List of stumbling blocks in St. Johann im Pongau

Stumbling blocks in St. Johann im Pongau

The list of stumbling blocks in St. Johann contains stumbling blocks that were laid by Gunter Demnig in St. Johann im Pongau as part of the art project of the same name . They are used to remember the victims of National Socialism who lived and worked in St. Johann.

List of stumbling blocks

image	inscription	Location	Life
	ALOIS BUDER JG LIVED HERE . 1908 ARRESTED IN THE RESISTANCE July 11, 1944 MAUTHAUSEN MURDERED October 28, 1944	Liechtensteinklammstrasse 3	Alois Buder was born on April 22, 1908 in Lassing . The parents were Karl and Theresia Buder, farmers by profession. They had ten children. In 1930 he moved to St. Johann im Pongau, where he worked as a product dealer and haulier and in 1935 married Theresia Steinlechner. The couple had a son, Walter. After the resistance fighter Karl Rupitsch was freed from the St. Johann prison, Buder gave him shelter in his house for a few days and took him to Taxenbach in a truck in November 1943. He and his wife were arrested, interrogated by the Gestapo in Salzburg, deported to Mauthausen concentration camp on August 12, 1944 , and executed on October 28, 1944 with his comrades Alois Wind , August Egger and Karl Rupitsch. His inmate number was 82,819. His wife, who was sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp , lost her life there on February 28, 1945. Only son Walter survived, raised by his grandmother in St. Johann im Pongau.
	THERESIA BUDER JG LIVED HERE . 1910 ARRESTED IN THE RESISTANCE 11.7.1944 RAVENSBRÜCK MURDERED FEB. 1945	Liechtensteinklammstrasse 3	Theresia Buder , b. Steinlechner was born on November 25, 1910 in St. Johann im Pongau as the daughter of Mathias and Theresia Steinlechner. Her father came from Pinzgau , was a master blacksmith and died before she was born in June 1910. Her mother, a née Grameister, comes from Flachau . After marrying the haulier Alois Buder on September 23, 1935, the couple lived in St. Johann, Markt 191. The couple had a son, Walter, and were both arrested by the National Socialists after the Goldegg storm . Theresia Buder remained imprisoned in the Salzburg police prison until August 13, 1944 and was then deported via Leipzig to the Ravensbrück concentration camp . Her husband was murdered by the Nazi regime in Mauthausen on October 28, 1944, and she herself on February 28, 1945 in Ravensbrück. Their son, now an orphan, grew up with his grandmother in St. Johann im Pongau.
	IN ST. JOHANN LIVED FRANZ FURTNER JG. 1888 DEPORTED 25.6.1938 DACHAU MURDERED 19.12.1938	Hauptstrasse 35	Franz Furtner was born on July 21, 1888 in the house at Pfeifergasse 6 in Salzburg City. His parents were Erembert and Anna Furtner, both Catholic. He became a weaver and moved to St. Johann im Pongau. He was unmarried. The history workshop St. Johann im Pongau assumes that he worked in the weaving mill Höttl, the only weaving mill in town. He lost his job and became homeless. After the so-called annexation of Austria to Hitler's Germany, non-residents were imprisoned immediately. Furten was arrested and deported to the Dachau concentration camp in a transport of Burgenland Roma . He arrived there on June 25, 1938, was registered in the Nazi detention category “ Arbeitszwang Reich ” (AZR) and was given the prisoner number 17514. He died on December 19, 1938 at 5:00 pm. The cause of death was noted in the file: "acute cardiac death".
	AUGUSTE HOLZER GEB. LIVED HERE ADLER JG. 1872 DEPORTED 24.6.1943 THERESIENSTADT MURDERED 24.9.1943	South Tyrolean settlement 22	Auguste Holzer , b. Adler (born July 3, 1872), was the daughter of a Jewish merchant from Kirnberg an der Mank . She married the book printer Rudolf Holzer from Sankt Johann im Pongau, who was also Jewish. Their daughter Auguste Johanna was born on August 26, 1902, and their second daughter Ernestine on December 11, 1903. The older daughter married the community secretary Vinzenz Auer, who took Auguste Holzer into the marital household at an older age. Vinzenz Auer was forced to retire from the Nazi regime because of his marriage to a Jew, had to be reinstated and was finally deported to a subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp . Nothing is known about his further fate or that of his wife. Auguste Holzer, already old and paralyzed, was brought to Vienna via Salzburg and from there deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto on June 24, 1943, where she was killed on September 24, 1943. Her youngest daughter Ernestine had married a man named Muik who divorced her for career reasons. She was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto on January 7, 1943 and to the Auschwitz concentration camp on January 23, 1943 , where she was murdered.
