of using Charlotte-Dessecker-Strasse in future to connect the S-Bahn to Schwaneck Castle;
that is not worth the effort that a new address entails for residents.
Bishop has made racist and anti-Semitic expressions on several occasions
The proposal to rename Bischof-Meiser-Strasse was made by the very active history forum of the community six months ago. The cleric, says archivist Christian Sachse, was indeed a fighter for the freedom of his Protestant regional church, which he was brave enough to prevent. But he also expressed himself “racially anti-Semitic” on several occasions, once in an essay in 1926 and another time for 1943. In addition, according to Sachse, he never distanced himself from the regime, on the contrary even introduced the Hitler salute in the church, said nothing against the war of extermination and did not critically accompany euthanasia: "He is an ambivalent figure." Which is why cities like Nuremberg and Munich have long since renamed their Bischof-Meiser-Strasse;In the founding years of the Federal Republic of Germany, the bishop was considered a resistance fighter.
Moral obligation to counter new anti-Semitic tendencies
Cornelia Zechmeister, WiP, was unable to assert herself with her opinion: “You have to let the old go for a while”.
The majority of the committee thought more like the history forum, which had suggested “setting an example and opposing all forms of hatred of Jews and anti-Semitism”.
Especially today, said at the meeting Peter Habit, assessor in the history forum, it is our “moral obligation to counter new anti-Semitic tendencies”.
Eylenburg was an appeal judge in denazification trials
Richard Eylenburg, born in Waldenburg / Silesia, spent years in concentration and labor camps.
His brother died in Buchenwald, and numerous other relatives were killed by the Nazis.
After the war, he found his way back to life in Pullach; the staunch social democrat was second mayor for a while from 1952.
As a lawyer, he was, among other things, an appeal judge in denazification processes.
During the discussion, Holger Ptacek (SPD) said that he was pleased that Eylenburg was to be honored as a person who was closely connected to the “history of the workers' movement”.
"I find that very touching."
Pollitzer was deported in 1942 and never came back
Before the First World War, however, Franz Pollitzer, the new namesake of Industriestraße, which until 2010 was called Albert Pietzsch after the “Peroxid” founder and Hitler supporter, came to the Isar Valley. In 1911 he started at “Linde's Eismaschinen”, was disenfranchised from 1933, but was able to stay in the Isar valley until 1938 with the help of his employer. Then he managed to flee to France, but he still did not escape the National Socialists. He was deported in 1942 and never came back. Susanne Meinl has reconstructed his life in her volume on anti-Semitic persecuted people in Pullach.
The question that was raised by CSU member Sebastian Westenthanner at the meeting, whether the Industriestraße, which ultimately leads to a sewage treatment plant and where no people live, was a street that does credit to the namesake, only concerned those involved briefly . Mayor Susanna Tausendfreund (Greens) said: "Pollitzer's place of work was the Linde company, the street was chosen correctly."