Saggen quarter
Jänner 2008 © Thomas Kleissl
4, Gänsbacherstraße
Karl and Alice Bauer, née Klein lived with their children Alois and Gerda Anna in 4, Gänsbacherstraße. He was co-owner of the department store “Bauer and Schwarz”, todays “Kaufhaus Tyrol”. He was assaulted in his apartment, seriously injured and taken to the hospital during the morning hours. He survived for 20 years after this, all the time suffering from his injuries. (II)
Karl Bauer (a)
Gerda Anna Bauer, mar. Schoenfeld died on March 24th, 2020 at the age of 101 in Berkeley, California (Obituary). On June 2nd, 2008, Philipp Rohrbach conducted an interview (to read and listen) with Gerda Anna Schoenfeld for the Austrian Heritage Collection.
Jänner 2008 © Thomas Kleissl
5, Gänsbacherstraße
At number five Dr. Wilhelm Bauer and his wife Edith, née Hohenberg lived together with their two children Thomas and Eva. Engineer Richard and Margarethe Graubart and their four and a half year-old daughter Vera Evelyne also lived there. In the night from 9 November to 10 November Wilhelm Bauer and Richard Graubart were stabbed to death.
Wilhelm, Edith, Eva and Thomas Bauer (b,c,d,e)
Richard Graubart (f)
A few days after the attack Edith Bauer and her children Thomas and Eva fled to Canada. Eva married Ernest Dimand and died on April 1st, 2010 in Toronto. (I)
Flora Bauer, Wilhelm’s mother, lived with her second son Stefan at 40, Andreas-Hofer-Straße where she was attacked and injured that night.
Alfred Graubart brother of Richard Graubart, and his wife Maria were attacked at 8, Haydnplatz .
The Aryanized flat of the Graubart family was given to the mayor of Innsbruck, the former Landeshauptmann and Gauleiter of the NSDAP Tyrol Edmund Christoph. (I)
update 14.07.2023
Notes:
I wanna thank Katarina Hohenberg-Stahre for the pictures of family Wilhelm and Edith Bauer and Horst Schreiber for the photo of Karl Bauer.
Katarina Hohenberg-Stahre´s guestbook entry on January 14th, 2002: “Most interesting site. Me myself is the granddaughter of Edith Hohenbergs brother Egon from Vienna. I´ve pictures of Wilhelm “Willy” Bauer and their children. I´m willing to share these if someone is interested.” Katarina Hohenberg-Stahre
Translation:
(I) Gerhard Buzas
(II) Johanna Dehler
Literature:
Christoph W. Bauer < Graubart Boulevard > Haymon Verlag Innsbruck-Wien 2008
Christoph W. Bauer < "I never liked the cold - Mit Vera Graubart im Gespräch" > in: in: Die zweite Fremde – Zehn jüdische Lebensbilder, Haymon Verlag Innsbruck-Wien 2013, S 155-172
Horst Christoph < Der vergrabene Ehrendolch – Leben in einer nationalsozialistischen Familie > in: profil Nr. 10, 7. März 1988, S 86 ff
Michael Gehler < Spontaner Ausdruck des “Volkszorns”?, Neue Aspekte zum Innsbrucker Judenpogrom vom 9./10. November 1938 > in: Zeitgeschichte, 18.Jahr, Okt.1990-Dez.1991, Heft 1-12
Gretl Köfler < Die “Reichskristallnacht” > in: Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes (Hg.) – Widerstand und Verfolgung in Tirol 1934 bis 1945 – Österreichischer Bundesverlag Wien 1984, Band 1, S 448-462
Philipp Rohrbach < Interview with Gerda Anna Schoenfeld > Austrian Heritage Collection, 02.06.2008
Horst Schreiber < Nationalsozialismus und Faschismus in Tirol und Südtirol – Opfer . Täter . Gegner > Tiroler Studien zu Geschichte und Politik, Michael-Gaismair-Gesellschaft, StudienVerlag 2008
Horst Schreiber < Jüdische Geschäfte in Innsbruck - Eine Spurensuche > Projekt des Abendgymnasiums Innsbruck; Tiroler Studien zu Geschichte und Politik 1, Michael-Gaismair-Gesellschaft (Hg.) , StudienVerlag 2001, S 55-56
Horst Schreiber < Die "Arisierung" der Innsbrucker Firma Alois Hermann > in: Tiroler Heimat, Band 64, 2000, S 237-258
Gad Hugo Sella < Die Juden Tirols – Ihr Leben und Schicksal > Israel 1979
Picture credits:
(a) Private ownership Horst Schreiber
(b, c, d, e) © Private ownership Katarina Hohenberg-Stahre
(f) Horst Schreiber – http://www.eduard-wallnoefer-platz.at/pogromdenkmal/das-novemberpogrom-in-innsbruck
References:
Ron Bower – various emails, Visit Innsbruck 2006
Katarina Hohenberg-Stahre – various emails
Dr. Franz Lakner pointed me to the interview with Gerda Anna Schoenberg and to the obituary – email 19.06.2023