Alois Pelzmann

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Alois Pelzmann (born April 13, 1894 in Borgsdorf, Fürstenfeld ; died December 18, 1942 in Vienna ) was an Austrian worker and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime . He was sentenced to death by the People's Court and beheaded.

Life

Pelzmann was an agricultural worker and lived in Güssing . He joined the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria in 1923 and the KPÖ in 1933 . Even before 1938 he was head of the communist local group of Stegersbach . On August 12, 1942, he was tried - together with Ludwig Fabian , Franz Glötzl and Anton Roth - at the People's Court in Graz . The sentence for all four of the defendants was the death penalty and permanent loss of civil rights. The reason given is preparation for high treason .

“When his brother-in-law Anton Roth revealed to him in 1939 that he was a member of the KPÖ, Pelzmann was also willing to persuade him to pay contributions of 1 RM per month until June 1941. His earlier protection for Marxist activities did not apply to him Impression remained. At the roll call in December 1940 he was employed as a local cashier for Stegersbach and subsequently recruited the worker Josef Moritz, the farmer Hermann Graf, the mail orderer Julius Hobel and the bricklayer Anton Graf for the KPÖ. "

- People's Court : Reasons for the death sentences against Ludwig Fabian, Franz Glötzl, Alois Pelzmann and Anton Roth, August 12, 1942
Announcement of the execution of four death sentences, December 18, 1942

The execution of all four defendants took place on December 18, 1942 in the Regional Court of Vienna by guillotine . The senior realm attorney at the People's Court ordered the execution of the four resistance fighters to be announced by means of a public poster. Franz Glötzl's name is misspelled on it, the first L.

Commemoration

Pelzmann's name can be found on the plaque in the former execution room of the Vienna Regional Court . He is buried in the shaft graves of group 40 (row 31 / grave 125) of the Vienna Central Cemetery .

swell

  • Bailer , Maderthaner , Scholz (eds.): The execution proceeded without any special features. Executions in Vienna, 1938 - 1945. Vienna, undated, 88f. Online version: [1]
  • Willi Weinert : “You can put me out, but not the fire”: a guide through the grove of honor of Group 40 at the Vienna Central Cemetery for the executed resistance fighters . Wiener Stern-Verlag 2011 (3rd verb. And extended edition), p. 208.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ There is a discrepancy with regard to joining the KPÖ and management function in Stegersbach between the scientific source (cf. Weinert 2011, p. 208) and the reasons for the judgment. However, there was neither a need nor an obligation on the part of the defendant to inform the court that he had been a member of the party since 1933 and had already assumed a management position in 1938.
  2. ^ Postwar Justice , accessed on August 2, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Pelzmann, Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian worker and victim of the political justice system of National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Borgsdorf, Fürstenfeld
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1942
Place of death Vienna