Dr. Erich (Erik) Streitmann
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Erich Streitmann [also sometimes spelled 'Erik'] was born in Vienna as the legitimate son of the police officer Friedrich Streitmann and his wife Stefanie, née Kremser. After elementary school, he attended the Gymnasium Wien VI [today: BRG Amerlingstraße], where he graduated in 1927. In the same year, he enrolled in law at the University of Vienna and was awarded a doctorate in law in December 1931.
After his year in court in 1932, Erich Streitmann began working at the Civil Service Insurance Institution, but transferred to the Vienna police force on January 17, 1934. After his internships at the Leopoldstadt, Prater and Brigittenau district police stations, he became head of the state police department at the Prater district police station. In this role, he took energetic and decisive action against illegal National Socialists.
Streitmann was a political advisor during the system era. He persecuted the National Socialists with fanatical and almost sadistic hatred, insulted the Führer and the NSDAP and arbitrarily wrote interrogation protocols or transcripts about Nazi prisoners. He abused N.S. women during interrogation by punching them in the face. St. was a typical representative of the system era who spared no means when it came to persecuting and harming Nat.Soz.
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On March 12, 1938, Erich Streitmann witnessed the end of a free and independent Austria with the invasion of the German Wehrmacht. He was arrested by the Gestapo on March 13, 1938 and deported together with his father on the so-called 'Prominent Transport' to the Dachau concentration camp on April 2, 1938. When Dachau concentration camp had to be cleared for the SS at short notice after Hitler's invasion of Poland, he was transferred to Flossenbürg concentration camp
In the re-established Republic of Austria, Erich Streitmann was reinstated to the police force in May 1945. However, the psychological abuse and hardships in the concentration camps must have taken their toll on him. He hanged himself in June 1946 in the family's summer hut on the Old Danube in Vienna's 22nd district. He finds his final resting place at the cemetery in Vienna-Döbling.
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Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchiv (WStLA)
Österreichisches Staatsarchiv (ÖStA)
Arolsen Archives
Friedhöfe Wien - Verstorbenensuche
