Julie PAUER was born in the Upper Austrian city of Steyr on April 4, 1875 and was baptized in the Roman Catholic Church. She was a daughter of Anna Fent and her husband Josef Fent who was a gunsmith in Steyr.
Their daughter Julie was widowed when, at the age of 51, she married the tax official Friedrich Pauer in the Salzburg parish of Mülln.
The couple lived on the first floor of 11 Reichenhaller Straße in the Riedenburg neighborhood of Salzburg.
Based on the few available documents, it is clear that Julie PAUER was admitted to the Salzburg State Hospital for the Mentally Ill on November 17, 1936 and was declared legally incompetent.
A diagnosis and designation as unable to work were the decisive reasons for the murder of the handicapped under Nazi rule. Julie PAUER was one of 85 patients from the Salzburg State Hospital for the Mentally Ill who were deported from Salzburg to the Hartheim killing center on May 21, 1941 — where they were all murdered.
As with all of the victims of the Nazi’s secret »T4«1 extermination campaign, the death of 66 year old Julie PAUER was not recorded in the police registration files in Salzburg.
Her widowed husband remarried and left Salzburg during WWII.
1 It was called »T4« because the »euthanasia« campaign’s headquarters was located at Tiergartenstraße 4 in Berlin.
Those primarily responsible in Salzburg for the murder of the handicapped were: Dr. Friedrich Rainer as Reich Governor, Dr. Oskar Hausner as Head of the District Welfare Office, Dr. Leo Wolfer as Head of the State Sanatorium, and Dr. Heinrich Wolfer as Head of the Genetic Biology Department of the State Sanatorium (now called the Christian Doppler Clinic).
Sources
- War Crimes Records of the U.S. Judge Advocate Division Headquarters (The National Archives Washington DC)
- Birth-and marriage registers of the Linz Diocese and the Salzburg Archdiocese
- Police registration files and local citizenship records (Salzburg City and State archives)
Translation: Stan Nadel
Stumbling Stone
Laid at Salzburg, Reichenhaller Str. 11
