Gedenktafel Margarete Hilferding

The city of Vienna named a municipal housing complex built in 1928/1929 in Favoriten after the doctor and social democratic politician Margarethe Hilferding. The district council placed a plaque on the façade at Leebgasse 100, commemorating her. Margarethe Hilferding was persecuted by the NS regime as a Jew and was deported in June 1942 to the concentration camp Theresienstadt and three months later to the extermination camp Treblinka. There her traces disappear. Margarethe Hilferding is regarded as one of the most influential individual psychologists and individual psychology practitioners of the interwar period in Vienna. She dealt with women's issues, sexuality and birth control, enlightenment and education. She worked as a practical physician, gynecologist, and school physician in Favoriten since 1910. She was active as a social democratic district councilor from 1927 to 1934.