In Hof, the war memorial for
the victims of the two World Wars is to be found in the "Wittelsbacher
Park", on Sophienstraße and Bergstraße, not far from the mainstation and the
library. Eleven commemorative plaques (all of the same size) have been put
up on a wall with a metal statue infront of it. On the central plaque you
will find the following inscription
HELDEN DER STADT RUHENDE SAAT MAHNEN ZUR
ERNTE KÜNFTIGER TAT.
(heroes of the town / resting
seeds / remind us of the harvest of future deeds)
To the left and the right of this, you will
find five plaques respectively, on which - in chronological order - the
names of the fallen soldiers are listed in alphabetical order. Among the
victims, under the year 1915 the name of the Jewish-German soldier:
HAMBURGER THEOD. 27. VIII.
,
On the right side, under the
year1918 the name of
ROSENFELD ALBERT 10. IV.
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