Four benchers from Christian the Fourth’s Guild participated in the event, together with the chairperson of the Guild’s Foundation, councilor Vibeke Gamst. The Foundation had donated 5.000 Dr.kr. to the project.

German artist Gunter Demnig created the Stumbling Stone Project. The first stone was placed in Cologne in 1995, and since then more than 116,000 stones have been laid across the world.

Stumbling Stones are small memorials, the size of a cobblestone, laid in remembrance of people who were persecuted and perished under Nazism.

The first Stumbling Stone in Aalborg honors Police Superintendent Poul Larsen, who was highly active in the resistance movement during World War II. Poul Larsen was executed in Ryvangen on March 10, 1945.

The stone was laid by his son, Niels Peter Juhl Larsen, and his daughter and grandchildren were also present.

The Stumbling Stone has been placed at Gabels Square, the former site of Aalborg’s old police station.