Hildegard Albine Rosa Gronner (geb. Dolocy)

Photo by Hildegard Gronner
Hildegard Gronner
Image: WStLA

Personalia

Born:

May 22, 1895, Vienna

Died:

October 8, 1979, Vienna

Profession:

Housewife

Persecution:

Imprisonment 15.03.1938 - 19.03.1938

Memberships

Austrian People's Party, ÖVP Comradeship of the politically persecuted and confessors for Austria

Curriculum Vitae

Hildegard Albine Rosa Dolocy was born in Vienna as the legitimate daughter of primary school teacher Eduard Dolocy and his wife Maria Apollonia, née Heitzmann. After leaving school, she left the Catholic Church in 1913 and married the Jewish tax official Friedrich Gronner in 1914. In 1919, she joined the Protestant Church A.B. and later became the mother of a daughter. In 1932, she converted to the Catholic Church and had her marriage validated (recognized as Catholic) in the same year. In 1934, she was briefly arrested by the police for agitating for the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP)

Sebastian Fetzer denounces Hildegard Gronner on March 15, 1938

On March 12, 1938, Hildegard Gronner witnessed the demise of a free and independent Austria with the invasion of the German Wehrmacht. She was denounced for her statements immediately before the occupation and arrested on the day of the denunciation on March 15, 1938. She remained in custody until March 19, 1938. Due to the changed situation, she attempted suicide on June 29, 1938, but was barely saved.

On March 10, 1944, her divorced husband was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp and was imprisoned in the Theresienstadt concentration camp after October 28, 1944. October 1944 in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

In Vienna, Hildegard Gronner witnessed the liberation of Austria and the re-establishment of the Republic in April and May 1945. She joins the newly founded Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and the ÖVP-Kameradschaft der politisch Verfolgten und Bekenner für Österreich.

Hildegard Gronner died at the age of 84 and was laid to rest at the cemetery in Vienna-Baumgarten.

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Citations

Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchiv (WStLA)

Matricula Online

Friedhöfe Wien - Verstorbenensuche

Hildegard Gronner

Housewife
* May 22, 1895
Vienna
† October 8, 1979
Vienna
Detention