Franz Rosenkranz & Ferdinand Köck - Salzburg, Austria
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N 47° 48.259 E 013° 02.628
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The Stolpersteine plaques for Franz Rosenkranz and Ferdinand Köck are located at Mirabellplatz 1 in Salzburg, Austria.
Waymark Code: WMM4TG
Location: Salzburg, Austria
Date Posted: 07/21/2014
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member puczmeloun
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The plaques read:

Hier Wohnte
Franz Rosenkranz
JG. 1886
Verhaftet 7.4.1938
Deportiert 22.7.1942
Sachsenhausen
Ermordet 19.4.1945

Hier Wohnte
Ferdinand Köck
JG. 1882
Deportiert 17.4.1941
'Schloss Hartheim'
Ermordet 1941

Detailed information about Franz Rosenkranz, a career officer in the Austrian army, is available at the Stolperstein Salzburg (visit link) and Salzburg Wiki (visit link) websites.

The following additional information about Ferdinand Köck is from the Stolperstein Salzburg (visit link) website:

[GERMAN]
Ferdinand KÖCK, geboren am 9. Juni 1882 in Salzburg, katholisch, war das fünfte von sieben Kindern des Postbediensteten Mathias Köck, der 1894 starb, und seiner Frau Anna, geborene Moosbrucker, ebenfalls Postbedienstete, die 1914 starb – eine große Familie, die nach altösterreichischem Recht in Salzburg heimatberechtigt war. Fünf Schwestern, die heirateten, lebten in anderen Orten. In Salzburg blieben die beiden Brüder Wilhelm, ein Postbeamter, der verheiratet war, und Ferdinand, der keinen Beruf erlernt hatte, Taglöhner oder Hilfsarbeiter war, ledig blieb und oftmals die Arbeits- und Schlafstelle wechselte. Ferdinand war zuletzt Untermieter bei der Witwe Anna Hellermann im alten Lodronschen Primogenitur-Palast, der mittlerweile der Stadtgemeinde gehörte.

Ferdinand KÖCK wurde 1932 in der Landesheilanstalt aufgenommen und am 17. April 1941 nach Hartheim deportiert, dort ermordet.

Sein älterer Bruder Wilhelm starb im Jahr 1947 in Salzburg.

[ENGLISH TRANSLATION COURTESY OF GOOGLE]
Ferdinand KÖCK, born on 9 June 1882 in Salzburg, a Catholic, was the fifth of seven children of postal workers Mathias Köck, who died in 1894, and his wife Anna, nee Moss Brucker, also postal workers who died in 1914 - a large family, after old Austrian law in Salzburg native was entitled. Five sisters who married, lived in other places. In Salzburg, the two brothers, Wilhelm, was a postal worker who was married, remained and Ferdinand, who had learned no occupation, laborers or laborers was, remained single and often changed the working and sleeping place. Ferdinand was last lodger with the widow Anna Heller man in old Lodronschen primogeniture Palace, which is now owned by the Borough.

Ferdinand KÖCK was recorded in 1932 in the state mental hospital and deported to Hartford home on 17 April 1941 where he was murdered.

His older brother William died in 1947 in Salzburg.
Deported to:
Sachsenhausen and Schloss Hartheim


Year/Jahrgang: Not listed

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