Martinsgasse 14 + Lederergasse 13 (laid in 2015)
Adolf Schlänger, Irma and Edith Schlinger
Separation and shared death in Maly Trostinec
Adolf Schlänger (Schlinger), born January 29, 1882, in Mattersdorf,
wife Friederike “Frieda” Schlinger, née Rosenzweig, born November 24, 1895, in Vienna,
daughters Irma (born 1921, Vienna) and Edith (born 1931, Wiener Neustadt),
son Erich (born 1922, Wiener Neustadt).
Divorce on December 11, 1934; second wife Martha Berger (born 1898, Hohenau).
Deportation of Adolf Schlinger and his daughters Irma and Edith on May 20, 1942, to Maly Trostinec, where they were murdered on May 26, 1942. Both wives survived.
The scrap dealer and cellar master Adolf Schlinger returned to Wiener Neustadt after being demobilized from World War I service. From 1919 he lived at Pognergasse 17, worked as a commercial clerk, and married in May 1920. With his wife Friederike “Frieda” Rosenzweig, he initially had two children, daughter Irma and son Erich. Erich, however, died on July 11, 1930, of septic pneumonia and endocarditis. Treatment at Wiener Neustadt’s hospital could no longer save him. Only in 1931 was the younger daughter Edith born.
The couple and their family lived after World War I until the 1930s at Rosengasse 15, where the business was also registered. Adolf was a scrap and metal dealer, but he also traded in rags, that is, old textiles, and in bones.
On December 11, 1934, Adolf divorced his wife and subsequently married the midwife Martha (Marta) Berger. In December 1934, he took lodgings at Kurzegasse 8, and in 1937 moved with his second wife (whom he had married on October 24, 1937, in the synagogue on Tempelgasse in Vienna) into Martinsgasse 14. His two daughters remained with their mother at Rosengasse 15. In 1936, Friederike and the daughters relocated to Johannesgasse 12, and in May 1937 to Lederergasse 13/II/9. They were later deregistered to various addresses in Vienna.
All three—Adolf, Irma, and Edith—were deported on May 20, 1942, to Maly Trostinec, where they were murdered on May 26, 1942. Both wives, Friederike and Martha, do not appear among the victims of the Shoah and seem to have survived.
Werner Sulzgruber
Note: From 1934 onwards, the name for Sigmund and Adolf was recorded in documents as “Schlänger,” while the other family members retained the form “Schlinger.”