Franz Glötzl

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Franz Glötzl (born on October 13, 1910 ; died on December 18, 1942 in Vienna ) was an Austrian miner and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime . He was sentenced to death by the People's Court and beheaded.

life and work

Glötzl comes from Burgenland . Hardly any biographical information is known. He is mentioned in the article about Anton Roth in the publication The execution proceeded without any special features . One thing is certain: on August 12, 1942, he was tried before the People's Court - together with Ludwig Fabian , Alois Pelzmann and Anton Roth . The sentence for Franz Glötzl and the three co-defendants was the death penalty and the permanent loss of civil rights. The reason given is preparation for high treason . 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.

Announcement of the execution of four death sentences, December 18, 1942

The fate of Glötzl was processed literarily by Peter Wagner in a requiem. The secretive who cites files from the documentation archive of the Austrian resistance as sources . From the excerpt from Wagner's Requiem, a docu-drama published on his website, the following additional information emerges:

  • Egon Arthur Schmidt, observer of the Reich Propaganda Ministry at VGH trials, will note in his service book on August 12, 1942: Re 4. Glötzl, Franz, Bergmann, geb. 1910: A skilled Communist Party agitator!

Commemoration

Glötzl'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 32 / grave 108) 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 (with three photographs of the executed person): [1]
  • Peter Wagner : Requiem. The Concealed , accessed on May 18, 2015
  • 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 . Vienna: Alfred Klahr Society 2005

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Postwar Justice , accessed February 10, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Glötzl, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian miner and victim of the political justice of National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Burgenland
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1942
Place of death Vienna