	IN ST. JOHANN LIVED GERTRAUD OBERREITER JG. 1924 DEPORTED 23.5.1941 HARTHEIM CASTLE MURDERED 1941	Hauptstrasse 35	Gertraud Margarethe Oberreiter was born on June 11, 1924 in St. Johann im Pongau. Her parents lived in Reinbach. For reasons unknown, she was considered "mentally impaired" when she started school. On November 3, 1930 , she was housed in the St. Anton Caritas Institute, then an “institution for feeble-minded children”, now Bruck an der Großglocknerstrasse , but came back to her parents on November 23. In 1938 she was placed in the nursing home in the Mariathal Abbey near Kramsach in Tyrol. This care facility was established at the instigation of the Nazi authorities after the Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent Paul’s primary school for orphaned girls had been closed under duress. In Marienthal, those people were specifically “concentrated” who, according to National Socialist doctrine, were considered “ unworthy of life ” and whose extermination was already planned. Gertraud Oberreiter was taken to the Hartheim killing center that same year and murdered there by the Nazi regime.
	CHARLOTTE SCHNEIDER JG LIVED HERE . 1876 DEPORTED 23.10.1941 ŁODZ 1942 CHELMNO MURDERED 9.9.1942	Wagrainerstraße 6	Charlotte Schneider , b. Willheim was born on August 30, 1876 in Groß-Meseritsch . She married the tailor Karl Schneider, moved with him to St. Johann im Pongau and gave birth to two children, Friedrich (born on February 5, 1905) and Else (born on April 25, 1908). Although her husband enjoyed a high reputation in the city due to his social streak, his department store was the target of anti-Semitic accusations by the local NSDAP as early as 1932. In 1938 Charlotte Schneider was expelled to Vienna together with her husband. The couple's last residential address was Vienna 9, Grünentorgasse 10, on October 23, 1941, both were deported to the Łódź Ghetto , where Karl Schneider was murdered on June 28, 1942. Charlotte Schneider was murdered a little later, on September 9, 1942, in the Chelmno extermination camp . Both her daughter Else and her husband Felix Preis and their children Peter and Eva were murdered in 1944 by the Nazi regime in the Theresienstadt ghetto or in the Auschwitz concentration camp . Only the son Friedrich, a doctor, was able to emigrate to England in time in 1939 and survive. In 1949 he had to apply for a declaration of death for his mother and father, sister and brother-in-law, niece and nephew.
	KARL SCHNEIDER JG LIVED HERE . 1876 DEPORTED October 23, 1941 ŁODZ MURDERED June 28, 1942	Wagrainerstraße 6	Karl Schneider was born in Gratzen on November 10, 1876 . He was a tailor by trade, married Charlotte Willheim, moved to St. Johann with her, bought the so-called Judenreithaus right next to the former Elisabethinum and founded the Schneider department store. The couple had two children, Friedrich (born February 5, 1905) and Else (born April 25, 1908). The "tailor Jud", as he was called in St. Johann, was considered a poor man's tailor because he granted discounts to those in need. Nonetheless, as early as 1932 an NSDAP council protested against orders for laundry items in the Schneider department store by the community. Shortly after the annexation of Austria , the local NSDAP set up guards in front of Schneider's shop in order to be able to track down those people who continued to shop there despite the anti-Semitic agitation. In 1938 the family was expelled from St. Johann to Vienna and all of their property was “Aryanized”. The couple's last residential address was Vienna 9, Grünentorgasse 10, on October 23, 1941, both were deported to the Łódź Ghetto , where Karl Schneider was murdered on June 28, 1942. His wife was murdered a little later in the Chelmno extermination camp . His daughter Else, who married Felix Preis in Salzburg in 1933 and had two children with him, Peter and Eva, was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto on August 20, 1942, together with her family . Her husband was killed there on February 29, 1944. She was murdered with her two young children on May 16, 1944 in Auschwitz concentration camp . The only survivor of the family was their son Friedrich, who had studied medicine, worked as a doctor in Pongau and was able to emigrate to England in 1939. In 1949, he requested the death certificates for his parents, sister and brother-in-law, niece and nephew. He died in Bromsgrove , Worcestershire in 1983 .
	HANSI THALER JG LIVED HERE . 1937 HEALANSTALT AM SPIEGELGRUND MURDERED 9.9.1942	Hauptstrasse 4	Johann Thaler was born on June 12, 1937 and murdered on September 9, 1942 in the Viennese institution Am Spiegelgrund . The parents were Johann and Katharina Thaler, the family lived on Hauptstrasse No. 4 in St. Johann im Pongau. He survived a disease of meninges and pleurisy, which he contracted when he was one and a half years. However, he subsequently suffered from balance problems and had lost his hearing. As a result, his development was also impaired and he was increasingly in need of care. After an application for institutional care by the Gaufürsorgeamt ( Reichsstatthalter and Gaufürsorgeämt were requested to report through Action T4 ) he was brought to Vienna on August 25, 1942, to the curative educational institution on Spiegelgrund . The initial examination was carried out by Heinrich Gross "A boy with a physically almost normal development for his age and a relatively good nutritional state [...] the child hears nothing [...] during the examination the child is very rascal, he cannot be contacted [...] at all." Share in what is happening in his environment ”. On September 7th, his health deteriorated rapidly, he was not given any food or fluids, and he was given Luminal injections, which reduced lung function. He died on September 9, 1942. The cause of death was given as “deafness, dementia and pneumonia”. The parents received the body of their child in a coffin, and Hansi Thaler was buried in the cemetery in St. Johann am Pongau. For medical research (also after 1945) Hansi Thaler had his brain removed, and in April 2002 it was buried together with 788 other brains in a Viennese grave of honor.
