Adolf Wenger

Adolf Wenger ( March 4, 1893 in Braunau am Inn - April 7, 1944 in Mauthausen concentration camp ) was an Austrian platoon leader.

Life

Stumbling block for Adolf Wenger

Adolf Wenger performed his duties as a train driver with the station Braunau. On October 15, 1942, he and Josef Seeburger and Josef Angüsser were sentenced by the Vienna Higher Regional Court to long prison sentences for preparing for high treason. The three men were accused of trying to set up a KPÖ group in Braunau and collecting membership fees for it. Wenger and Seeburger denied having ties to the communist party. Adolf Wenger was sent to the Mauthausen concentration camp, where he died on April 7, 1944 in an unexplained manner. On April 11, 1944, his widow Anna Wenger received the following notification:

"When your spouse Adolf Wenger called in sick, he was admitted to the hospital for medical treatment. He was given the best possible drug and nursing treatment. Despite all the medical efforts used, it was not possible to get the disease under control. The spouse died without having made any final wishes. I extend my condolences to you on this loss. On behalf of Schulz, SS-Untersturmführer. "

In Braunau a street was named after Adolf Wenger, and a stumbling block was laid for him in Braunau am Inn.

Individual evidence

↑ Brigitte Bailer-Galanda , Gerhard Botz (ed.): Resistance and persecution in Upper Austria 1934–1945. A documentation. Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance, Volume 1, Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance, Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-215-04529-X , pp. 277f.
Florian Schwanninger : In the home district of the Führer. National Socialism, Resistance and Persecution in the Braunau District 1938 to 1945. Steinmassl, Grünbach 2007, ISBN 3-902427-18-3 , p. 120.

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Braunau History

personal data
SURNAME	Wenger, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian platoon leader and victim of the Nazi regime
DATE OF BIRTH	March 4, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH	Braunau am Inn
DATE OF DEATH	April 7, 1944
Place of death	Mauthausen concentration camp

[1] Brigitte Bailer-Galanda , Gerhard Botz (ed.): Resistance and persecution in Upper Austria 1934–1945. A documentation. Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance, Volume 1, Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance, Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-215-04529-X , pp. 277f.
Florian Schwanninger : In the home district of the Führer. National Socialism, Resistance and Persecution in the Braunau District 1938 to 1945. Steinmassl, Grünbach 2007, ISBN 3-902427-18-3 , p. 120.