{"id":5792,"date":"2023-07-27T11:58:56","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T09:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.die-verleugneten.de\/uncategorized\/rudolf-the-beggar-with-the-harmonica\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T17:52:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T16:52:32","slug":"rudolf-the-beggar-with-the-harmonica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.die-verleugneten.de\/en\/your-stories\/rudolf-the-beggar-with-the-harmonica\/","title":{"rendered":"Rudolf &#8211; The beggar with the harmonica"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><strong>\u00bbIf I reported him, he said, he would never be set free.\u00ab<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In 2022, Alfons L. Ims published a book about his family\u2019s fate under National Socialism<em>\u00bbEine \u203a<a tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"glossary\" data-bs-toggle=\"popover\" data-bs-trigger=\"hover focus\" title=\"asozial\" data-bs-content-id=\"popover-id-3955\" aria-label=\"asozial - Glossary term\">asozial<\/a>e\u2039 Pf\u00e4lzer Familie. Wie in der NS-Zeit aus einem Sozialfall moralische Minderwertigkeit gemacht wurde\u00ab<\/em>. During his research, the author got in touch with another relative who had examined files about her great-grandfather, Rudolf Krieg. In his article, Alfons L. Ims recalls the life of Rudolf Krieg.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While researching my own family, I came across a great-granddaughter of Rudolf Krieg. She had delved into the history of her great-grandfather and collected numerous documents from various files. From these, the life of Rudolf Krieg could be reconstructed &#8211; albeit incompletely. With this article, I aim to commemorate him as one of the disavowed victims of National Socialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-boom-spacer\" style=\"height:2rem\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/www.die-verleugneten.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/krieg-rudolf-01-wolfe-skulpturen-mahn-und-gedenkstaette-ravensbrueck-pawelke-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\u00bbSkulpturen gegen das Vergessen\u00ab (\u00bbSculptures against Oblivion\u00ab) by Stuart N. R. Wolfe, permanent installation at the former Ravensbr\u00fcck concentration camp\" class=\"wp-image-3966\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.die-verleugneten.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/krieg-rudolf-01-wolfe-skulpturen-mahn-und-gedenkstaette-ravensbrueck-pawelke-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.die-verleugneten.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/krieg-rudolf-01-wolfe-skulpturen-mahn-und-gedenkstaette-ravensbrueck-pawelke-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.die-verleugneten.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/krieg-rudolf-01-wolfe-skulpturen-mahn-und-gedenkstaette-ravensbrueck-pawelke-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.die-verleugneten.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/krieg-rudolf-01-wolfe-skulpturen-mahn-und-gedenkstaette-ravensbrueck-pawelke-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.die-verleugneten.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/krieg-rudolf-01-wolfe-skulpturen-mahn-und-gedenkstaette-ravensbrueck-pawelke-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The \u00bbSculptures against Oblivion\u00ab by British sculptor Stuart Wolfe have stood in the former tailor&#8217;s workshop at the Ravensbr\u00fcck concentration camp memorial site since 1996. Each of the sculptures has a coloured corner on its lapel, which stands for the respective group of prisoners. <br><sub>Source: Mahn- und Gedenkst\u00e4tte Ravensbr\u00fcck, Britta Pawelke<\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-boom-spacer\" style=\"height:2rem\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Rudolf Krieg was born on 12 July 1914 in Bad Vilbel, Hesse. The youngest of four sons, his father was a day labourer. Not much else is known about his family. Official records describe his father as an alcoholic and his grandparents as either alcoholics or \u00bbmentally disturbed\u00ab. One of his brothers served in the state police, while the others had prior convictions for begging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rudolf Krieg&#8217;s childhood and youth were marked by illness. He struggled in school, failed to advance twice, and left without qualifications \u2013 an illness confined him to bed. He began two apprenticeships, first as a brass turner and later as a gardener, but had to abandon both due to illness. He spent a year and a half in the Bethel institution and the Kalmenhof special education centre in