Anton uranium

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Anton Uran (born February 22, 1920 at Hohen Karl in St. Martin am Techelsberg , † February 23, 1943 in Brandenburg-Görden ) was an Austrian member of Jehovah's Witnesses and a resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Uran was born the son of a woodworker and attended elementary school in St. Martin / T. and then worked until he was 20 years old as a woodworker and carver in the area of ​​his home community. While in school, his teachers judged him to be gifted but somewhat alive. He acquired good language skills in German and grew up in a mixed-language family. From the age of ten, Anton Uran was used to work in agriculture. There, too, he proved to be skillful and hardworking. Afterwards he learned from his father the trade of woodworker and carver.

Anton Uran was raised Catholic by his parents. As the son of an innkeeper, customs and festivals were not far from him. His parents' inn was often used for celebrations and gatherings of all kinds.

conversion

Anton Uran discovered his interest in the teachings of the Bible from 1938. During this time he worked as a woodworker in the forest and thus had the opportunity to talk to men like Johann Stossier or Matthäus Pibal, who also worked as forest workers. They imparted beliefs to him that they had taken self-taught from the Bible. His mother Cecilia did not know for a long time that her son was interested in the doctrine of the Bible Students' doctrine . After carefully examining his conscience, Anton Uran left the Roman Catholic Church in 1938 and converted to the Jehovah's Witnesses . He received his water baptism in the Forstsee in September 1938.

Conscientious objection

Towards the end of 1939, Anton Uran received the invitation to do his military service and initially resisted being drafted into the Wehrmacht . Citing his faith, he was unable to do military service, he argued to the military authorities, which arrested him in February 1940, transferred him to his unit and finally punished him for the first time. As numerous letters to his family indicate, he was forced to do forced labor in several camps . In his letters, however, he hardly said a word about the degrading treatment, the enormous physical strain and the psychological pressure. At most he asked for a few urgently needed hygienic items and gave courage and consolation to those who stayed at home.

Condemnation

In the course of 1942 Anton Uran was charged with “ decomposing military strength ” before the Reich Court Martial in Berlin. In the main hearing on January 22nd, 1943, the court sentenced the Carinthian employee to death and to deprive him of his civil rights . On February 23, 1943, the sentence was carried out in Brandenburg prison . Anton Uran died on the scaffold .

Rehabilitation

Anton Uran's name on the memorial at Annabichl cemetery, Klagenfurt, 2015.

On June 3, 1997, 52 years after the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht and 54 years after his execution, this judgment was overturned by the Vienna Regional Court at the request of Anton Uran's brother Erasmus. This was equivalent to an acquittal and is the full moral and legal justification of his attitude. From this rehabilitation case and the " Jägerstätter case ", the judgment of which was overturned by the Berlin Regional Court in the same year , a legal political rethinking process draws, at the end of which is the so-called "Annulment Act" in Austria, which came into force on December 1, 2009.

literature

  • Vinzenz Jobst: "Anton Uran's facts" to obtain an application for annulment before the Vienna Regional Court. Klagenfurt 2007.
  • Vinzenz Jobst: Anton Uran - persecuted, forgotten, executed. Klagenfurt 1997.
  • Erich Peter Piuk: Application for determination within the meaning of § 4 of the Repeal and Employment Act. BGBl. 48/1945. Klagenfurt May 12, 1997.
  • Reinhard Moos: The legal rehabilitation of the victims of the Nazi military justice. in Reinhard Kohlhofer, Reinhard Moos (Ed.): Austrian Victims of National Socialist Military Jurisdiction - Rehabilitation and Compensation / Colloquium. Verlag Österreich, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7046-4167-7 .
  • W. Baum / P. Gstettner / H. Haider / V. Jobst / P. Pirker (ed.): The book of names. Kitab, Klagenfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-902585-53-0 .
  • Vinzenz Jobst: Anton Uran - persecuted, forgotten, executed / Anton Uran - persecuted, forgotten, executed , 2nd Erw. Edition. Kitab, Klagenfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-902585-62-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martina Pibernik: "Nazi rule in the community Techelsberg am Wörthersee with special consideration of religious and politically motivated minorities" p.64 diploma thesis
  2. ↑ Chronicler of the labor movement ( memento from July 15, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) in Kleine Zeitung from April 30, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Uranium, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian victim of National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Martin am Techelsberg
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1943
Place of death Brandenburg-Görden