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Letters, articles, and other records of persons sterilized on orders of the hereditary health (eugenics) courts
NMT 3
Authors
Johanna Urban (dancer, Berlin)
Johanna Urban
German dancer; Nazi resister; victim of Nazi eugenics program
- Occupation: dancer
- Participant in: Nazi eugenics program (location: Rudolf-Virchow-Klinikum Glauchau; role: victim)
- Residence: Waidmannslust (date: 1947-01-08)
Walter Radtke (Berlin)
Walter Radtke
victim of forced sterilization under Nazi eugenics program
- Member of political party: Social Democratic Party of Germany
- Participant in: Nazi eugenics program (role: victim)
- Residence: Kaulsdorf (date: 1947-01-11)
Josef Broll (Berlin)
Josef Broll
victim of forced sterilization under Nazi eugenics program
- Participant in: Nazi eugenics program (date: 1937-10-05; role: victim)
- Residence: Wilmersdorf (date: 1947-01-07)
Moritz Pinschmidt (Bernsdorf)
Moritz Pinschmidt
father of Elfriede Pinschmidt, victim of forced sterilization under Nazi eugenics program
- Occupation: train conductor
- Residence: Bernsdorf
Wilhelm Brenner (Altheim)
Wilhelm Brenner
German agricultural worker; victim of forced sterilization under Nazi eugenics program
- Occupation: farmer
- Participant in: Nazi eugenics program (date: 1938-01-01; role: victim)
- Residence: Altheim (date: 1947-01-16); Nazi Germany (date: 1938-01-01)
Schmieg (attorney, Horb)
Schmieg
- Additional details not yet available.
Inge Lorber (Triptis)
Inge Lorber
victim of forced sterilization under Nazi eugenics program
- Residence: Triptis (date: 1947-01-15)
Willy Fink (Kleinvach)
Willy Fink
graphic artist (1893-1967)
- Born: 1893-02-07 (Cologne)
- Died: 1967-10-05 (Canada)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: graphic designer; painter
- VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/42634328
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/000000002686457X
- WorldCat Identities ID: https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n88142627
- Library of Congress authority ID: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88142627
Ernst Bosch (merchant, Onstmettingen)
Ernst Bosch
German painter (1834-1917)
- Born: 1834-03-23 (Krefeld)
- Died: 1917-03-22 (Düsseldorf)
- Country of citizenship: German Empire
- Occupation: painter
- VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/2742861
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000066598763
- WorldCat Identities ID: https://worldcat.org/identities/viaf-2742861
Karl Heigl (Wetzdorf)
Karl Heigl
victim of forced sterilization under Nazi eugenics program
- Participant in: Nazi eugenics program (role: victim)
- Significant person: Fritz Sauckel
- Residence: Wetzdorf (date: 1947-01-18)
Gertrud Hubl (Schleusingen)
Gertrud Hubl
victim of forced sterilization under Nazi eugenics program
- Born: 1921-05-13 (Drhovice)
- Participant in: Nazi eugenics program (role: victim)
- Residence: Schleusingen (date: 1947-01-24)
Paul Honndorf (journalist, Berlin)
Paul Honndorf
economist, journalist and victim of forced sterilization under Nazi eugenics program
- Occupation: economist; journalist
- Participant in: Nazi eugenics program (role: victim)
- Residence: Charlottenburg (date: 1947-01-10); Nazi Germany
Ernst Frebel (Thuengen)
Ernst Frebel
German legal representative
- Occupation: legal agent
- Significant person: Anna Schmittner (date: 1947-01-01; role: legal agent)
- Residence: Thüngen
Anna Schmittner (Thuengen)
Anna Schmittner
victim of forced sterilization under Nazi eugenics program and affiant in the Judges' Trial
- Occupation: farmworker (date: 1944-01-01); housewife (date: 1946-01-01)
- Participant in: Judges' Trial (date: 1946-10-13; role: affiant); Nazi eugenics program (date: 1944-01-01; role: victim)
- Significant person: Ernst Frebel (date: 1947-01-01; role: legal agent)
- Residence: Thüngen
Franz Hanel (Neusteddorf)
Franz Hanel
husband of Erna Hanel, victim of forced sterilization under Nazi eugenics program
- Employer: Hamburg-Amerikanische-Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (date: 1937-01-01)
- Spouse: Erna Hanel
- Residence: Lower Saxony (date: 1947-01-01)
Rudolf Kern (professor, Wangen)
Rudolf Kern
- Additional details not yet available.
Peter Maslowski (editor of Neue Presse, Coburg)
Peter Maslowski
German politician and journalist (1893-1983)
- Born: 1893-04-25 (Berlin)
- Died: 1983-04-24 (Sommerhausen)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: journalist; politician
- Member of political party: Communist Party of Germany; Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany; Social Democratic Party of Germany
- Position held: member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic
- VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/98338874
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000375227261
Dannhausen (district judge and eugenics court, Limburg)
Dannhausen
- Additional details not yet available.
