Georg Max PRECHTL was born in Julbach Bavaria on September 2, 1893. He was a married Catholic with two sons and a daughter. He was a locksmith or machinist and became a foreman.

Starting in 1919 the family lived at 9 Schillinghofstraße in Gnigl (which was annexed to the city of Salzburg in 1935). His daughter Maximiliane died when he was ten years old in 1930.

Georg PRECHTL was admitted to the Salzburg State Asylum on June 9, 1937 and was one of the 82 patients deported from there to the Hartheim Castle killing center near Linz on April 17, 1941 – where they were all murdered.

As with all the other victims of the Nazis’ secret »T4«1 program, the death of 47 year old Georg PRECHTL was not recorded in the Salzburg police registration files.

His widow Johanna PRECHTL and their two surviving sons Wilhelm and Georg Max left Salzburg after its liberation in 1945.

1 »T-4«: named after the »euthanasia« headquarters in Berlin, Tiergartenstraße 4.
Those mainly responsible for the murders of the sick in Salzburg: Dr. Friedrich Rainer as Reichsstatthalter, Dr. Oskar Hausner as head of the Gaufürsorgeamt, Dr. Leo Wolfer as head of the Landesheilanstalt and Dr. Heinrich Wolfer as head of the hereditary biology department of the Landesheilanstalt (today Christian Doppler Clinic).

Sources

  • Salzburg city archives
  • Schloss Hartheim Learning and Remembrance Center
Author: Gert Kerschbaumer
Translation: Stan Nadel

Stumbling Stone
Laid 13.07.2015 at Salzburg, Schillinghofstraße 9

<p>HIER WOHNTE<br />
GEORG MAX PRECHTL<br />
JG. 1893<br />
DEPORTIERT 17.4.1941<br />
SCHLOSS HARTHEIM<br />
ERMORDET 1941</p>
Photo: Gert Kerschbaumer

All stumbling stones at Schillinghofstraße 9