Monuments and memorial plaques for Viennese tram drivers

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In the area of Wiener Linien , the city's own transport company, there are monuments and memorial plaques commemorating the victims of the corporate state and National Socialism :

Memorial to Hedy Urach and Hietzinger tram drivers

The memorial consists of a plaque at the Speising depot of Wiener Linien at Hetzendorfer Straße 188 in the 13th district . It is dedicated to three Viennese tram workers and Hedy Urach, the daughter of a tram driver from Hietzing , who were sentenced to death by the Nazi regime for resisting National Socialism and executed with the guillotine . The memorial was opened to the public on November 9, 1947.

Memorial, 13., Hetzendorfer Straße 188, for the Nazi victims between 1938 and 1945 and with a memorial plaque for Hedy Urach and the named Hietzingen tram drivers who were executed for their resistance to the Nazi regime.

inscription

Immortal
victims
Hedy
Urach 		Emil
König 		Heinrich
Lochner 		Max
Schrems
1910-1943 1899-1943 1899-1943 1892-1944
They died for freedom
and human dignity under the hatchet of
the Hitler fascists .
From the colleagues at the station. Speising.

Donor and unveiling

The Viennese tram operators were the donors of the monument . The unveiling of the memorial took place on November 9, 1947, two weeks after the unveiling of the memorial for the firefighters murdered by fascism (Am Hof) in the inner city by Mayor Theodor Körner .

Other monuments and plaques

Former depot Meidling, 12th district: memorial for the victims of fascism between 1934 and 1945.
Rudolfsheim depot, 15th district: memorial plaque on the shed in the entrance to the depot: "Johann Gärtner lived and worked for unity and freedom, executed in the era of fascism on November 8, 1944. His work colleague"
Former belt station, 18th district: memorial plaque for Leopold Pill and Adolf Schmutzer and for "39 colleagues who lost their lives in the air raid on July 16, 1944 at the belt station."

There are a number of other memorials for Viennese tram drivers who fell victim to Austrofascism or the Nazi regime (in the order of the districts of Vienna ):

Erdberg depot

A central memorial, donated by the staff representatives of Wiener Verkehrsbetriebe (1953), was to be seen in the courtyard of the management building of Wiener Verkehrsbetriebe (4th, Favoritenstrasse 9); Today it is located in the Erdberg tram depot , 3rd, Kappgasse 2, by the Erdberg underground station . It lists the names of 42 employees of the Vienna Transport Company who fell in February 1934 or lost their lives in the resistance against the Nazi regime.

Favorites depot

A memorial plaque at the Favoriten depot (10., Gudrunstraße 153–159) commemorates seven members of an anti-fascist group who were murdered by the National Socialists for collecting money from 1939 to 1941 for the families of prisoners.

Former Meidling depot

A memorial to the victims of fascism between 1934 and 1945 at the abandoned depot Meidling (12., Koppreitergasse / Edelsinnstraße) commemorates the victims of a bomb attack on the depot on February 21, 1945 and the tram drivers who died as members of the Wehrmacht , as well as a plaque commemorating four tram drivers who were executed as members of a resistance group for collecting money for families of inmates and for distributing illegal literature.

Rudolfsheim depot

In the Rudolfsheim depot (15., Schwendergasse 51) there is a memorial for the victims of fascism at the depot at the entrance to the depot between the tracks. A resistance group, mainly members of the Schutzbund , was active in the depot . A memorial plaque for one of them, which was dedicated to him by his work colleagues, was Johann Gärtner (* 1894), who was arrested by the Gestapo and executed on November 8, 1944.

Former main workshop in Siebeneichengasse

On November 24, 1947, a marble plaque for Josef Lengauer and Franz Mager was unveiled by Vice Mayor Karl Honay in the main tram workshop in Siebeneichengasse in the 15th district .

Memorial plaques in Währing

Two plaques commemorate three executed resistance fighters against National Socialism from the circle of Viennese tram drivers, one at the Währing depot (18th, Kreuzgasse 72-76), one at the Gürtel (18th, Währinger Gürtel 131).

Memorial stone in the Brigittenau

Since 1946 a memorial stone in Brigittenau (20th, Wexstraße 13) commemorates six tram drivers who lost their lives in the struggle for a free Austria and for the labor movement and were beheaded on March 30, 1943 in the Vienna Regional Court.

Kagran underground station

A memorial plaque that was originally placed at the Kagran tram depot in the 22nd district is now at the Kagran underground station . It commemorates five tram drivers who died defending democracy in February 1934.

literature

  • Erich Fein: The stones speak: Memorials of the Austrian struggle for freedom, memorials f. the victims of fascism: a documentary. European publishing house, 1975.
  • Felix Czeike (Ed.): Hetzendorfer Strasse. In:  Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 3, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-218-00545-0 , p. 175 ( digitized version ).
  • Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance (ed.): Gedenken und Mahnen in Vienna 1934–1945. Memorials to resistance and persecution, exile, liberation. A documentation. Deuticke, Vienna 1998, pp. 108–111.
  • Volker Thurm (Ed.): Vienna and the Vienna Circle: Places of an Unfinished Modern Age - an accompanying book. Maudrich, 2003.
  • Willi Weinter: "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 resistance fighters and victims of fascism as well as for those in other cemeteries in Vienna and the surrounding area. Stern, Vienna 2011, p. 80.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ November 24, 1947: Unveiling of memorial plaque for justified tram drivers. In: Historical review of the town hall correspondence - Vienna 1947: Reports from November 1947 City of Vienna (publisher), accessed on September 16, 2018.
  2. ^ Reference to Vienna History Wiki: Erected on December 31, 1991 in Vienna 3rd, Kappgasse 1. Previously in Vienna 4th, Favoritenstraße 9, in the courtyard of the Vienna public transport company . The memorial was donated by the Vienna Public Transport Authority's staff representatives and unveiled in 1953 by Mayor Franz Jonas .