Bahngasse 38 (laid in 2022)
Hofrat Engineer Ludwig Thaussig
From a senior civil servant to death as a concentration camp prisoner
Hofrat Engineer Ludwig Thaussig, born on 18 February 1875 in Olmütz, Moravia, district construction head in Wiener Neustadt; Lina Thaussig, born on 29 June 1878 as Lina Hacker; daughter Lisbeth, born in 1904.
Ludwig Thaussig died in the Theresienstadt camp, Lina was liberated by the Red Army and survived. Their daughter Lisbeth emigrated with her family to Palestine before the “Anschluss” and later emigrated to the United States in 1956.
Ludwig Thaussig came to Wiener Neustadt at the end of the 19th century and married Lina Hacker in 1902. In 1904 their daughter Lisbeth was born. Ludwig Thaussig’s profession is listed as “k.k. Bauadjunkt der n.ö. Statthalterei” (Imperial-Royal assistant construction officer of the Lower Austrian provincial administration). In 1905 the family moved to the Bürgerhof at Bahngasse 38. In 1924 their daughter Lisbeth left the parental home.
In the 1930 Wiener Neustadt address book, Hofrat Ludwig Thaussig is listed as district construction head of the building office of the district administration of Wiener Neustadt. The office was responsible for construction services in the political districts of Baden, Mödling, Neunkirchen and Wiener Neustadt, as well as on the Trieste federal road from Traiskirchen to the provincial border.
On 5 August 1938 Ludwig and Lina Thaussig moved to Vienna 3, Dapontegasse 2, and their last address is listed as the shared apartment at Vienna 2, Haidgasse 10/11.
On 20 June 1942 Ludwig and Lina Thaussig were deported together with 996 others to Theresienstadt. There Ludwig Thaussig died on 29 March 1944 due to the inhumane conditions of imprisonment. His wife survived and was liberated with 34 inmates from the Vienna transport by the Red Army on 10 May 1945.
Their daughter Lisbeth Thaussig married in 1931 and had two children. The family emigrated to Palestine in 1935 and to the United States in 1956. After her liberation from Theresienstadt, Lina Thaussig also went to Palestine, where she died in 1948.
Anton Blaha, based on information from the victim’s great-granddaughter and his own research.