State Administration of Reich Gau Vienna Statistical Offiee for Reich Gau Ostmark
Zl. 3305/1 39 Vienna, 15 December 1939
1. Heldenplatz, Neue Burg
Tel. R 27-5-65
To the Reich Commissar for the Reunion of the Austrian Nation with the German Reich
through channels via the Governor [Regierungspraesident] of Vienna
The Statistical Office for Reich Gau Ostmark has the honor to submit herewith, in the enclosure, an initial compilation of early results of this year's census relative to the number and reduction in number of Jews and part Jews in Reich Gau Ostmark, especially in the Vienna districts, together with a brief commentary.
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1 file of the Statistical Office for the Reich Districts (Gaue) of the Ostmark, together with a summary of 15 December 1939. Zl. 3305/1 39
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Jews and Part Jews
in the Reich Districts [Gaue of the Ostmark
In the census of 17 May 1939, the question was put for the first time whether one of an individual's grandparents was full Jew by race. The declarations were to be made by the people on the "Supplementary Card for Data on Descent and Education" in full and to the best of their ability; this supplementary card was to be given to the honorary census taker in a sealed, opaque envelope, which was opened only when the statistical count was made. No check has yet been made as to the correctness of the information submitted. In the compiling of the statistics, everyone who reported that three or four of his grandparents were full Jews was counted as a full Jew himself, everyone with two Jewish grandparents as a part Jew, Grade I, and correspondingly everyone with only one Jewish grandparent as a part Jew, Grade II. The resulting slight deviation from the pertinent legal definitions of full Jew and part Jew was occasioned by formulation of the question in the simplest possible way.
According to the initial results of this year's census, there were 91,480 full Jews and 22,344 part Jews of Grades I and II in Vienna as of 17 May 1939. In the remaining Reich Districts of the Ostmark there were 3,073 full Jews and 4,241 part Jews. According to this, there were altogether 121,138 Jews in the Ostmark, of whom 113,824, i. e. 94%, lived in Vienna, 3% in Niederdonau, 1 % in the Steiermark, and less than 1 % in each of the remaining Gaus.
While 80% of all the Jews in Vienna were full Jews and only 14% were part Jews, Grade I, and 6% part Jews, Grade II, in the other Reich Gaus the part Jews predominated, totaling 58%, as against 42% who were full Jews. Only in Niederdonau were the full Jews, with a total of almost 2,000, approximately as numerous as the part Jews.
These varying proportions of full Jews and part Jews are explained primarily by the emigration of Jews following the political change over. This emigration had reduced the number of full Jews in the Reich Gaus of the Ostmark, excluding Vienna and Niederdonau, to a small remainder of 1,103 by the time of the census.
The extent of the emigration of full Jews can be estimated approximately by comparison with the number of persons of Jewish faith reported in the census of 1934. It must be remembered, however, that in 1934 the number of those of Jewish faith did not include all full Jews and that, on the other hand, a small number of those of Jewish faith were part Jews, Grades I and II.
. With this reservation, it can be stated that the number of Jews in the Ostmark (not including the annexed Sudeten-German
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regions) has diminished from 191,528 Jews by faith to 94,884 full Jews. At the same time the number of Jews in the Reich Districts (Gaus), excluding Vienna, decreased by 13,000 i.e. approximately 82% to 3,000. In Vienna alone, the decrease amounted to 84,000 persons, i. e. 48%.
The ratio of the sexes among full Jews has become so greatly dislocated that there are 100 male full Jews to every 136 female full Jews in Vienna, which can probably be ascribed to the earlier emigration of the Jewish males. The ratio among the part Jews, comparatively few of whom are thought to have emigrated, is 100:112, more nearly the average surplus of women in the population of Vienna.
According to data furnished by the Central Office for Jewish emigration, Vienna IV., about 100,000 Jews emigrated from the Ostmark in the period between the change over [Umbruch] and the census. This number is very close to the figure of 97,000 given above as the reduction in Jews since the census of 1934. Some 26,000 persons of Jewish faith emigrated from the Ostmark in the months succeeding the census.
While the problem of full Jews is almost completely solved, therefore, in the Reich Districts of the Ostmark, with the exception of Vienna, from a numerical standpoint the problem of part Jews still plays a relatively large role. For example, almost half of the approximately 1,000 Jews in Oberdonau are part Jews, Grade I, and more than one quarter are part Jews, Grade II. Similar conditions prevail in the remaining Reich Gaus, particularly in Salzburg, in Carinthia, and in the Tyrol.
Nevertheless the problem of part Jews in the Ostmark is first and foremost a problem for the Reich District of Vienna, where there are 86% of the part Jews Grade I and 80% of the part Jews Grade II. Gau Niderdonau takes second place, with a large interval, but has only 6% of the part Jews Grade I and 8% of the part Jews Grade II.
Out of all the part Jews in the Ostmark, 68% had two Jewish grandparents and 32% had one Jewish grandparent. It is worth noting that 70% of all Jews in Vienna were half-Jews, whereas less than 60% were half-Jews in the remaining Gaus of the Ostmark.
