Franz Jaindl-Haring

Franz Jaindl-Haring (born October 2, 1895 in Graz ; † July 21, 1944 Plötzensee prison , Berlin ) was an Austro-German worker and a victim of Nazi war justice.

Life

Jaindl-Haring lived from 1928 to 1937 as a self-employed master mechanic in Leibnitz . Politically, he adhered to communism. In 1918 he took part in the January strike in Kapfenberg . Both before and after 1934 he was repeatedly imprisoned for communist activities.

In 1938 Jaindl-Haring fled to Yugoslavia because he feared he would be arrested. There he settled under the name Franz Jäger in Zagreb , where he found work as a lathe operator.

In the summer of 1942 Jaindl-Haring met an old friend from Leibnitz, Karl Kada, who had come to the city as a non-commissioned officer in the German occupation army. After Kada reported the meeting to his superiors and added that he knew Jaindl-Haring as an old communist, he was given the task of quietly listening to him about his political relationships. As a result, there were several conversations between the two men, in which Jaindl-Haring said, among other things, that the First World War would soon come to an end after the American entry into the war and that this time it would also happen: Russia would win the war, Austria would die The German Reich would be separated again and a democracy would be restored, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and other states would also be restored. Germany itself would be divided up, Adolf Hitler would shoot himself at the moment of defeat. At the same time, Jaindl-Haring Kada offered help for the time after the lost war.

After Kada Jaindl-Haring's statements had been communicated to the authorities, he was arrested on November 3, 1942 and sent to the Dachau concentration camp . In June 1944 Jaindl was because of him against Kada - a Wehrmacht - statements made for military morale before the People's Court in Berlin under the chairmanship of the Supreme Court Council Hermann Granzow (member: Landgerichtsdirektor Dr. Lorenz, General Labor Leader Charles of Wenckstern , SA Brigade Commander Daniel Hauer and Hitler Youth -Hauptbannführer Kleeberg) indicted. At the June 22, 1944 session, he was found guilty and sentenced to death. He was executed in the Berlin-Plötzensee prison.

literature

• Heimo Halbrainer: "In the certainty that you will continue the fight": Letters from Styrian resistance fighters from death cell and concentration camp , 2000, p. 147f.