Karl Adler´s Birthhouse                              (Badgäßle 3)

 Karl Adler, the eldest of Louis and Mathilde Adler´s three children, was born here on 25 January 1890. Adler was one of the most important personalities in Stuttgart´s music world: In 1921 he was appointed director of the ”New Conservatory of Music”. After being dismissed from his teaching position in 1933, he became involved in the Jewish cultural life, particularly in the Jewish house of teaching, which had been founded under the influence of Martin Buber in 1926. Within the ”Jüdische Mittelstelle” (a Jewish organization assisting communications between German authorities and the Jews), Adler helped many fellow Jews to emigrate from Germany. At the last moment, in 1941, he himself managed to emigrate to the USA, where he received a professorial chair in the music department of Yeshiva University in 1946. After the war, Karl Adler encouraged reconciliation between Germans and Jews. In Buttenhausen he was extensively involved in planning places of monument to the victims of National Socialism (1961) and for the destroyed synagogue (1966). He passed away in 1973 in Leonida, New Jersey.