On 7 December 1941, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler issued the following instructions to the Gestapo: “After lengthy consideration, it is the will of the Führer that the measures taken against those who are guilty of offenses against the Reich or against the occupation forces in occupied areas should be altered.
In order to search for a person the complete name and an additional distinguishing mark is needed (date of birth, address at a given time).
The pursuit of family history demands a step by step approach, beginning with family tradition and documents and passing on to main and then to supplementary record sources.
They came from the Habsburg empire, a multi-national, multi-ethnic conglomerate. Variations of the surname can be found in different cultures, such as "Wein" in German-speaking regions, which means "wine," and may also refer to individuals involved in viticulture or wine trade. It was a directive of Adolf Hitler on 7 December 1941 that was originally intended to remove all political and resistance "activists" or “anyone endangering German security" throughout Nazi Germany's occupied territories.
For scientific projects that need to go through large amounts of records it is possible to use digitiesed records.
Thousands of political prisoners from Germany and from 1941 the occupied territories, under the 'Night and Fog' Decree, simply disappeared while in Gestapo custody.
He fled in 1938 the persecution of the Jews after the Anschluss - the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in March 1938.
An oddity of the system was that the prisoner had to sign his own Schutzhaftbefehl (protective custody warrant) an order declaring that the person had requested imprisonment out of fear of personal harm.
Ernst Steiner was confined by the Geheime Staatspolizei - Gestapo (German Secret Police) to the police prison Düsseldorf on 15 April 1940, transferred to the penal and pre-trial prison Düsseldorf-Derendorf on 26 June 1940 (prisoners’ book number 1298/40); to the court prison Hamm on 5 August 1940; to prison Hagen on 16 September 1940 (prisoners’ book number 738); to Berlin-Moabit on 13 April 1942; he was incarcerated as transport prisoner – from Lehrte to Düsseldorf - in the police prison Hamm from 5 to 6 June 1942.
The Jewish Community of Vienna (IKG) was temporarily closed by the Nazis, and after its reopening in May 1938, Jews living in Austria had to register with the IKG's emigration department in order to leave the country and escape persecution by the Nazis. They were usually arrested in the middle of the night and quickly taken to prisons hundreds of miles away for questioning, eventually arriving at concentration camps.
In the Netherlands, he established contact with the British secret service.[3]
Ernst Steiner was arrested in the Netherlands by the Gestapo and transported to Germany in 1940, sentenced to two years imprisonment (in Hagen, Westphalia).[4]
The power of the Gestapo most open to misuse was called Schutzhaft (protective custody) a euphemism for the power to imprison people without judicial proceedings.
The records of the former crownlands and parts of the Austrian Empire are now in the archives of the modern states.
A lot of information on people in Vienna is already available online.
To avoid misunderstandings, it is necessary to use the European style of day, month and year. The municipal department 35 Immigration and Citizenship is responsible for citizenship issues.
The Municipal and Provincial Archives of Vienna only keep records of Viennese inhabitants and not of inhabitants of the other Austrian provinces!
Most of the early prisoners were either prisoners of personal conviction (belief), political prisoners whom the Nazis deemed in need of "re-education" to Nazi ideals, or resistance leaders in occupied Western Europe. 4 Sep 1889, Fünfhaus, Wien, Wien, Österreich , gest.
In some cases, the name may appear with different spellings or pronunciations, reflecting local dialects or linguistic adaptations.