Anton Reisinger

Anton Reisinger (born May 31, 1903 in Vienna ; † August 4, 1943 there ) was an Austrian party functionary ( KPÖ ) and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Reisinger had been a member of the Communist Youth Association (KJV) since 1918 and organized apprentice strikes during his training as a metal worker as a student council at the Mollardgasse vocational school. As a KVJ functionary, Reisinger became secretary of this youth organization in 1926, and he also became a member of the KPÖ. Due to right-wing opportunism, he was expelled from the KPÖ in 1929. From 1931 Reisinger stayed in the Soviet Union , where he attended the International Lenin School . Reisinger, who returned to Austria in 1935, was elected to the Central Committee of the KPÖ at the 12th party congress in September 1934 after a successful application for re-entry into the party. At the time of Austrofascism Reisinger continued his political work illegally and headed the provincial commission (Proko). Reisinger was arrested in 1937 and sentenced to three years in prison in a trial; he was released from prison in February 1938. Even before the “ Anschluss ” he went to France and soon afterwards returned to Austria with the task of reorganizing the KPÖ. On March 6, 1940, Reisinger was arrested in Bratislava and mistreated by Gestapo men . After a trial, Reisinger received the death sentence on May 28, 1943 and was beheaded on August 4, 1943 in the Vienna Regional Court.

Reisinger's name is listed on the memorial plaque for the twelve central committee members of the KPÖ who were murdered by the National Socialists, which is now in the house of the KPÖ Vienna 10 (Wieland School).

literature

• Willi Weinert: "I want you to always stay close to you all ..." Biographies of communist resistance fighters in Austria. With comments on the resistance struggle of the Communist Party of Austria and a list of victims , ed. from the Alfred Klahr Society and the KPÖ Steiermark. Vienna: Verlag der Alfred Klahr Gesellschaft 2005, ISBN 978-3-9501204-2-4

Web links

• Anton Reisinger at www.klahrgesellschaft.at