At the present time the problem of part Jews in Vienna is still numerically overshadowed by the large number of full Jews, of whom there are estimated in round figures to be 70,000, since approximately 4,000 persons of Jewish faith have emigrated from the Ostmark every month since the census—with the exception of September. r_. , ,
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JEWS AND PART JEWS IN THE DISTRICT OF VIENNA Preliminary Results of 1939 Census * JEWS
DISTRICTS GRAND TOTAL FULL JEWS PART JEWS, GRADE I PART JEWS, GRADE II
total male female total male female total male female total male female
I. Innere Stadt 6,825 3,001 3,824 5,947 2,596 3,351 650 293 357 228 112 116
II. Leopoldstadt 33,889 14,483 19,406 31,564 13,370 18,194 1,862 885 977 463 228 235
III. Landstrasse 7,623 3,290 4,333 5,890 2,530 3,360 1,180 520 660 553 240 313
IV. Wieden 3,166 1,365 1,801 2,121 901 1,220 698 31 388 348 154 193
V. Margareten 2,712 1,229 1,483 1,769 788 981 632 293 339 311 148 163
VI. Mariahilf 4,634 2,016 2,618 3,826 1,653 2,173 608 263 345 200 100 100
VII. Neubau 5,187 2,263 2,924 4,181 1,786 2,395 740 356 384 266 121 145
VIII. Josefstadt 3,699 1,668 2,031 2,958 1,314 1,644 534 256 278 207 98 109
IX. Alsergrund 12,784 5,179 7,525 11,281 4,527 6,754 1,076 498 578 347 154 193
X. Favoriten 2,307 1,057 1,250 1,393 609 784 609 292 317 305 156 149
XL Aimmering 447 218 229 265 134 131 127 57 70 55 27 28
XII. Meidling 1,986 900 1,086 1,045 444 601 610 298 312 331 158 173
XIII. Hietzing 2,008 851 1,157 1,310 524 786 457 210 247 241 117 124
XIV. Penzing 1,729 759 970 933 403 530 506 230 278 290 126 164
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DISTRICTS GRAND TOTAL FULL JEWS PART JEWS, GRADE I PART JEWS, GRADE II
total male female total male female total male female total male female
XV. Fanihaus 3,667 1,572 2,095 2,573 1,051 1,522 758 368 390 336 153 383
XVI. Ottakring 3,123 1,440 1,683 1,874 831 1,043 833 410 423 416 199 217
XVII. Hernals 1,690 760 930 934 394 540 508 249 259 248 117 131
XVIII. Wahlring 3,246 1,411 1,835 2,155 922 1,233 744 329 415 347 160 187
XIX. Döbling 2,961 1,325 1,636 2,030 845 1,185 633 315 318 298 165 133
XX. Brigittenau 7,082 3,020 4,063 6,025 2,519 3,506 754 339 415 304 162 142
g XXI. Floridsdorf 1,391 671 720 524 224 300 540 279 261 327 168 159
XXII. Grossenzerdorf 171 82 89 45 21 24 69 35 34 57 26 31
XXIII. Schwechat 36.4 215 149 286 175 112 44 23 21 34 18 16
XXIV. Mödling 365 176 189 113 56 57 146 67 79 106 53 53
XXV. Liesing 507 205 302 240 89 151 185 80 105 82 36 46
XXVI. Klostemauburg 340 161 179 198 93 105 88 41 47 54 27 27
Total 113,824 49,317 64,507 91,480 38,798 52,682 15,591 7,296 8,295 6,753 3,223 3,530
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Decrease of Jews in the Reich Districts [Gaue] of the Ostmark* (Based on preliminary results of 1939 census)
Reich Gau Jews by religion as of 22 Mar 1934 Full Jews by race, as of 17 May 1939 Numbers less in 1939 than in 1934 Jews by religion 1934 Local distribution
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Abso- lute In per- cent
Full Jews Part Jews
Grade I Grade II
Vienna 175,099 91,480 83,619 47.8 91.4 96.9 86.8 80.3
Niederonau 11,439 1,836 9,603 83.9 6.0 2.0 5.6 7.1
Oberdonau 1,257 216 1,041 82.8 0.7 0.2 2.4 3.4
Steiermark 2,818 563 2,255 80.0 1.5 0.6 2.9 5.2
Kärnten 273 60 213 78.0 0.1 0.1 0.7 1.5
Salzburg 239 67 172 72.0 0.1 0.1 0.7 1.0
Tirol 361 119 242 67.0 0.2 0.1 0.8 1.1
Vorarlbg. 42 43 1 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.4
OSTMARK 191,528 94,384 97,144 50.7 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
* Regional status as of Oct. 15, 1938, without the annexed Sudeten-German districts.
Jews and Part Jews in the Reich Districts (Gaus) of the Ostmark (Preliminary results of the census of 17 May 1939)
Reich Gau Jews and part Jews together These include In percentages
Full Jews Part Jews Full Jews Part Jews
Grade I Grade II Grade I Grade II
Niederonau 3,737 1,970 1,117 650 52.7 29.9 17.4
Oberdonau 1,015 251 468 296 24.7 46.1 29.2
Steiermark 1,512 563 508 441 3V.2 33.6 29.2
Kärnten 313 60 129 124 19.2 41.2 39.6
Salzburg 273 67 123 83 24.5 45.1 30.4
Tirol 360 119 147 94 33.1 46.8 26.1
Vorarlberg 104 43 23 38 41.4 22.1 36.5
Total 7,314 3,073 2,515 1,726 42.0 34.4 23.6
Vienna 113,824 91,480 15,591 6,753 80.4 13.7 5.9
Ostmark . 121,138 94,553 18,106 8,479 78.1 14.9 7.0
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Report on the number of Jews in Vienna and Austria (Ostmark) in May 1939 and their decline since 1934
Date: 15 December 1939
Literal Title: Jews and Part Jews in the Reich Districts (Gaue) of the Ostmark
Defendant: Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Total Pages: 4
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-1949
HLSL Item No.: 453224
Notes:The report states a decline from 191000 Jews to 94000. A person with 3 or 4 Jewish grandparents was considered a "full Jew"; one with 1 or 2 Jewish grandparents was a "part Jew." This document was apparently not entered in the case against Seyss-Inquart.
Document Summary
PS-1949: Report from the Bureau of Statistics for the provinces of the Ostmark on the Jewish population in Vienna and the Ostmark