Dr. Walter Pintus

Dr. Walter Pintus (born on 27 September 1880 in Berlin) lived and worked at Mathildenstraße 6 in Ludwigsburg from 1905 to 1938. He was a respected citizen of the town for decades and a popular general practitioner and obstetrician. In 1906, he married Helene, née Jacobi, three years his junior and the daughter of a Stuttgart liqueur manufacturer. In 1907 their daughter Lotte was born, who converted to the Protestant church in 1931 on the occasion of her marriage to the lawyer Dr. Hugo Weisslig. Dr. Pintus was a sought-after family doctor with a very extensive practice, the growth of which at times even required the appointment of an assistant doctor. As of January 1, 1938, in the course of increasing repression against Jewish citizens, his medical practice was significantly restricted and on October 1, 1938, he was removed from the medical register and his license to practice medicine was revoked. There had already been calls for a boycott of the practice since 1933, and public denigration and harassment of patients, for example in the local Nazi newspaper in 1936.

After the Reich Pogrom Night on November 9-10, 1938, the practice was forcibly dissolved and Dr. Pintus was arrested along with numerous other Jewish citizens from Ludwigsburg. He and others were taken to Dachau concentration camp. There is no certainty about the cause of his death on November 13, 1938, but it is possible that he committed suicide with the poison he had probably been carrying for some time.

His wife Helene Pintus, daughter Lotte and her husband and their daughter Margrit Brigitte, born in Stuttgart in 1936, managed to emigrate to Argentina in 1941. Helene Pintus died in Buenos Aires in 1979 at the age of 96. Her daughter Lotte last lived in Zürich and died there, nine years after her husband, in 1998 at the age of 90.