Hildegard Franz

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Hildegard Franz (* February 6, 1921 in Tübingen as Hildegard Reinhardt ; † May 7, 2013 in Deißlingen ) was a survivor of the Porajmos . She was imprisoned in the " Auschwitz Gypsy Camp " and in the Buchenwald concentration camp .

Life

Ravensburg , memorial to commemorate the 29 Sinti from Ravensburg who were murdered in Auschwitz in front of the church of the parish of Sankt Jodok, whose members were the deportees. Hildegard Franz's children are among the victims

Hildegard Franz was born in Tübingen and grew up in Ravensburg . After she was sent to the gypsy camp in Ravensburg in 1936 , she was examined there by the Racial Hygiene Research Center in 1937 . March 13, 1943 were 36 children, men and women picked up and on 15 March 1943 by the freight station Stuttgart in the newly established "from the camp gypsy camp Auschwitz " deported . At that time she was married and had three daughters between the ages of three years and seven months. She was registered there under the prisoner number Z 4734 and tattooed. Her daughters were also registered there according to other members of the Reinhardt family under the prisoner numbers Z 4739 to 4741. The children's death dates are not given, Hildegard Franz's onward journey is noted for April 15, 1944. On that day, two large groups of prisoners, 884 men and 473 women, were deported to the Buchenwald and Ravensbrück concentration camps .

On April 26, 1943, the household effects left in Ravensburg were put up for auction and the living space was released for reuse from May 1st.

Hildegard Franz was later used as a forced laborer in the armaments department in the Buchenwald concentration camp . They freed the Americans on a death march in Thuringia . Her husband was killed in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp .

After the war, she and five other women returned to Ravensburg. On the site of the former forced camp, there is now accommodation in the barracks of the camp, which was a social hotspot until well into the 1980s. In 1957 she received a one-time compensation of 150 marks for her persecution by the Nazi state as compensation for the deprivation of liberty of the children, not for their death. It was only in 2001 that she was able to receive a monthly victim pension.

After the civil rights movement gained strength, she gave many lectures, including to school classes, and received numerous honors. She received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for her commitment as a “tireless admonisher against forgetting and for the reconciliation of peoples”.

In 2003 and 2007 she gave speeches on the grounds of the former Buchenwald concentration camp at commemorative events of the International Camp Committee in Buchenwald concentration camp on the occasion of the respective anniversaries of the liberation. At the 2004 Katholikentag she had an interview with contemporary witnesses. In 2005, her fate was presented as part of an exhibition Les femmes oubliées de Buchenwald at the Jean Moulin Museum in Paris . In March 2013, on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of the deportation of the Sinti from the Stuttgart region, their memoirs were read out in an ecumenical memorial service with the participation of Bishops Gebhard Fürst and Ulrich Fischer .

Hildegard Franz, who had also received numerous honors from the city of Ravensburg, died on May 7, 2013 at the age of 92 of pneumonia . She is buried in the city cemetery in Rottweil .

Web links

Contemporary witness in film and visual documentaries

Literature on Hildegard Franz

  • Daniel Strauss (Ed.): "... got away. Reports and testimonies from Sinti who survived the Nazi persecution." Berlin 2000.
  • Dorothea Kinderlen: persecution and destruction of the Ravensburg Sinti, in: Peter Eitel (ed.), Ravensburg in the Third Reich. Contributions to the history of the city, 2nd edition Ravensburg 1998,

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hildegard Franz has died. (No longer available online.) In: nrwz.de. May 10, 2013, archived from the original on October 20, 2014 ; Retrieved October 20, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. And obituary notice Hildegard Franz. In: Schwarzwälder Bote . May 10, 2013, accessed October 20, 2014 .  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nrwz.de
  2. ↑ Children and young people - With the Reichsbahn into death
  3. ↑ see Gabriele Trost: "We haven't done anything ..."
  4. ↑ General ledger, p. 305.
  5. ↑ Memorial book, p. 1557.
  6. ↑ Florian Lindemann : The Sinti from the Ummenwinkel. A social hotspot is recovering. Beltz, Weinheim 1991, p. 38.
  7. ↑ Political commemoration in Buchenwald - memorial work is not looking backwards, but a task for the future
  8. ↑ "We haven't done anything ..." - The genocide of the Sinti and Roma, ( Memento of the original of October 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.krieg-film.de
  9. ↑ stolpersteine-stuttgart.de
  10. ↑ Florian Lindemann : The Sinti from the Ummenwinkel. A social hotspot is recovering. Beltz, Weinheim 1991, p. 38.
  11. ↑ Federal Cross of Merit for Hildegard Franz from Deißlingen ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . NRWZ, December 5, 2012, accessed on October 20, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nrwz.de
  12. ↑ Rita Haller-Haid : Federal Cross of Merit for Hildegard Franz from Deißlingen ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , December 6, 2012, accessed October 20, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.haller-haid.de
  13. ↑ 2003: "Political Commemoration in Buchenwald" our zeit - newspaper of the DKP, April 25, 2003 ; 2007: "Commemoration for the self-liberation of Buchenwald Concentration Camp" Antifaschistische Nachrichten No. 9, pp. 9,10; dated May 3, 2007.
  14. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / dzokulm.telebus.de
  15. ^ Bibliotheques-clermontcommunaute.net
  16. ^ German East Asia Mission: Divine service on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the deportation of the Sinti and Roma
  17. ↑ bildungsserver.de
personal data
SURNAME Franz, Hildegard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reinhardt, Hildegard (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 2013
Place of death Deißlingen