Karl Schörghofer (9.11.1879 Hallein/Salzburg – 14.5.1962 Munich)

Karl Schörghofer worked as a manager and horticulturist at the new Jewish graveyard in the Ungererstraße (now Garchingerstraße) starting in 1923 and he lived with his family in a service apartment on the cemetery grounds. The non-Jewish Schörghofer family also operated a small garden center there. In the course of the increasing persecution of Jews in Munich, Schörghofer hid cult objects, Torah scrolls, and candlesticks in the cemetery that came from destroyed Jewish communities in the Munich area or from Jews who had emigrated.

In October 1943, Karl Schörghofer was willing to clandestinely inter a Jewish woman in the graveyard. This woman had lived concealed with an acquaintance of Schörghofer's, became ill there, and eventually died. In January 1944, the Munich Jew Karl Vollmer fled when he was to be deported to Theresienstadt. The cemetery groundskeeper hid him in the spacious grounds with the help of his son Karl and his wife Katharina. When a whole group of Jewish teenagers turned to the Schörghofer family for help in February 1945, they were also taken in. The young people were fleeing from the last deportations from Munich; they were to be taken to Theresienstadt. Schörghofer's daughter sheltered a Jewish girl.

Karl Schörghofer, his wife Katharina, his son Karl Jr., and daughter Martha Schörghofer-Schleipfer were recognized as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in 1967.