War blind

War blind memorial in Mehlem by Yrsa von Leistner

A war blind person is a person who has been blinded as a result of armed conflict, on the run or during displacement , as a soldier or civilian , through the effects of ammunition , explosives or during bombing attacks .

Legal regulations

In the Federal Republic of Germany , war blind people are entitled to benefits under the following laws and regulations :

• Federal Pension Act
• War Victims Welfare
• care insurance
• Severely handicapped law .

Organizations

The war blind have been organized in the Association of War Blind Germany since 1949 . There were also interest groups before that, as can be seen, for example, at the state conference of the Bavarian War Blind in Würzburg on May 27, 1933.

See also

• German war invalids in the 20th century
• War disabled

literature

1. Bund der Kriegsblinden Deutschlands eV (Ed.): Kriegsblinden-Jahrbuch 2000, Bonn (self-published) 2000
2. Bund der Kriegsblinden Deutschlands eV (Ed.): 75 years Bund der Kriegsblinden Deutschlands eV, 1916 - 1991, Bonn (self-published) 1991
3. Willi Finck: Between light and shadow - war blind people in the GDR. History of the political, organizational and social situation of war and military service blind people in East Germany (1945-2004), Rostock (Ingo Koch Verlag) 2005 ISBN 3-937-17993-3
4. Barbara Hoffmann: War Blind in Austria 1914-1934, Volume 9 of the "Blue Series" of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on the Consequences of War, Graz / Vienna / Klagenfurt 2006 ISBN 3-901661-17-4
5. Barbara Hoffmann: War blind people in Austria. The emergence of a "two-tier system" of blind people. In: Association for the social history of medicine (ed.), Virus. Contributions to the social history of medicine, Vienna 2007, pp. 75–84

Web links

• Association of the war blind of Germany
• Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on the Consequences of War
• Founding of the working group of war-blind weavers on October 28, 1949

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Weidisch: Würzburg in the "Third Reich". In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , p. 1274, note 75.