Käthi Stilgenbauer - Steger
Käthi Steger was the domestic help of the Frank family in Frankfurt am Main.
Käthi Steger was the Frank family's domestic help in Frankfurt am Main. There are photos of her together with Anne and Margot.[1]
Käthi married Georg Stilgenbauer (*1888) on 29 November 1924 in Kelkheim. In 1937, her husband was sentenced to three years' imprisonment and five years' dishonour for Vorbereitung eines hochverräterischen Unternehmens.[2] He was imprisoned from 11 May 1937 to 9 December 1939.[3]
Otto Frank tried to re-establish contact with Käthi after the war. On 2 February 1952, he placed an appeal 'Wer kennt Anschrift Käthi Stilgenbauer?' in Frankfurter magazine Die Glocke, which appeal was successful.[4] She contacted Otto Frank, who wrote back: “Weder meine Frau noch meine Kinder sind am Leben, alle sind den Nazis zum Opfer gefallen. Ich bin allein übrig.”[5]
Thanks to the renewed contact, Ernst Schnabel was able to interview her a few years later for his book Anne Frank. Spur eines Kindes (1958; The footsteps of Anne Frank, 1959). He wrote in it that Käthi stayed with the family until her marriage in 1929.[5] This contradicts the date of marriage indicated above by Volker Harms-Ziegler of the Frankfurt City Archives.
Source personal data.[6] Addresses: Antoniterstraße 15, Frankfurt am Main; 30 (5 Sepetember 1933).Volker Harms-Ziegler (12 April 2018).
Footnotes
- ^ Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Anne Frank Collectie (AFC), reg code A_MFrank_III_046.037, A_AFrank_III_027.005.
- ^ Institut für Stadtgeschichte (ISG), Frankfurt am Main, Archiv NS-Verfolgte, inv. nr. 6665: Uittreksel uit strafregister
- ^ ISG, Archiv NS-Verfolgte, inv. nr. 6665: Afschrift vrijlatingsbewijs uit Börgermoor, 9 december 1939.
- ^ Annonce. Die Glocke, 2 februari 1952.
- a, b Ernst Schnabel, Anne Frank. Spur eines Kindes, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Bücherei, 1958, p. 15.
- ^ E-mail Volker Harms-Ziegler (Institut für Statdtgeschichte (ISG), Ffm) aan Céline Wendelgaß (Bildungstätte Anne Frank, Ffm), 12 april 2018.