Elfriede Fliethmann

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Elfriede "Fritzi" Fliethmann , married. from 1943 Elfriede Fliethmann-Henseling (born February 13, 1915 in Vienna , † 1987 in Berlin ) was an Austro-German anthropologist who was active in National Socialist race research.

Life

Fliethmann grew up in Gumpoldskirchen . She first studied history and geography at the University of Vienna , then anthropology from 1936. In 1937 she joined the NSDAP. She received her doctorate in 1940 with Eberhard Geyer . In July 1941 she got a job at the new Institute for German Ostarbeit in occupied Krakow . There she worked under Anton Plügel on the registration of alleged racial characteristics in Jews and Poles. At the University of Vienna, her partner in the evaluation was Dora Kahlich-Könner . Both traveled z. For example, in April / May 1942 the Tarnów ghetto to take skull and body measurements and take photos of the Jewish population. From their letters it emerges that they were under time pressure because of the threatened destruction of their "objects" and that they called on the violent help of the SS by Obersturmbannführer Bernhardt. In Golkowice she took hair samples.

In October 1943 she married the astronomer Robert Henseling , who worked in Berlin and who had worked for Hans Frank in the Generalgouvernement . That is why she finally finished her work in Krakow in January 1944. After 1945 she worked as a teacher in West Berlin.

Fonts

  • Racial investigation of Witzelsdorf and Kopfstetten , two places in Marchfeld , dissertation, University of Vienna 1940
  • Forerunner report on anthropological recordings of Jewish families in Tarnów . German research in the east. 2nd year, issue 3 (March 1942): 92-111
  • The German people and the peoples of Eastern Europe, a folk-biological sketch , in: Die Burg: Vierteljahresschr. d. Institute for German Ostarbeit in Krakow. - Krakow, Burgverl. [u. a.], ZDB-ID 2153865, Vol. 4.1943, pp. 147-186.
  • (Fliethmann-Henseling): Report on anthropological-ethnological investigations in Szaflary and Witów, two Goralenorten in the Neumarkt district , German Research in the East 2 no. 7 (1942) ?, pp. 272–274.

literature

  • Götz Aly , Susanne Heim : thought leaders of annihilation. Auschwitz and the German plans for a new European order , 2004 (first 1991), ISBN 3-596-11268-0 ; extended new edition Fischer paperback, Frankfurt / M. 2013, ISBN 978-3-596-19510-7 . (Chapter: Emancipation )
  • Gretchen E. Schetzt: From Racism to Genocide: Anthropology in the Third Reich , University of Illinois, Urbana & Chicago 2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Schaff, p. 99.
  2. ↑ See Schaff, p. 110.
  3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung January 31, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Fliethmann, Elfriede
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fliethmann, Fritzi (nickname); Fliethmann-Henseling, Elfriede
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-German anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 1987
Place of death Berlin