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Gustav Sievers<br />
*Almstedt 1865–1941, Murdered in the Hadamar Clinic<br />
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The weaver Gustav Sievers was arrested in 1900 for “indecent conduct” with two<br />
girls and admitted to the Lengerich Asylum for observation. His police records<br />
indicate prison terms for begging and insulting the police, as well as the<br />
“distribution of social democrat writings”.<br />
He was in America for seven years, performed hard physical labour and educated<br />
himself autodidactically in libraries in his free time. Kant, Darwin, Voltaire and<br />
Alexander von Humboldt were all part of his literature. After a failed marriage, he<br />
attempted suicide and, as a result, ventured back out into the world.<br />
Sievers often avowed himself a member of the working class and the social democrat<br />
party. He promoted Vorwärts (a social democrat newspaper), announced a social<br />
democrat speech and wrote to August Bebel (founded of the organised worker’s<br />
movement in Germany).<br />
Sievers believed that the Centre Party was guilty for his admittance to the clinic.<br />
Behind them were the freemasons, who followed him and tried to destroy him.<br />
The reason he was being followed was jealousy over his invention of the “fall<br />
restrain webbed chair”, which will introduce the “3,000 year epoch of the flying<br />
webbed ship".<br />
While in the clinic, Sievers’ “thought operations” also revolved around his invention,<br />
which is entered in the Reich patent register as number 108661.<br />
The unrelenting man continued to rebel. He continued to attempt to escape the<br />
clinic, proved himself to be violent, smashed window panes, threatened the<br />
guards, attacked the doctors and planned the assassination of the director of the<br />
clinic.<br />
This caused the following decree: “He is to remain in the isolation cell for three<br />
years and will be brought to the extended bath each day.”<br />
He was able to escape in 1903 and was then admitted to the Lüneberg<br />
sanatorium. He was transferred to the Göttingen Clinic in 1909 and transferred<br />
back to Lüneberg in 1934.<br />
As a “final condition”, he was brought to Herborn in 1939 and cleared for<br />
euthanasia there. The Nazis murdered Sievers in 1941 in the Hadamar killing facility.<br />
Works from 1903 to 1919 are included in the Prinzhorn Collection: these are primarily<br />
comic strips, first drawn in pencil and later colourfully painted in with body<br />
colours. These were often parables, marked by their caricaturing, humorous<br />
character.<br />
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