Blumengasse 5 (moved 2015)
Robert Schweiger
Murdered in Hartheim
Robert Schweiger, born on October 11, 1907, in Pöttsching, locksmith. Murdered on July 10, 1941, in the Hartheim killing facility.
Robert Schweiger lived with his parents in Wiener Neustadt in Blumengasse. After losing his job, he felt ridiculed, became depressed, and wanted to commit suicide. The medical officer arranged for him to be admitted to the “Am Steinhof” sanatorium and care institution on June 15, 1932. From there, the patient was transferred to the Ybbs an der Donau sanatorium on November 19, 1932.
When the regional old age and infirmity home in Neudörfl opened, Burgenland care recipients were largely transferred there. Thus, Robert Schweiger was also transferred to Neudörfl on June 1, 1933. He was discharged in the meantime (details unknown) but, according to the registration form, was readmitted on December 7, 1937.
There he fell into the gears of the T4 Action of the Nazi euthanasia program and was “transferred to the Mauer-Öhling sanatorium and care institution on June 25, 1940, at the urging of the Reich Governor in Lower Danube.”
After that, there are only a few more entries in his medical history, which end with the stamp “Transferred on July 10, 1941, to an institution not named to the management.” The stamp was the code name at the time for the transport to the Hartheim killing facility. Another 85 home residents were transported with him. The delivered victims were generally murdered the same day in the Hartheim gas chamber with carbon monoxide gas.
Anton Blaha