Memorial Plate "Reason for Dismissal: Non-Aryan" - Georg-Schmiedel-House

At the Georg-Schmiedel-Hof in the Hannovergasse 13-15, the district council of Brigittenau installed a memorial plaque for the social democratic municipal politician Philipp Rottenberg and other tenants who had been expelled from the municipal housing complex under the NS regime on the grounds of "non-Aryan" status. Philipp Rottenberg lived with his wife Fanni in an apartment at the Georg-Schmiedel-Hof. The couple was deported to Izbica in Poland on 5 June 1942, where their traces disappear. No one who was deported from Austria to Izbica survived. Most of them were murdered in the extermination camp Belzec. The district council named the number of 260 Jewish tenants who had been expelled from the Brigittenau from municipal buildings. 19 of them became victims of the Holocaust.