WIKIPEDIA notice ERNA KRONSHAGE - translated with deepl.com translator

Erna Kronshage

Erna Kronshage (* 12 December 1922 in Senne II (today Bielefeld-Sennestadt); † 20 February 1944 in the institution Tiegenhof near Gnesen (Polish Gniezno)) was a persecuted Nazi regime, who was forced sterilised and then murdered in the course of "Aktion Brandt".

Erna Kronshage - Portrait photo from around 1940









Table of Contents 
1 Life
2 Commemoration
3 See also
4 Literature
5 Weblinks
6 Individual verifications

Life
Erna Kronshage worked after school from 1937 as a "housedaughter" on the farm of her parents[1] in the then independent rural community Senne II, district Bielefeld (today Bielefeld-Sennestadt). When she suddenly refused to work in the autumn of 1942, on October 20, 1942, after an official medical examination, she was sent by the police to the Provinzial-Heilanstalt Gütersloh, where she was diagnosed with schizophrenia, which was treated there by work therapy in the garden and home economics and shock therapy. Because of this hereditary disease (according to the then Nazi nomenclature), the director of the sanatorium applied for "infertility" in accordance with the 1934 law for the prevention of hereditary offspring, against which her father Adolf Kronshage, as the guardian, vehemently objected and also doubted the diagnosis as a whole.

On July 22, 1943, the Hereditary Health High Court in Hamm finally rejected the complaint of the father against the decision of the Hereditary Health Court in Bielefeld of March 29, 1943 to "infertilization". Forced sterilization took place in a Gütersloh hospital on August 4, 1943. Repeated requests from the father to release his daughter from the provincial sanatorium were ignored.

Instead, in the course of the air-raid evacuations[2] of the "Aktion Brandt" to create bed capacities for hospital and military hospital purposes in the Gütersloh sanatorium, the "Aktion Brandt" went into operation on 12 March. November 1943[3] a transport of 50 women and 50 men to the then Gauheilanstalt Tiegenhof near Gnesen in occupied Poland, which became one of the killing institutions in German-occupied Poland under the prison director Victor Ratka, who collaborated with the German occupying forces. According to the current clinic management, at least 3586 people[4] of various nationalities were killed there in the course of Nazi euthanasia.

There Erna Kronshage died after 100 days there on 20 February 1944 from "complete exhaustion", as shown by the death certificate issued there. This was the usual description at the time of the targeted murder by a fatless diet with a slight barbiturate overdose according to the Luminal scheme developed and propagated by Hermann Paul Nitsche.

The death rate of the deportation transport from Gütersloh to Gnesen from 12 November 1943 was 90% until the end of the war.[5]
Erna Kronshage worked after school from 1937 as a "housedaughter" on the farm of her parents[1] in the then independent rural community Senne II, district Bielefeld (today Bielefeld-Sennestadt). When she suddenly refused to work in the autumn of 1942, on October 20, 1942, after an official medical examination, she was sent by the police to the Provinzial-Heilanstalt Gütersloh, where she was diagnosed with schizophrenia, which was treated there by work therapy in the garden and home economics and shock therapy. Because of this hereditary disease (according to the then Nazi nomenclature), the Director of the sanatorium applied for "infertility" in accordance with the 1934 law for the prevention of hereditary offspring, against which her father Adolf Kronshage, as the guardian, vehemently objected and also doubted the diagnosis as a whole.

On July 22, 1943, the Hereditary Health High Court in Hamm finally rejected the complaint of the father against the decision of the Hereditary Health Court in Bielefeld of March 29, 1943 to "infertilization". Forced sterilization took place in a Gütersloh hospital on August 4, 1943. Repeated requests from the father to release his daughter from the provincial sanatorium were ignored.

Instead, in the course of the air-raid evacuations[2] of the "Aktion Brandt" to create bed capacities for hospital and military hospital purposes in the Gütersloh sanatorium, the "Aktion Brandt" went into operation on 12 March. November 1943[3] a transport of 50 women and 50 men to the then Gauheilanstalt Tiegenhof near Gnesen in occupied Poland, which became one of the killing institutions in German-occupied Poland under the prison director Victor Ratka, who collaborated with the German occupying forces. According to the current clinic management, at least 3586 people[4] of various nationalities were killed there in the course of Nazi euthanasia.

Other historians assume an enormous number of unreported cases of total casualties in Tiegenhof. Enno Schwanke suspects in his work "Die Landesheil- und Pflegeanstalt Tiegenhof", 2015, that the true number of victims is probably about 5,000.[5]

There Erna Kronshage died after 100 days there on 20 February 1944 from "complete exhaustion", as shown by the death certificate issued there. This was the usual description at the time of the targeted murder by a fatless diet with a slight barbiturate overdose according to the Luminal scheme developed and propagated by Hermann Paul Nitsche.

The death rate of the deportation transport from Gütersloh to Gnesen from 12 November 1943 was 90% until the end of the war.[6]

The mortal remains of Erna Kronshages found their final resting place on 5 March 1944 in the family tomb at the cemetery in Senne II.

Commemoration

A "stumbling block" was laid in front of Erna Kronshage's birthplace in Bielefeld-Sennestadt on December 6, 2012.

"Places of remembrance" - in this memorial for 1017 victims of National Socialism at the Provinzialheilanstalt Gütersloh is called "Erna Kronshage" on a illuminated ribbon of names in the Kreuzkirche of the LWL-Klinik Gütersloh.

See also

body of literature
  • Lutz Kaelber: Virtual Traumascapes: The Commemoration of Nazi 'Children's Euthanasia' Online and On Site - University of Vermont, USA
  • Lutz Kaelber: Special Children's Wards: Sites of Nazi "Children's'Euthanasia'" Crimes and Their Commemoration in Europe - Tiegenhof

web links


individual verifications
  1. Editor: Horst R. H. Wasgindt, Sennestadt: Sennestadt - Geschichte einer Landschaft. Publisher: Sennestadt GmbH. 2nd edition. Self-published, Sennestadt 1980 (p. 294: Hof Nr. 6; p. 450-451: commentary and ill.).
  2. Götz Aly: Aktion T4 1939-1945 - The "Euthanasia" headquarters at Tiergartenstraße 4th ed.: Götz Aly. 2nd edition. Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-926175-66-4, p.174, footnote 21 (Restoration of the Usable - Killing of the Useless).
  3. Heinz Faulstich: Hungersterben in der Psychiatrie 1914-1949: with a topography of Nazi psychiatry. Lambertus, Freiburg im Breisgau 1998, ISBN 3-7841-0987-X, p.410-411.
  4. Marian Drogowski: Historia, Okres okupacji hitlerowskiej 11.09.1939-21.01.1945. In: Website of the Dziekanka Hospital - PL. Accessed April 25, 2016 (Polish).
  5. Enno Schwanke: Die Landesheil- und Pflegeanstalt Tiegenhof. In: Ina Ulrike Paul and Uwe Puschner (ed.): Zivilisation & Geschichte. Volume 28 Peter Lang GmbH, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-631-65236-7, p. 127.
  6. Bernd Walter: Psychiatry and Society in Modernity. Mental health care in the province of Westphalia between the Empire and the Nazi regime (= Research on regional history). Schöningh, Paderborn 1996, ISBN 3-506-79588-0, extract from table p. 945.


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