Alfred Goldhammer
Alfred Goldhammer (born on January 27 or July 27, 1907 in Vienna ; died on November 10, 1942 there ) was an Austrian leather worker and resistance fighter against National Socialism .
Life and execution
Goldhammer was a master tanner and held various functions in the union until 1934. From May 1938 he belonged to a communist cell in the United Leather Factory Gerlach, Moritz & Co in Vienna-Floridsdorf , which he took over in April 1940. On January 10, 1941, he was arrested by the Vienna Gestapo , recorded and interrogated; on August 27, 1942, he was sentenced to death by the People's Court for “preparing for high treason ” .
“They [the defendants] all came together at a time when the Reich is fighting for its existence, its future and for the reorganization of Europe and the best of its sons are giving their lives for it, out of blind hatred of nat. Soz.Rich, to whom almost all of them owe their secure advancement after years of unemployment, worked for a destructive idea that, in pursuit of their world revolutionary endeavors, purposefully aimed at the German people as the bearer and pillar of Western culture and with them Europe to enslave and destroy. The harshness of the times, to which any sparing of enemies of the state must be alien, requires them to be eradicated, whereby the difference in the scope and type of activity does not matter and there can be no decisive factor in how individuals of them feel. used to be part of the German people. "
He was beheaded on November 10, 1942 in the Vienna Regional Court . Together with him, the following resistance fighters were also executed by guillotine on the same day at the same place : the unskilled worker Paul Antl, the bricklayer's assistant Ferdinand Böhm, the electrical engineer Max Büchler, the clerk Leopold Fischer, the cook Johann Hagen, the weaver Johann Hojdn, the ironworker Johann Kapovits, the tailor Franz Mittendorfer, the machine worker Andreas Morth, the sorter Antonie Mück, the commercial clerk Felix Pfeiffer, the painter's assistant Anton Schädler, the machine fitter Franz Stelzel and the electrician Alfred Svobodnik.
Alfred Goldhammer was buried at the Inzersdorf cemetery.
Commemoration
A street and a plaque commemorate Alfred Goldhammer:
- In 1947, Goldhammergasse was named after him in the Mauer district of Vienna .
- His name can also be found on the plaque in the former execution room of the Vienna Regional Court .
Web links
- Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance : - Alfred Goldhammer , accessed on June 7, 2015
- Alfred Goldhammer. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ There are divergent information on the month of birth: the documentation archive of the Austrian resistance calls July, post-war justice January 1907
- ↑ Elsewhere, in the 2011 DÖW yearbook, page 220, the name of the company is referred to as “Stadlauer Lederindustrie Budischofsky-Konrath-Zeller”.
- ^ Goldhammergasse in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Goldhammer, Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian resistance fighter against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 27, 1907 or July 27, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 10, 1942 |
| Place of death | Vienna |