On 22 May 1930 , Carl Friedrich Goerdeler was elected mayor of Leipzig . He was well known as an opponent of the Nazi regime . He resigned in 1937 when , in his absence , his Nazi deputy ordered the destruction of the city 's statue of Felix Mendelssohn . On Kristallnacht in 1938 , the 1855 Moorish Revival Leipzig synagogue , one of the city 's most architecturally significant buildings , was deliberately destroyed . Goerdeler was later executed by the Nazis on 2 February 1945
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Leipzig