Karl Fuehr (Dr., senate judge and eugenics court, Frankfurt)
Karl Fuehr
Senate president in German Reich, physician, and judge in Nazi Eugenics Court
- Born: 1877-02-22 (Berlin)
- Occupation: judge; physician
- Participant in: Nazi eugenics program (role: physician)
- Significant person: Rudolf Klees (date: 1934-01-01; role: victim)
- Employer: Federal Constitutional Court (date: 1934-01-01); Nazi eugenics program
- Residence: Frankfurt am Main (date: 1947-01-01)
Lapp (Dr., county doctor, Limburg)
Lapp
- Additional details not yet available.
Wallrath (mayor, police commisary, Diez)
Wallrath
- Additional details not yet available.
Rudolf Klees (driver, Diez)
Rudolf Klees
victim of forced sterilization under Nazi eugenics program
- Born: 1914-05-20 (Limburg)
- Occupation: driver
- Participant in: Nazi eugenics program (date: 1934-01-01; role: victim)
- Residence: Diez (date: 1947-01-01)
Stannislaus Szezechowiack (Lietzow)
Stannislaus Szezechowiack
victim of forced sterilization under Nazi eugenics program
- Occupation: driver (work location: Lietzow)
- Participant in: Nazi eugenics program
- Military branch: Wehrmacht (period: 1940-03-16 through 1940-07-01)
- Residence: Nauen (date: 1947-01-29)
Willi Strubel (butcher, Hassloch)
Willi Strubel
butcher, farmer and victim of forced sterilization under Nazi eugenics program
- Occupation: butcher; farmer
- Participant in: Nazi eugenics program (role: victim)
- Residence: Haßloch
Hildegard Kuriatkowski (Wetzlar)
Hildegard Kuriatkowski
Victim of Nazi sterilization
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: worker
- Participant in: Judges' Trial
- Residence: Wetzlar
Emil Schoder (court attendant, Steinach)
Emil Schoder
victim of forced sterilization under Nazi eugenics program, anti-Nazi dissident, and affiant in the Judges' Trial
- Born: 1904-11-14 (Steinach)
- Occupation: bailiff (date: 1947-01-01; location: Steinach); construction foreman (date: 1934-01-01); toy maker
- Member of political party: Social Democratic Party of Germany
- Participant in: Judges' Trial (date: 1947-04-24; role: affiant); Nazi eugenics program (date: 1935-11-07; role: victim)
- Residence: Steinach (date: 1934-01-01)
Kaethe Wendel (Dr. med., author on sterilization)
Kaethe Wendel
- Additional details not yet available.
Peter Krump, Jr. (Essen-Steele)
Peter Krump, Jr.
victim of forced sterilization under Nazi eugenics program
- Born: 1901-05-30 (Steele)
- Occupation: confectionery store; miner; smoke shop
- Member of political party: Social Democratic Party of Germany
- Participant in: Nazi eugenics program (date: 1936-02-21; location: Essen; role: victim)
- Residence: Steele (date: 1947-01-01)
Walter Schaefer (Ludwigshafen)
Walter Schaefer
victim of forced sterilization under Nazi eugenics program
- Participant in: Nazi eugenics program (date: 1942-01-01; role: victim)
- Residence: Ludwigshafen
Horst Schmitt (Dr., attorney, Suhl)
Horst Schmitt
German politician (1925-1989)
- Born: 1925-09-03 (Berlin)
- Died: 1989-04-22 (Berlin)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: lawyer; politician
- Member of political party: Socialist Unity Party of Germany; Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin
- Participant in: Judges' Trial (role: witness)
- VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/3489151898618124190005
- WorldCat Identities ID: https://worldcat.org/identities/viaf-3489151898618124190005
Josef Weiss (farmer, Kirchdorf)
Josef Weiss
victim of forced sterilization under Nazi eugenics program, anti-Nazi dissident, and affiant in the Judges' Trial
- Born: 1904-11-14 (Steinach)
- Occupation: bailiff (date: 1947-01-01; location: Steinach); construction foreman (date: 1934-01-01); toy maker
- Member of political party: Social Democratic Party of Germany
- Participant in: Judges' Trial (date: 1947-04-24; role: affiant); Nazi eugenics program (date: 1935-11-07; role: victim)
- Residence: Steinach (date: 1934-01-01)
R. Renner (Offenbach)
R. Renner
- Additional details not yet available.
Max Maurisch (Kirchdorf)
Max Maurisch
victim of forced sterilization under Nazi eugenics program
- Participant in: Nazi eugenics program (date: 1942-01-01; role: victim)
- Residence: Kirchdorf
Date: 08 January 1947
Total Pages: 87
Language of Text: English
Evidence Code: NG-832
Exhibit Code: Prosecution 442
Document Book No: Prosecution 8
Citation: NMT 3 (page 3122)
HLSL Item No.: 6449
Notes:These documents were sent to the prosecutors in response to a newspaper notice about those affected by the eugenics program in January 1947. The authors include victims, relatives, attorneys, writers, and a few officials involved in the program. Rudolf Klees, one of the victims, testified in the trial. Emil Schoder also provided an affidavit, document NG 1336.
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
NG-832: 26 letters from people who were sterilized through verdicts of the Hereditary Hygiene Courts. Some of the letters have enclosures of case records and statements
Doc Book Tables of Contents
NG-832: Letters, cases, records, statements from a representative group of people sterilized trough verdicts of the hereditary health courts.