	JOHANN TRAUSNER JG LIVED HERE . 1908 Witness of Jehovah arrested 9.9.1939 SACHSENHAUSEN murdered 24.10.1941 NEUENGAMME	Liechtensteinklammstrasse 3	Johann Trausner was born on December 26, 1908 in Vorchdorf . He was a cement manufacturer and married Rosalia Ahornegger on March 4, 1939 in Rauris . Pastor Josef Lackner performed the wedding ceremony. It was not until his wedding night that he confessed to his wife that he was a Jehovah's Witness . The couple lived on note 110. Already on September 9, 1939, five months after the wedding, Trausner was arrested by the St. Johann gendarmerie because he refused to give the Hitler salute and join the SA. He was transferred to the Salzburg police prison , after which Trausner was sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp without trial . Further proceedings against him revealed that he was a member of Jehovah's Witnesses. He was deported to Neuengamme concentration camp (near Hamburg) and strictly refused to obey all orders that he could not obey for reasons of faith. Among other things, he refused to properly greet SS members by removing their hats. According to reports from fellow inmates, he also complained in writing to the camp management about harassment to which Jehovah's Witnesses were exposed. Thereupon he came to the detention bunker. Trausner was murdered in Neuengamme on October 24, 1941. The death certificate reads: "8 times through the chest (shot by order of the Führer and Reich Chancellor)".
	IN ST. JOHANN WOHNTE ANTON WIMMER JG. 1901 DEPORTED May 21, 1941 HARTHEIM CASTLE MURDERED 1941	Hauptstrasse 35	Anton Wimmer was born on July 16, 1901 in Saalfelden , the illegitimate son of the farmer Johann Eckinger and the farm worker Barbara Wimmer. His parents are likely to have married later, but he kept his mother's maiden name. He attended elementary school in Saalfelden and became a laborer and farm worker, including on the Oberlehen estate in St. Johann Ginau. On April 15, 1941, he traveled to the city ​​of Salzburg and sought admission to the state hospital for the mentally ill . His resilience had decreased in recent years, he felt very weakened and was hoping for help. The admission findings also show a lack of concentration and a pain and movement problem on the left shoulder. The doctors diagnosed schizophrenia, it was hereditary and reported. The then common therapy for schizophrenia, Cardiazol , artificially triggered epileptic seizures. Not only did it not lead to any success with Anton Wimmer, but it also confused him increasingly as to why the preparation was discontinued. There were no grants or other therapies. On May 21, 1941, he was transferred with the fourth and last transport in an omnibus from Salzburg to Hartheim Castle, a killing facility of the Nazi regime. There he - like other 262 victims from the Salzburg clinic - was murdered in a gas chamber.
	KASPAR WIND JG LIVED HERE . 1902 ARRESTED IN THE RESISTANCE July 11, 1944 MAUTHAUSEN MURDERED October 28, 1944	Pöllnstrasse 2	Kaspar Wind (born on September 11, 1902 in Forstau ) was a skilled machine fitter, worked as a concrete goods manufacturer in St. Johann im Pongau and was a committed opponent of National Socialism . This was also publicly known, because as early as 1932 he confronted a member of the traditional costume club because he was wearing a Nazi badge. After the annexation of Austria to the so-called Third Reich , members of the opposition met regularly in his house (Markt Pongau No. 67) to listen to so-called enemy broadcasts . In February 1942 he was arrested together with Josef Höller, Alfred Schützer, Franz Pirz (all from St. Johann im Pongau) and Hedwig Schmidpeter, a bishop of the bishopric. The Nazi regime accused them of "endangering the resistance of the German people" and of having deliberately spread the news they had heard. Kaspar Wind was also charged with having known Karl Rupitsch and having been supplied with meat by him that had been slaughtered without notification to the authorities. Rupitsch was admitted to the Markt Pongau court prison in November 1941 for black slaughter. Thereupon Wind - together with the gendarmerie officer Wilhelm Anderle, the freight carrier Alois Buder and the prison administrator Anna Wimpissinger - organized his escape to Taxenbach. Kaspar Wind was deported to Mauthausen concentration camp on August 12, 1944 , his prisoner number was 82,838. Together with his comrades Karl Rupitsch, Alois Buder and August Egger , he was executed on October 28, 1944 on the orders of the Reichsführer SS, Heinrich Himmler .

