Adele Stürzl

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Adele Stürzl after her arrest around 1942

Adele Stürzl (born November 23, 1892 in Vienna , † June 30 or August 16, 1944 in Munich ) was an Austrian resistance fighter against National Socialism and was therefore executed.

life and career

At the age of 10 she lost her mother and was brought to South Moravia as a “child's brain”. She also worked as a maid in a parsonage, then returned to Vienna and also worked in Budapest , where she met and married the tailor Hans Stürzl.

Towards the end of the First World War , the couple moved to Kufstein ( Tyrol ). Adele Stürzl joined the Social Democratic Party and founded a. a. the welfare association "Helpfulness". Her main concerns were the commitment to equal rights for women and the fight against poverty.

In 1932 Stürzl broke with social democracy and joined the Communist Party of Austria ( KPÖ ), which was banned in 1933. As an active communist, Stürzl repeatedly came into conflict with the authorities in the Austro-fascist “ corporate state ”. Even after the so-called " Anschluss " to Nazi Germany in 1938 , Stürzl remained politically active in the resistance against National Socialism . When she tried to help a deserter escape, she was arrested by the Gestapo in June 1942 . She was locked in the Innsbruck State Prison House, where she shared a cell with the resistance fighter Carmella Flöck . In March 1944 she was transferred to Munich and sentenced to death on April 13 . On 30 June 1944 (according to other sources on 16 August) it was in Munich Stadelheim by the guillotine executed .

In Kufstein, the Adele Stürzl-Weg is named after her.

literature

  • Martin Achrainer: Adele Stürzl (1892-1944). The Rosa Luxemburg von Kufstein , In: Horst Schreiber, Ingrid Tschugg, Alexandra Weiss (ed.): Women in Tirol. Pioneers in politics, business, literature, music, art and science. Tyrolean Studies on History and Politics Volume 2, Innsbruck-Vienna-Munich-Bozen 2003, pp. 38–45.
  • Thomas Messner: Adele Stürzl. Biography of a Tyrolean resistance fighter against National Socialism , diploma thesis, Innsbruck 1995.
  • Horst Schreiber : National Socialism and Fascism in Tyrol and South Tyrol. Victim. Perpetrator. Opponent , Innsbruck 2008.
  • Rosmarie Thüminger : With open eyes . Adele Stürzl; an approximation. Innsbruck, TAK 2009. ISBN 978-3-900888-46-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carmella Flöck: ... and dreamed that I was free. A Tyrolean woman in the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp. Memories of Resistance and Imprisonment 1938-1945. Edited by Friedrich Stepanek, Innsbruck 2012, pp. 38–53 u. Pp. 61-65, ISBN 978-3-7022-3217-7 .
personal data
SURNAME Stürzl, Adele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1944 or August 16, 1944
Place of death Munich-Stadelheim