Mathilde Fischer

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Mathilde Emma Fischer (born December 18, 1904 in Ulm , † April 22, 1941 in Hadamar ) is a German victim of Nazi racial hygiene . She was murdered in the Hadamar killing center in the course of the T4 euthanasia murders .

Life

Mathilde "Hilde" Fischer was the third child of the businessman Friedrich Wilhelm Fischer and his wife Emma Elisabeth. Due to the fact that she was born prematurely, she was physically and psychologically limited and therefore was particularly cared for in her family and grew up well protected. She graduated from the girls 'secondary school in Ulm, attended a home economics school and later helped in her parents' delicatessen shop.

Due to an illness, she was admitted to the diaconal nursing home (today: Gottlob-Weißer-Haus ) in Schwäbisch Hall in 1937 . After the confiscation of this house on November 10, 1940, she was first transferred to the Christophsbad sanatorium in Göppingen on November 19, 1940 , and on March 27, 1941, as "unhealed" to the Weinsberg intermediate institution without her parents' knowledge . Her parents were billed for her stay there.

On April 22, 1941 Mathilde Fischer was part of the "Action T4" with 63 other patients from Weinberg picked up and with a gray bus of Gekrat brought to the extermination Hadamar. There she was murdered in the gas chamber on the same day .

Her parents were officially informed in May 1941 that Mathilde had died of pneumonia . They were later sent the urn with the ashes of their daughter, who was buried in the family grave in the Ulm cemetery.

Stumbling block for Mathilde Fischer

Commemoration

On September 14, 2015, the artist Gunter Demnig moved to a stumbling block in memory of Mathilde Fischer at her former place of residence at Neuen Straße 32 (then Glöcklerstraße 27) in Ulm . This was made possible by the commitment of the civic initiative “Stolpersteine ​​für Ulm”, which had researched the biography of the Nazi victim in advance.

Mathilde Fischer's name is also recorded in the database of victims and in the memorial book of the Hadamar Memorial .

Her memory and that of the other victims of the murders in Hadamar will also be preserved through film and video reports on the stories of suffering in the killing center and the laying of the stumbling blocks. As part of a project by students from the Don Bosco School in Hegenberg , run by the Liebenau Foundation , Mathilde Fischer was one of the people represented in December 2018 on behalf of the victims of "Aktion T4".

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stolperstein Initiative Ulm (ed.): Stolpersteine ​​Ulm . 2015 ( online [PDF] flyer).
  2. ^ A b c d Angelika Liske, Dietbald Fischer: Mathilde Fischer. In: stolpersteine-fuer-ulm.de. Retrieved on May 19, 2020 (with photo by Mathilde Fischer).
  3. ↑ Rudi Kübler: Mayor Gönner urges people to stand up for tolerance and democracy . In: Südwest Presse . September 15, 2015 ( online [accessed May 19, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Euthanasia Commemoration: Project at the Don Bosco School. In: stiftung-liebenau.de. December 4, 2018, accessed May 19, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Mathilde
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fischer, Mathilde (full name); Fischer, Matilde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German victim of National Socialist racial hygiene as part of "Action T4"
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1941
Place of death Hadamar