GRAVELIST OF JEWISH SECTION OF HOPPENLAU CEMETERY IN STUTTGART compiled by Joachim Hahn (
[email protected]) VERSION 01 in close cooperation with Rolf Hofmann (
[email protected]) This gravelist was originally compiled in 1987 in German language by Joachim Hahn in cooperation with Rolf Decrauzat, Richard Klotz and Hermann Ziegler, containing various grave inscriptions which in 1952 still existed but by 1987 had developed illegible - besides that quite a few grave stones had "disappeared" between 1952 and 1987 for whatever unknown reasons. In 1988 this gravelist was published as printed version by Stuttgart City Archive under director Dr Paul Sauer. Jewish Hoppenlau Cemetery is the oldest existing Jewish Cemetery of Stuttgart and served as a burial site from 1834 until 1873 (plus some exceptional burials even later), interments thereafter generally took place at the Jewish section of Prag Cemetery in Stuttgart (founded in 1873). Before 1834 Jewish families of Stuttgart had their burial sites at the Jewish cemeteries of nearby Freudental and Hochberg. The printed 1988 version of Jewish Hoppenlau Cemetery contains more details on the history of Jewish families in Stuttgart and their burial grounds. English translation plus additional family research details for an updated version of 2013 was compiled and digitalized by Rolf Hofmann (
[email protected]) in preparation of an internet version, hoping for feedback of living descendants of the deceased mentioned in this gravelist. Errors regarding vital records are inevitable, due to enormous difficulties in gathering family history details from a huge amount of historic sources, often enough contradictory. Corrections and additional information will be gratefully accepted.