Laying data

Stumbling block for Hansi Thaler

The Stolpersteine ​​in St. Johann im Pongau were laid by Gunter Demnig personally on the following days:

• July 3, 2014: Hauptstraße 4, Wagrainerstraße 6
• July 15, 2015: Liechtensteinklammstrasse 3, Pöllnstrasse 2, Südtirolersiedlung 22
• September 20, 2019: Hauptstrasse 35

See also

• List of places with stumbling blocks

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Goldegger Wehrmacht deserters: Theresia Buder, b. Steinlechner , accessed August 27, 2015; Baptismal register of the parish St. Johann im Pongau, vol. XV fol. 154/104.
2. ↑ History workshop St. Johann im Pongau : Franz Furtner , accessed on December 15, 2019
3. ↑ Stadtbuch St. Johann im Pongau , a publication by the city of St. Johann, ed. by Gerhard Moser, St. Johann im Pongau 2005, 308 and victim database of the DÖW
4. ↑ History workshop St. Johann im Pongau: Gertraud Oberreiter , text by Christina Nöbauer, accessed on December 15, 2019
5. ↑ See also Christina Nöbauer: Sacrifice of Time , About the fate of former residents of the Caritas-Anstalt St. Anton in the time of National Socialism, StudienVerlag 2016
6. ↑ History workshop St. Johann im Pongau: Biographies , accessed on August 27, 2015
7. ↑ History workshop St. Johann im Pongau: Biographies , accessed on August 27, 2015
8. ↑ biography of Hansi Thaler on the website of the history workshop St. Johann im Pongau. Retrieved August 27, 2015 . 
9. ↑ Waltraud Häupl: The murdered children from Spiegelgrund. Böhlau-Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3205774730
10. ^ Waltraud Häupl: The organized mass murder of children and young people in the Ostmark 1940-1945. Böhlau-Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3205777298
11. ↑ Lila Winkel: Trausner Johann , accessed on August 27, 2015
12. ↑ History workshop St. Johann im Pongau: Anton Wimmer , accessed on December 16, 2019
13. ^ The Goldegger Wehrmacht deserters: Kaspar Wind , accessed on August 27, 2015

Web links

Commons : Stolpersteine ​​in St. Johann im Pongau  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Stolpersteine.eu , Demnig's website
• History workshop St. Johann im Pongau

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