Ludwig Friessnegg
The Viennese Ludwig Friessnegg (* 1897 , † 1966 ), together with his wife Anna Friessnegg, campaigned for persecuted Jews during the National Socialist dictatorship. Since 1984 he has been the Austrian Righteous Among the Nations .
Friessnegg and his wife were the parents of the helpers Anna Manzer and Edi Stecher . In 1944, they helped the Hungarian Jew Melvine Deutsch, looked after her and hid her in her apartment when there was a threat of being discovered by the Gestapo and deported .
German was previously in a forced labor camp of the company Siemens in Floridsdorf, Vienna . When she was deported from the camp in a transport to the Mauthausen concentration camp , she fled the train on the way and came to Vienna, where she did not know anyone. In her desperate situation, she turned to Anna Manzer from Vienna, who had been unknown to her until then.
The Gestapo did not give up the search for the Germans who had fled from the transport to Mauthausen . When danger threatened her in Manzer's apartment, she turned to her brother. Deutsch stayed with Stecher for a few months without being discovered by the Gestapo .
However, the Friessnegg children did not have enough rationed food. So her parents jumped in and provided the hidden German with food. Often, Deutsch had to be brought to their apartment when the Gestapo was looking for Jews in the area. After the liberation, Deutsch was able to leave her apartment safely.
His wife, Anna Friessnegg, as well as Anna Manzer and Edi Stecher are also Austrian Righteous Among the Nations .
Web links
- The righteous of Austria
- maislinger.net
- Ludwig Friessnegg on the website of Yad Vashem (English)
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| SURNAME | Friessnegg, Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian Righteous Among the Nations |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1897 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1966 |