Life_under_Siege_The_Jews_of_Magdeburg_under_Nazi_Rule.pdf

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same grounds. 115 On 16 October 1935, all financial institutions and the city’s fire
brigades were instructed to suspend Jewish employees. 116
Suspended Jewish civil servants were forcibly retired on 31 December 1935
when a further amendment of the Reichsbürgergesetz was enacted on 9 December
1935. 117 Jewish civil servants who were war veterans or Jewish civil servants
whose brothers and/or fathers had fallen in battle lost their exemptions and were
subjected to the same measures. 118 Pension records for those forcibly retired in
Magdeburg indicate that eight Jewish members of the teaching profession in
public schools had been relieved of their duties and retired by 14 October 1936.
These included two male principals, one female principal and five male
teachers. 119 As a general rule non-Jewish civil servants who were married to
Jewesses were forcibly retired on 8 April 1937. 120
The pursuit of ‘racial purity’ in the civil service in Magdeburg was a major
priority. An interesting indication of this was provided in the case of a high level
governmental male bureaucrat by the surname of Trier. Trier was the head of the
provincial government’s planning department and building control office of the
Elbstrombauverwaltung in Magdeburg. 121 It cannot be confirmed whether or not
he was a member of the Jewish community as his name does not appear in any
documentation linking him to anything Jewish in Magdeburg. Repeatedly, this
115 Betrifft: Durchführung der arischen Abstammung, 4. November 1935, Collection
JM, File 10624, YVA, op. cit., p. 40.
116 Betrifft: Beurlaubung jüd. Beamter, 16. Oktober 1935, Bestand Rep. I 93, Signatur
Nr. 33, LHASA MD, op. cit., p. 84.
117 Übertritt der jüdischen Beamten in den Ruhestand, 9. Dezember 1935, ibid., p. 57.
118 Ibid., pp. 58–60.
119 Versorgungsbezüge für jüdische ehemalige Beamte und Lehrer auf Grund des § 16
BerufsBG, 14. Oktober 1936, Bestand Rep. C 28 II, Signatur Nr. 72, Band 2, LHASA
MD, pp. 67–69.
120 Correspondence from the Reich and Prussian Minister for the Interior, 8 November
1937, Collection JM, File 10624, YVA, op. cit., pp. 139–142.
121 Übertritt der jüdischen Beamten in den Ruhestand, 25. Januar 1936, ibid., p. 36.