Alois Lindner

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Alois Lindner (born August 14, 1887 in Kelheim ; † after 1943 ) was a German worker who committed an assassination attempt in the Bavarian state parliament in February 1919 .

Life

Alois Lindner was a trained butcher and cook. After the fall of the monarchy in 1918, he co-founded the Revolutionary Workers' Council in Munich. On February 21, 1919, news of the murder of the Bavarian Prime Minister Kurt Eisner ( USPD ) by the right-wing extremist assassin Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley reached the Revolutionary Workers' Council, which was meeting in the state parliament building. Shortly after 11 a.m., Lindner stormed armed into the constituent session of the newly elected state parliament, which the senior president Eugen Jäger led. He struck down Eisner's political rival, Interior Minister Erhard Auer ( SPD ), whom he saw as the mastermind behind this crime, with an aimed shot. Major Paul Ritter von Jahreiß tried to stop Lindner and was killed by him; Auer survived seriously injured. It could not be determined whether the bullet that fatally struck Heinrich Osel, member of the state parliament during the tumult , also came from Lindner's weapon, since at the same time a stranger fired from the visitors' gallery into the plenary. Lindner escaped and fled to Hungary , but was arrested and extradited in Austria that same year.

On December 15, 1919, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison by the Munich People's Court for attempted manslaughter and aggravated manslaughter. He had to serve eight years of his sentence in Straubing . When 71 political prisoners were pardoned in October 1927 on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Reich President Paul von Hindenburg , Lindner was not among them. He was released in the course of the Koch amnesty of July 14, 1928 after a campaign by Red Aid Germany , which was supported by numerous intellectuals and, among many others, was also aimed at his release .

In the early 1930s he emigrated to the Soviet Union , fought in the Red Army and worked for the CPSU in Moscow as an " agitator " until 1941 . In 1943 his traces are lost in Kalinin .

Works

  • Adventure rides by a revolutionary worker. New German publishing house, Berlin 1924.

literature

  • Friedrich Hitzer: Anton Graf Arco. The assassination attempt on Kurt Eisner and the shots in the state parliament . Knesebeck & Schuler, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-926901-01-2 .
  • Norman Dankerl: Alois Lindner. The life of the Bavarian adventurer and revolutionary . Lichtung, Viechtach 2007, ISBN 978-3-929517-79-8 ( reading sample [accessed on April 30, 2013]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Erich Mühsam: We don't give up! Texts and poems . Ed .: Günther Gerstenberg (=  Edition Monacensia ). Allitera, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-8330-8007-8 , p. 159 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ The minutes of the state parliament noted: “Now shots are fired.” “Everything is leaving the room.” And “The session ends at 11.13 minutes”: negotiations in the Bavarian state parliament 1919–1933 . I. Volume. Stenographic reports on the public meetings in 1919 No. 1–27. Munich 1919, first public meeting. Friday, February 21, 1919, p. 2 ( online [accessed April 30, 2013]).
  3. ^ A b c David Clay Large: Hitler's Munich . The rise and fall of the capital of the movement. CH Beck, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-44195-5 , p. 137 (American English: Where Ghosts Walked. Munich's Road to the Third Reich . Translated by Karl Heinz Siber).
  4. ↑ a b Dankerl: Alois Lindner . 2007, Foreword ( online [accessed April 30, 2013]).
  5. ↑ Rote Hilfe Deutschlands (Ed.): List of names of the proletarian political prisoners who are not amnestied. As of October 31, 1927 . Berlin 1927 ( Online [PDF; 1.6 MB ; accessed on July 15, 2012]).
  6. ↑ DNB 574621342
personal data
SURNAME Lindner, Alois
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lindner, Alex Josefowitzsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German assassin
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Kelheim
DATE OF DEATH after 1943