Kurt Lingens
Kurt Lingens (born May 31, 1912 in Düsseldorf , † 1966 or 1967) was a German doctor who was named Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem .
Life
The doctor Dr. Kurt Lingens was a German citizen and was excluded from all German universities in 1933 because of his membership in an anti-fascist student group.
The deportations of Jews from Vienna began in the summer of 1942 . Many Jews turned to the Lingens for help. Some of them had stored their valuables with the Lingens family before they were deported.
When Kurt Lingens and his wife Ella were asked in the summer of 1942 by the Polish underground movement, with which they worked, to carry out the illegal transfer of two Jewish married couples of the brothers Jakob and Bernhard Goldstein, he took in a couple and found them for them others a suitable hiding place.
On October 13, 1942, Karl Motesiczky , Kurt Lingens and his wife Ella were arrested for providing financial aid to members of the Polish resistance movement and for distributing forged ID cards. Kurt Lingens was separated from his three year old son. Motesiczky and the Lingens were taken to the Gestapo headquarters in the former Hotel Metropol on Morzinplatz. Kurt Lingens was transferred to a criminal unit after a brief detention.
After the war, he divorced his wife, who had returned from Auschwitz . He worked in a children's clinic in Vienna and finally emigrated to America, where he worked as a psychiatrist.
In 1980 Yad Vashem awarded Ella Lingens-Reiner and posthumously Kurt Lingens the Medal of Righteousness among the Nations in Jerusalem .
His son is the Austrian journalist Peter Michael Lingens .
literature
- Lexicon of the Righteous Among the Nations. Germans and Austrians . Edited by Daniel Fraenkel (German) and Jakob Borut (Austrian). Wallstein, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-900-7 , pp. 332f.
- Norbert Becker: Kurt Lingens . In: Norbert Becker / Katja Nagel: Persecution and disenfranchisement at the Technical University of Stuttgart during the Nazi era, Stuttgart: Belser 2017, pp. 328–331.
Web links
- Identity card index of the Gestapo Vienna: Kurt Lingens ( Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance )
- Yad Vashem - The stories of six Righteous Among the Nations in Auschwitz: Dr. Ella Lingens (and Kurt Lingens)
- Literature by and about Kurt Lingens in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lingens, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American medic, Righteous Among the Nations |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 31, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | before 1980 |