Am 12. November 1942 Wilhelm Pfromm from Kassel died in prison. He became 1905 was born in Sandershausen and spent a large part of it of his life in Kassel.
Pfromm was involved in the revolutionary workers' movement. In the year 1934 there was an accusation against him, but Pfromm continued to organize himself in the KPD. Willi Belz praised his “unusual steadfastness”.
With 31 Years ago he was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison for “preparation for high treason”. sentenced. First he had to do forced labor in Emsland. He and about 2.200 Other prisoners there were subjected to enormous physical stress and abuse from guards. With 37 He died in one year Prisoner camp in Bochum.
A stumbling block commemorates him near his home. In Kassel there is almost 500 stumbling blocks, which commemorate the victims of the Nazis. The chairman of the Kassel Association for Stolpersteine she calls “a big one, decentralized monument against intolerance".