Dr. Anna Mathä
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Anna Mathä was born in 1906 as the daughter of the Contist (bank employee) Florian Mathä in Vienna. After the Volks- und Bürgerschule, she visits the private-teacherinnen-Bildungsanstalt St. Ursula, maturates there in 1925 and insulates the scientific subjects, geography and psychology at the philosophical faculty of the University of Vienna in 1927. She joins the Association of Catholic-German High Schools in Vienna.
In 1931 she completed her apprenticeship examination and entered the apprenticeship service in 1932, after her trial year. After teaching at various schools, she becomes Director of the St. Ursula Women's School in 1937. Viennese district. In addition, she is engaged in Fatherland front.
On 16. September 1938, she is released from school because of her political attitude. “With September 1938, I was no longer used for my cooperation in the preservation of Austria’s self-employment and my open entry against National Socialism in the school service and now began to earn my living as a chord writer in Schreibstubes and as a stenotypist”Anna Mathä said in June 1945.
Anna Mathä was born on 15. September 1940 re-entered the school service, but often postponed, and in 1944/45 a disciplinary investigation was initiated against it, but finally not carried out. However, it is not pragmatized.
From 1942 to the liberation of Vienna, Anna Mathä and her mother hide the following Jews in their apartment to protect them from safe deportation:
- Berta Braunerborn on 30. June 1886
- Karoline Lustigborn on 12 August 1887. Karoline Lustig's mother and brother, Marie and Alfred Löwy were deported on July 12, 1942. Alfred Löwy became KZ Auschwitz and Marie Löwy KZ Theresienstadt and later spent in the KZ Treblinka. Both did not survive the Holocaust.
- Paul Sondhoffborn on 16. April 1923, was a former student of Anna Mathä. She took him when his mother Helene and his sister Agnes Alma had been deported. Helene Sondhoff, born on 6. December 1893 and Agnes Alma, born on 2. January 1930 became 27th May 1942 deported to Maly Trostinec and on 1st June 1942 killed there.
After the war, Anna Mathä obtained her doctorate in 1946 and becomes a teacher in the BRG Hegelgasse 14, in the 1st district. She is quickly pragmatized and compensated for the two years in which she was excluded from school. “They have not been used for political reasons from 16.9.1938 to 15.9.1940. ‘, the confirmation of the Federal Ministry of Education. She is engaged in the ÖVP-Cameraditure of Politically Persecuted and Bekenner for Austria.
At the end of 1971 she was retired in a single and childless manner and died in Vienna in 1991.
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Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstands (DÖW)
Universitätsarchiv der Universität Wien
Wiener Stadt und Landesarchiv (WStLA)
