Rudolf Hatschek (doctor)

Rudolf Hatschek (born February 12, 1874 in Vienna ; died August 12, 1939 there ) was an Austrian doctor . In the course of the Holocaust , his widow Helene Hatschek and his son Wilhelm were murdered in the Maly Trostinez extermination camp .

Life

Hatschek was in 1898 at the University of Vienna as a Doctor of Medicine Ph.D. , was then probably worked as assistant physician in Vienna and settled on 1 February 1905 as a general practitioner in Atzgersdorf down. He was a social democrat and was considered a “people's doctor”. After the annexation of Austria he fell under the provisions of the Nuremberg Laws and was banned from working. He died in 1939 in his apartment in Vienna-Atzgersdorf. The historian Sergio Luzzatto describes Hatschek in an article for the daily newspaper La Stampaas "medico di buona fama" (doctor with a good reputation) and names suicide as the likely cause of death in anticipation of the coming world war and the so-called final solution .

On June 2, 1942, his widow Helene Hatschek, b. Pokorny (born on February 25, 1880) and his son Wilhelm Hatschek (born on April 23, 1916) with Transport 24 Zug Da 205 from Vienna to Minsk , where they were murdered in the Maly Trostinez extermination camp .

Commemoration

Memorial stone for Helene and Wilhelm Hatschek

• On May 19, 1954, the park at Schrailplatz in Atzgersdorf was named Dr.-Rudolf-Hatschek-Park by resolution of the municipal council committee for culture .
• In front of the last residence of the Hatschek family at Bahngasse 18 in Vienna-Liesing , a memorial stone for Helene and Wilhelm Hatschek was laid in November 2014 by the Stones of Remembrance Initiative in Liesing , the two names can also be found in the list of Liesinger victims of National Socialism 1938 -1945 .

literature

• Hatschek, Rudolf. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (ed.); accessed on February 6, 2019
• Rudolf Hatschek in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
• Felix Czeike (Ed.): Dr.-Rudolf-Hatschek-Park. In:  Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 2, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-218-00544-2 , p. 105 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Hatschek  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berthold Weinrich: Lower Austrian Medical Chronicle. History of medicine and medicine in Lower Austria. Möbius, Vienna 1990, p. 455.
2. ↑ Rudolf Hatschek. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)
3. ^ Peter Autengruber : Parks and Gardens in Vienna. Promedia, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85371-281-8 , p. 229.
4. ↑ Sergio Luzzatto : Primo Levi, quel suicidio non si lega ai partigiani , La Stampa (Turin), June 4, 2013
5. ↑ David, Jewish cultural magazine: Persecuted, expelled, murdered ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . For a lasting memory through street names in Vienna 23rd, accessed on June 26, 2015
6. ^ Peter Autengruber: Lexicon of Viennese street names. Meaning, origin, background information, previous designation (s). Vienna Pichler-Verlag, 9th edition 2014
7. ^ Liesinger Victims of National Socialism 1938–1945 , accessed on February 6, 2019.