Klusener-Esch, Emilie

Joined the Nazi Women's Organization in 1932. After the Nazi takeover of Germany, Fritz Alberghs (q.v.), the leader of REGEDE, the Nazified organization of the deaf, authorized her to establish the Reich Women's Union within REGEDE. She was active in giving Nazi lectures and propaganda to deaf Germans, and was voluntarily sterilized; she tried to convince other deaf German women to be sterilized.