Dagobert Salomons

The Dagobert Salomons Stolperstein is a small brass memorial plaque set into a pavement in Frankfurt. It commemorates Dagobert Salomons, a Jewish resident of the city.

Dagobert studied at the Wöhler Realgymnasium, where he excelled and played violin in the school orchestra. Nazi rule changed his family’s life in 1933.

Anti-Semitic persecution brought financial and social hardship, while his mother Mina suffered severe depression and entered an institution. Mina died there under suspicious circumstances in 1937.

Financial difficulties forced Dagobert to leave school in 1936 and begin an apprenticeship at a Frankfurt company. He fled Germany in 1938 and escaped to the Netherlands.

He later reached Colombia, while his family remained in Germany and faced the Holocaust. The Stolperstein project places brass plaques in pavements before people’s last known residences.

This plaque connects Dagobert’s name with Frankfurt’s streets and with the history of Jewish persecution. The memorial records his education, escape, family hardships, and the loss surrounding his story.