At a public conference in May 2005, a friend of the Polsterer family described the people who stole the Nestroyhof from Anna Stein as “resistance fighters”. The Regional Direction (Gauleitung) of the Nazi Party, however, was of a different opinion. The documents listed below show how the Nazi leadership perceived the character and collaboration of each of the five “Aryanizers” of the Nestroyhof before they took possession of it in their successful quest for Jewish property.

• Alfred Polsterer




• Ernst Polsterer




• Ludwig Polsterer




• Richard Polsterer




• Rudolf Polsterer

THE DYBBUK IN THE NESTROYHOF - A DOCUDRAMA OF OUR TIMES

Richard Polsterer


Personnel Office
Wasagasse 10,
Vienna IX,

To the
Gau Wien (District Office of the NSDAP in Vienna)
Am Hof 4, Vienna

Regarding: Political Assessment of


The abovementioned was previously involved out of economic interest with the enemy without having acted, however, against the NSDAP. Following the change of leadership, he supported the Party with financial contributions and has also joined the NSV (Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt / National Socialist Society of Social Welfare) and the DAF (Deutsche Arbeitsfront / German Labour Front).

Nothing politically unfavorable is known about him.