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Gustav Sievers
*Almstedt 1865–1941, Murdered in the Hadamar Clinic
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The weaver Gustav Sievers was arrested in 1900 for “indecent conduct” with two
girls and admitted to the Lengerich Asylum for observation. His police records
indicate prison terms for begging and insulting the police, as well as the
“distribution of social democrat writings”.
He was in America for seven years, performed hard physical labour and educated
himself autodidactically in libraries in his free time. Kant, Darwin, Voltaire and
Alexander von Humboldt were all part of his literature. After a failed marriage, he
attempted suicide and, as a result, ventured back out into the world.
Sievers often avowed himself a member of the working class and the social democrat
party. He promoted Vorwärts (a social democrat newspaper), announced a social
democrat speech and wrote to August Bebel (founded of the organised worker’s
movement in Germany).
Sievers believed that the Centre Party was guilty for his admittance to the clinic.
Behind them were the freemasons, who followed him and tried to destroy him.
The reason he was being followed was jealousy over his invention of the “fall
restrain webbed chair”, which will introduce the “3,000 year epoch of the flying
webbed ship".
While in the clinic, Sievers’ “thought operations” also revolved around his invention,
which is entered in the Reich patent register as number 108661.
The unrelenting man continued to rebel. He continued to attempt to escape the
clinic, proved himself to be violent, smashed window panes, threatened the
guards, attacked the doctors and planned the assassination of the director of the
clinic.
This caused the following decree: “He is to remain in the isolation cell for three
years and will be brought to the extended bath each day.”
He was able to escape in 1903 and was then admitted to the Lüneberg
sanatorium. He was transferred to the Göttingen Clinic in 1909 and transferred
back to Lüneberg in 1934.
As a “final condition”, he was brought to Herborn in 1939 and cleared for
euthanasia there. The Nazis murdered Sievers in 1941 in the Hadamar killing facility.
Works from 1903 to 1919 are included in the Prinzhorn Collection: these are primarily
comic strips, first drawn in pencil and later colourfully painted in with body
colours. These were often parables, marked by their caricaturing, humorous
character.
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