Villa Schlikker

The Villa Schlikker is a former industrialist's villa in Osnabrück, which belongs to the Osnabrück Museum Quarter on Heger-Tor-Wall/Lotter Straße as part of the Museum of Cultural History with the Felix Nussbaum House and the Excise House. The building, which was built in 1900, was the seat of the local NSDAP party headquarters during the National Socialist era and was called the "Brown House" by the population. After the end of the Second World War, it was used by the British occupying forces until it passed to the city of Osnabrück, which set it up as a natural history and cultural history museum. By 2023, the villa is to be transformed into a historical-cultural place of learning in memory of the Osnabrück lawyer Hans Georg Calmeyer. During the time of the German occupation of the Netherlands, he saved at least 2866 Jews from deportation to extermination camps. In 1992 he was posthumously honored as "Righteous Among the Nations", which made him known as the "Schindler from Osnabrück". In 2020, there was resistance in the Netherlands to naming the building after a "high-ranking official of the Nazi regime in the Netherlands".

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