Franz Heindl

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Franz Heindl

Franz Heindl (born on June 26, 1906 in Vienna ; died on March 13, 1944 there ) was an Austrian laborer and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime . On November 27, 1943, he was sentenced to death by the Nazi judiciary together with his brother Michael Heindl and four other resistance fighters , and three months later he was executed with the guillotine in the Vienna Regional Court .

Life

Heindl was an unskilled worker, worked in the Varta battery factory (today ÖFA-Akkumulatoren GmbH) in Liesing and was an active member of the Austrian Communist Party . Together with his five years older brother Michael Heindl , a railway worker, he was arrested and interrogated by the Vienna Gestapo . The charge was "preparation for high treason ". The Heindl brothers - together with comrades Franz Anderle , Franz Hauer , Therese Klostermann and Max Schrems - were sentenced to death by the People's Court on November 27, 1943 .

The reasons for the judgment read:

“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. "

- People's Court : Death sentence against six Hietzinger and Liesinger resistance fighters, November 27, 1943

On March 13, 1944, the brothers Franz and Michael Heindl were executed by guillotine in the execution room of the Vienna Regional Court . Together with the brothers, 14 other resistance fighters were murdered by the Nazi regime that day, including their co-defendants Franz Anderle, Franz Hauer and Therese Klostermann. The sixth defendant, Max Schrems, was beheaded on April 7, 1944.

The two brothers were not only arrested, convicted, and executed together, they were also buried in the same grave - in the shaft graves of Group 40 (row 24 / grave 204) of the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Commemoration

Monument to Franz Heindl and Viktor Mrustik
Freedom fighter memorial at Atzgersdorf cemetery, erected in 1954
Street sign of the Brüder-Heindl-Gasse in Vienna

The two brothers can also be found in the list of Liesinger Victims of National Socialism 1938–1945 of the Stones of Remembrance Initiative in Liesing , and plans to erect two memorial stones in front of the house at Parkgasse 18.

literature

  • Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna . 2nd Edition. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 2004, ISBN 978-3-218-00740-5 .
  • 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 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brüder-Heindl-Gasse in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  2. ^ Peter Autengruber : Lexicon of Viennese street names. Meaning, origin, background information, previous designation (s). Vienna Pichler-Verlag, 9th edition 2014, 55
  3. ↑ Anti-fascist monuments and memorials. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (publisher), with images of the Varta and Freedom Fighter Memorial, accessed on May 16, 2015
  4. ^ Postwar Justice , accessed May 15, 2015
  5. ↑ Liesingen Victims of National Socialism 1938–1945 , accessed on September 11, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Heindl, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian unskilled worker and resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1944
Place of death Vienna