Grannies against the right Protest against Karl Schrem building Landsberg am Lech

Discussion on the culture of remembrance in Landsberg am Lech

Taking stock of Landsberg’s culture of remembrance

Discussion and protest action by Omas gegen Rechts on August 14, 2021 in Landsberg am Lech

Addendum April 2026
Two of the four participants in this discussion have since passed away: Manfred Deiler on November 12, 2023, and Dr. Edith Raim on July 1, 2025. Their contributions thus bear witness to a generation that has come to terms with and passed on the legacy of Landsberg’s Nazi history. The video document and the authorized transcription remain accessible as a primary source. Due to current events, we have revised the sound quality of the 2026 video recording and re-recorded the contribution.

The occasion

On Saturday, August 14, 2021, members of the Munich regional group of the “Omas gegen Rechts” initiative came to Landsberg am Lech for a stocktaking and protest action.
The reason for the protest was the planned naming of a new building in the “Urbanes Leben am Papierbach” residential area as the “Karl Schrem Building”. Karl Schrem (1895-1981) was the director of the former Bayerische Pflugfabrik – an armaments factory with forced labor during the Second World War – and a member of the NSDAP since 1938.

The public justification strategies, trivialization and condoning by the town, the press, letters to the editor and social media have caused concern outside Landsberg. In addition to a tour of the former Kaufering VII subcamp, a discussion on the situation and status of Landsberg’s culture of remembrance took place at dieKunstBauStelle e.V. in the evening.

The discussion is reproduced here as video documentation. An edited transcription of the contributions to the discussion, authorized by all participants, is available.

Caption: Panel discussion on August 14, 2021 at dieKunstBauStelle e.V. in Landsberg am Lech. From the left: Dr. habil. Edith Raim (†), historian, University of Augsburg; Manfred Deiler (†), President of the European Holocaust Memorial Foundation; Gabriele Triebel, Member of Parliament, Alliance 90/The Greens; Wolfgang Hauck, artist and actor in the culture of remembrance. In the background: Participants of the Munich regional group of the “Grannies against the Right” initiative. Photo: Christian Rudnik

PARTICIPANTS IN THE DISCUSSION

Dr. habil. Edith Raim † , historian, lecturer at the University of Augsburg, numerous publications on Landsberg’s Nazi history and Nazi justice
Gabriele Triebel, Member of the Bavarian State Parliament, Alliance 90/The Greens
Manfred Deiler † , President of the European Holocaust Memorial Foundation e.V.
Wolfgang Hauck, artist, project developer of the culture of remembrance, board member of dieKunstBauStelle e.V., (moderator)

NOTES ON DOCUMENTATION
The first report on the event was published on August 18, 2021. The video recording and transcription followed in September 2021. In April 2026, the sound quality of the video recording was revised and the report was reclassified due to the current situation.

VIDEO
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/588825293

TRANSCRITPION OF THE RED CONTRIBUTIONS

Speeches 14.8.2021 – Download PDF

ARTICLE

13.08.2021 Landsberger Tagblatt: Protest grandmas against the right against naming “Kar l Schrem Bau”

18.08.2021 District messenger: Inventory and visit

Sources

Further press articles on the naming debate
Discussion on the naming of the Karl Schrem Building 2021
Reports on the visit by Omas gegen Rechts to Landsberg am Lech

ONLINE
The access status of the following links is August 2022. Individual sources have been changed or removed since then (see notes).

Landsberg am Lech district messenger
District messenger Kalr Schrem am Papierbach.de
https://www.kreisbote.de/lokales/landsberg/karl-schrem-bau-leben-am-papierbach-gelaende-landsberg-muss-abgerissen-werden-10352612.html

https://www.kreisbote.de/lokales/landsberg/karl-schrem-bau-papierbach-landsberg-wird-abgerissen-11063531.html

https://www.merkur.de/lokales/landsberg-kreisbote/erinnerungskultur-muenchener-omas-gegen-rechts-zu-besuch-in-landsberg-90923520.html

https://www.merkur.de/lokales/landsberg-kreisbote/namenssuche-beim-landsberger-ulp-runde-91035410.html

Landsberger Tagblatt
https://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/landsberg/Landsberg-Landsberg-Omas-gegen-Rechts-protestieren-gegen-Karl-Schrem-Bau-id60302431.html

https://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/landsberg/ULP-Neuer-Name-fuer-Karl-Schrem-Bau-in-Landsberg-Kritik-am-ULP-Investor-id60562441.html

ehret+klein
https://www.ehret-klein.de/presse/landsberg-hat-abgestimmt-so-heissen-die-sechs-gebaeude-im-suedlichen-bauabschnitt/

https://www.ehret-klein.de/presse/am-papierbach-der-ehem-karl-schrem-bau-heisst-nun-sternrad-haus/

City of Landsberg am Lech: probably deleted in 2024
https://www.landsberg.de/kultur/stadtgeschichte/die-pflugfabrik-karl-schrem/

City of Landsberg: Karl Schrem (still included in the demo version of the new version of the website=
https://neu.landsberg.de/kultur/stadtgeschichte/die-pflugfabrik-karl-schrem

Marjorie-Wiki: Karl Schrem, copy of the first Wikipedia entry, deleted due to lack of relevance