Anton Rausch (resistance fighter)

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Anton "Toni" Rausch (born November 6, 1913 in Kirchbichl , † June 30, 1944 in Munich ) was an Austrian resistance fighter against National Socialism in Kitzbühel .

Life

Rausch was part of the labor movement early on and was imprisoned for a few weeks after participating in the February 1934 social democratic uprising against the corporate state . After he had been discharged from military service for health reasons, he headed the Kitzbühel consumer branch from 1939.

During the time of National Socialism, Rausch joined the communist resistance led by Robert Uhrig from Berlin and headed the Kitzbühel Uhrig group, which operated under the name "Roby" (a nickname for Uhrig). The group also included Andreas Obernauer, Josef Pair, Viktor da Pont and Ignaz Zloczower. The group was active in the Red Aid and organized illegal information meetings. Rausch is said to have recruited new members for the group and participated in a few meetings during Uhrig's two stays in Tyrol . Uhrig's second trip to Tyrol in autumn 1941 was closely monitored by the Gestapo by an informer.

He was arrested on February 4, 1942. During his prisoner transport to Innsbruck he was able to warn the Kufsteiner Uhrig group. From January 7th to September 23rd, 1943 he was in the Dachau concentration camp . Like other members of the resistance in the Tyrolean lowlands (including Adele Stürzl ), he ended up before the People's Court under Hermann Granzow . On April 7, 1944, the People's Court sentenced him to death . The judgment was justified with “organizational and agitational preparation for high treason in unity with treasonous favor”. On June 30, 1944, he was executed in Munich-Stadelheim .

Appreciation

In 1955, in the municipal council of Rausch's home parish Kirchbichl, an application to erect a memorial for him in front of the elementary school and to name the square after him was postponed. In 2015, the culture committee of the Kitzbühel municipality decided to erect a memorial plaque in the Katharinenkirche for the five Kitzbühel members of the Uhrig group.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Karl Prieler: Kitzbühel and memory. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on March 25, 2016 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / webs.schule.at  
  2. ↑ a b c Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government (Ed.): The people who died for Austria's freedom. The Liberation Monument and Memory. An intervention . Innsbruck 2011, p. 106 f .
  3. ↑ Gisela Hormayr: The resistance against the Nazi regime. In: Erinnern.at. Retrieved March 25, 2016 .
  4. ^ Remembrance of May 8, 1945. In: Bezirksblatt Kitzbühel. April 2, 2015, accessed March 25, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Harald Angerer: memorial plaque in preparation. In: Tyrolean daily newspaper . Retrieved March 11, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Intoxication, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Intoxication, Toni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchbichl
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1944
Place of death Munich