ISIDOR SEELIG (1906 – 1940)

Isidor Seelig was born in Rogasen (now Poland), had travelled by sea and traded in furs until he fell ill at the age of 22. After the First World War, he moved to Germany. He lived in Soltau and the surrounding area for a long time, but probably also spent some time in Hanover and Berlin. When he fell ill in 1928, he was admitted to the Lüneburg institution and nursing home. He remained there until he was transferred to the collection centre in Wunstorf on 21 September 1940. Although Isidor Seelig was a chronically ill patient in the institution and nursing home, which ruled out sterilisation against his will according to the law, he was admitted to Lüneburg Municipal Hospital on 18 April 1939 and rendered infertile. His doctor Gustav Marx had arranged for this to be reported. His judges were doctors Sander and Vosgerau and district judge Stölting. One and a half years later, Isidor Seelig was murdered with carbon monoxide in Brandenburg on 27 September 1940. The entry in the »Register of Sick Men at the Provincial institution and Nursing Home« reveals that the Lüneburg institution staff were aware that he had only been brought to Wunstorf »for further transfer«. A registry office »Cholm«, which had been set up to register the »T4« victims in the Columbushaus in Berlin, issued a death certificate for Isidor Seelig. Both the date of death and the cause of death were falsified.