Franz Hauer (resistance fighter)
Franz Hauer (born on January 28, 1905 in Vienna ; died on March 13, 1944 there ) was an Austrian shoemaker's assistant and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime . On November 27, 1943, he and five other resistance fighters were sentenced to death by the Nazi judiciary and executed three and a half months later in the Vienna Regional Court with the guillotine .
Life
As early as 1938, Hauer was sentenced to one year imprisonment for "communist activity". From 1939, according to the indictment, he worked as a “communist recruiter”, paid membership fees for the KPÖ and took part in meetings with officials. He was arrested and interrogated by the Vienna Gestapo on November 9, 1942 . The charge was "preparation for high treason ". He was finally sentenced to death by the People's Court on November 27, 1943 - together with comrade Franz Anderle , brothers Franz and Michael Heindl , Therese Klostermann and Max Schrems . The judgment can be seen:
“The defendants Klostermann, the Heindl brothers, Franz Hauer, Anderle and Schrems fell in the back of the hard-fighting front because they tried to destroy the home front as officials of the Communist Party until the end of 1942. Such deeds can only be atoned for with death. The National Socialist state would give up itself if it did not permanently exclude people who were consciously working for communism in the fourth year of the war from the German national community. "
On March 13, 1944, Franz Hauer was executed by guillotine in the execution room of the Vienna Regional Court . Together with him, 15 other resistance fighters were murdered by the Nazi regime on that day, including his co-defendants Franz Anderle, Franz and Michael Heindl, and Therese Klostermann, the only woman. The sixth defendant, Max Schrems, was not beheaded until April 7, 1944.
Hauer was buried in the shaft graves of group 40 (row 22 / grave 48) of the Vienna Central Cemetery .
Commemoration
- On November 1, 1954, the freedom fighter memorial was unveiled in the Atzgersdorf cemetery , designed by the sculptor Franz Pixner . It commemorates a total of 24 resistance fighters who lost their lives to Austrofascism and the Nazi regime : Anton Bergauer , Leo Dworschak , Hans Fröhlich , Karl Griesbach , Franz Hauer, Franz and Michael Heindl , Leopold Hofmann , Therese Klostermann , Richard Lehmann , Rudolf Mekiska , Viktor Mrnustik , Heinrich Müller , Josef Müller , Leopold Müller , Josef Nagl , Johann Sauer , Karl Schafhauser , Fritz Seiler , Max Spanner , Leopold Stípčak , Richard Suchy , Johann Teufel and Josef Willinger .
- His name was also engraved on the plaque in the former execution room of the Vienna Regional Court .
Hauer can also be found in the list of Liesinger Victims of National Socialism 1938 - 1945 of the Stones of Remembrance Initiative in Liesing , the erection of a memorial stone in front of his last place of residence is planned.
literature
- Willi Weinert: "You can put me out, but not the fire": Wiener Zentralfriedhof - Group 40. A guide through the grove of honor for the executed resistance fighters . 2nd Edition. Alfred Klahr Society, Vienna 2005, ISBN 978-3-9501986-0-7 , p. 80; P. 153 .
Web links
- Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance : no longer anonymous , with three photos from the identification file of the Gestapo Vienna, accessed on May 30, 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anti-fascist monuments and memorials. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (publisher), accessed on May 30, 2015
- ^ Post-War Justice , accessed May 30, 2015
- ↑ Liesingen Victims of National Socialism 1938–1945 , accessed on September 11, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hauer, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian shoemaker's assistant and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 13, 1944 |
| Place of death | Vienna |