Wilhelm Werner (Aktion T4 victim)

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Wilhelm Werner (born September 18, 1898 in Schniegling near Nuremberg ; murdered October 6, 1940 in the Pirna-Sonnenstein killing center ) was a German psychiatric patient and inmate known for his drawings on his forced sterilization . He fell victim to the National Socialist murder . Werner grew up in Nordheim am Main . In 1919 he came to the sanatorium and nursing home in Werneck with the diagnosis of ' idiocy ' and was transferred from there in 1940 to the killing center in Pirna-Sonnenstein.

In the drawings he made between 1934 and 1938, he dealt with his forced sterilization during his stay in the Werneck sanatorium. The pictures were exhibited for the first time in 2010 in the Prinzhorn Collection in Heidelberg .

literature

  • Wilhelm Werner: Sterelation drawings, bilingual edition English-German. Verlag Das Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-88423-470-9 . With contributions by the art historian Dr. Thomas Röske and the medical historian Dr. Maike Rotzoll. ( Publisher link )
  • Bettina Brand-Claussen: cause of death: euthanasia. Wunderhorn Aug 2012, ISBN 978-3-88423-204-0
  • Frank Schneider and Petra Lutz (Eds.): Captured, traced, destroyed./registered, persecuted, annihilated. 2014 ( partial online view )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kate Connolly: 'Miraculous survival': asylum patient whose art documented his sterilization by the Nazis . In: The Guardian . January 6, 2020, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed January 15, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Thomas Schmelter: National Socialist Psychiatry in Bavaria. The evacuation of the sanatoriums and nursing homes. Baden-Baden, 2000. ISBN 978-3935176033 .
personal data
SURNAME Werner, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatric patient and prison inmate
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Schniegling near Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1940
Place of death Pirna-Sonnenstein killing center