Idstein, where doctors treated him for a nervous disorder. He was 19 years old upon his release. It is nearly impossible to reconstruct how Rudolf Krieg experienced this period. He rarely had the opportunity to speak for himself; instead, the National Socialists mostly spoke about him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1934, Rudolf Krieg and his partner, Anna Eschert, were expecting a child. However, while still pregnant, Anna Eschert was hospitalised with gonorrhoea, a sexually transmitted infection. The Municipal Welfare Office submitted an application to the Hereditary Health Court for her sterilisation. Their daughter, Margot, was born in February 1935, and in October of the same year, Anna Eschert was forcibly sterilised on the grounds of \u00bbcongenital feeblemindedness\u00ab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During this time, Rudolf was arrested and convicted three times for begging. In an expert report prepared by forensic doctor Ferdinand Wiethold, Rudolf Krieg stated that he \u00bbplayed the harmonica on farms without holding a trade licence\u00ab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rudolf and Anna married without official approval in Frankfurt in January 1936. Just two days later, his military service began. The absence of this approval led the district court in Frankfurt am Main to annul their marriage. The justification given was Anna Eschert&#8217;s forced sterilisation. In 1937, Rudolf Krieg was sentenced to three months in prison for \u00bbobtaining a prohibited marriage\u00ab. Although the authorities dropped the case against Anna Eschert, she passed away in Frankfurt in February 1938 at just 28 years old. The cause of her death is not documented in the available files. At the time, her daughter Margot was only three years old and was raised by an aunt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rudolf Krieg spent 1938 and 1939 in the Frankfurt mental hospital and the Weilm\u00fcnster state sanatorium. The files do not indicate how he came to be admitted. In Weilm\u00fcnster, he was diagnosed with \u00bbunstable, weak-willed, asocial psychopathy and congenital imbecility\u00ab. The experts were harsh in their assessment, claiming that Rudolf Krieg \u00bbtried to conceal his mental weaknesses with a superior smile and a self-confident demeanour\u00ab. This is one of the few instances where we learn something about Rudolf Krieg beyond accusations and convictions\u2014though it is far from impartial. Based on this report, the Weilburg health authority informed the hereditary health court in Limburg an der Lahn, resulting in Rudolf Krieg\u2019s forced sterilisation in February 1940. He was released one week after the procedure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Frankfurt health department closely monitored Rudolf Krieg. In November 1941, they reported to the criminal investigation department that Rudolf Krieg was working as a pimp. A woman confirmed this in her statement, describing how Rudolf Krieg took most of her earnings as a prostitute. She understood the gravity of her accusation and stated: \u00bbIf I reported him, he said, he would never be released.\u00ab One month later, Rudolf Krieg was taken into custody. In 1942, the Frankfurt district court sentenced him to one year in prison. However, the National Socialists deemed individuals with prior convictions \u00bbunworthy of defence\u00ab, so his sentence was postponed until the end of the war. Reich Minister of Justice Otto Thierack justified this delay as a way to remove the \u00bbcowardly and dishonourable conscripts\u00ab incentive to evade military service through criminal acts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result, Rudolf Krieg was not sent to prison but was transferred directly from pre-trial detention to the Rodgau-Dieburg prison camp. After a year, Rudolf Krieg wrote to his mother, describing his suffering (\u00bbIt\u2019s terrible if I have to stay here any longer\u00ab) and pleading with her to petition the court on his behalf. In May 1943, his sentence was declared served. However, Rudolf Krieg was not released. In July 1943, the <a tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"glossary\" data-bs-toggle=\"popover\" data-bs-trigger=\"hover focus\" title=\"SS\" data-bs-content-id=\"popover-id-4003\" aria-label=\"SS - Glossary term\">SS<\/a> transferred him first to the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp and then to Ravensbr\u00fcck and Bergen-Belsen. He was categorised as a prisoner under the label \u00bbAso\u00ab, short for \u00bbasocial\u00ab. Rudolf Krieg never regained his freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-boom-spacer\" style=\"height:2rem\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.die-verleugneten.