Memorial Plaque for Dr. Albert Theodor Menninger-Lerchenthal

The doctor Dr. Albert Theodor Menninger-Lerchenthal had a practice in the center of Hermagor. He was a participant in the First World War and afterwards campaigned for a memorial in memory of the fallen in Hermagor. The Nazis classified him as a „half-Jew“ and imposed a professional ban on him in 1943. He had to give up his medical practice and received a service obligation in Magdeburg. On 31 July 1944, Dr. Albert Theodor Menninger-Lerchenthal died under unclear circumstances on the Radniger Alm. In addition to the memorial of the „dying soldier“ that he initiated at the so-called Hermagor „Heroes' Cemetery“ (above the cemetery in a small park on the main street), a commemorative plaque was installed in his honor in 2013. However, this plaque contains no reference to his persecution during National Socialism. A memorial for a person, therefore, that does not recall their tragic fate.