Fritz and Alfred Rotter worked as writers and composers and owned multiple successful theatres in Berlin during the era of the Weimar Republic.

However, by 1933 due to the two men's Jewish backgrounds, they were the target of pressure contemporaneous with the rise of Nazism in Germany, and in January 1933, they were forced to declare bankruptcy and emigrate to Liechtenstein.

[2][3] Prime minister Josef Hoop attempted to use private contacts and offering informal support to the German government, where he considered appealing to Otto Meissner in order for the press attacks to end.

Notably however, both the deaths of Alfred and Gertrud and the political motivation behind the kidnapping were deliberately downplayed in order to avoid further press attacks from Nazi Germany.

In October of the same year, it was agreed that in order for German press attacks against Liechtenstein to come to an end, Schädler and Rheinbeger would be released from prison early.

[2][12] Fritz Rotter and his wife would shortly after leave Liechtenstein, and with assistance from Wladimir Rosenbaum, would live in exile in France until his death in 1939.

On April 5, 2002, a group of activists set up a commemorative plaque at the foot of the rock where Alfred and Gertrud Rotter fell to their deaths.

(On April 5, 1933, the Jewish couple Alfred and Gertrud Schaie (Rotter) were driven to their deaths at this place by Liechtensteiner and German Nazis.

[2] A Stolperstein - which is the German word for "stumbling block" - is a ten-centimetre, cobblestone-sized concrete cube bearing a brass plate inscribed with the name and life dates of victims of Nazi extermination or persecution.