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/krieg-rudolf-02-illustration-stationen-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Rudolf Krieg's path of persecution\" class=\"wp-image-4040\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.die-verleugneten.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/krieg-rudolf-02-illustration-stationen-800x800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.die-verleugneten.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/krieg-rudolf-02-illustration-stationen-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.die-verleugneten.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/krieg-rudolf-02-illustration-stationen-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.die-verleugneten.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/krieg-rudolf-02-illustration-stationen-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.die-verleugneten.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/krieg-rudolf-02-illustration-stationen.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The National Socialists initially deported Rudolf Krieg to various forced labour institutions in Hesse and later to three concentration camps. The graphic illustrates his journey.<br><sub>Source: Stiftung Denkmal<\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-boom-spacer\" style=\"height:2rem\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Rudolf Krieg&#8217;s story illustrates how little remains of someone ensnared by the machinery of National Socialist persecution and how little it took to become entangled in it. Today, playing music without a trade licence is merely an administrative offence, marriage between two consenting adults requires no special approval, and pimping is legal as long as it is not coercive. Yet for such acts, Rudolf Krieg was sent to a concentration camp and ultimately to his death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rudolf Krieg&#8217;s brief life story reveals the close cooperation between health authorities, municipal welfare offices, hereditary health courts, and the police. Rather than supporting or assisting Rudolf Krieg, their efforts focused solely on protecting the National Socialist \u00bbnational community\u00ab. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the saying goes: Every man is the architect of his own fortune. But how can someone who has been burdened with so many obstacles, denied the necessary training, and provided with almost no tools become a capable craftsman, able to overcome these challenges? In a society shaped by a National Socialist, inhuman ideology that abandoned all humanity and empathy for the vulnerable and disadvantaged, this was simply impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to this ideology, Anna Eschert and Rudolf Krieg\u2019s daughter, Margot, should never have existed. Yet Margot gave birth to seven children, who in turn have 11 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. That means 34 people are alive today because Margot was born before her parents were forcibly sterilised. Through them, Rudolf Krieg and Anna Eschert live on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-boom-spacer\" style=\"height:2rem\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"popovers-wrapper\"><div id=\"popover-id-4003\" class=\"d-none\">\n<p>Die SS (\u00bbSchutzstaffel\u00ab) unter der Leitung von Heinrich Himmler versteht sich als elit\u00e4rer Wehrverband des nationalsozialistischen Staates. Mit der \u00dcbernahme und dem Umbau der Polizei durch Himmler wird die SS zum zentralen Terrorinstrument des Regimes. 1934 erh\u00e4lt sie erh\u00e4lt die Kontrolle \u00fcber s\u00e4mtliche Konzentrationslager. Das 1939 gebildete Reichssicherheitshauptamt, die Planungszentrale f\u00fcr die Verbrechen im deutsch besetzten Europa, ist ihr zugeordnet.<\/p>\n<\/div><div id=\"popover-id-3955\" class=\"d-none\">\n<p>Menschen werden als \u00bbasozial\u00ab bezeichnet und verfolgt, weil sie in der nationalsozialistischen \u00bbVolksgemeinschaft\u00ab keinen Platz haben. Das betrifft vor allem Arbeits- oder Wohnungslose, Bettler, F\u00fcrsorgeempf\u00e4nger\/-innen, Prostituierte oder unangepasste Jugendliche. Ihnen wird vorgeworfen, die Gemeinschaft zu gef\u00e4hrden. Bei ihrer Verfolgung arbeiten Beh\u00f6rden wie F\u00fcrsorge\u00e4mter, Justiz und Polizei zusammen. Sie schaffen ein engmaschiges Netz aus \u00dcberwachungs- und Zwangsma\u00dfnahmen.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00bbIf I reported him, he said, he would never be set free.\u00ab In 2022, Alfons L. Ims published a book about his family\u2019s fate under National Socialism\u00bbEine \u203aasoziale\u2039 Pf\u00e4lzer Familie. Wie in der NS-Zeit aus einem Sozialfall moralische Minderwertigkeit gemacht wurde\u00ab. 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