Franz Mager

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Franz Mager (born June 2, 1895 - † February 26, 1943 in Vienna ) was an Austrian tram driver who was sentenced to death and beheaded by the Nazi judiciary .

Life

Mager was a carpenter , member of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria , after 1934 the KPÖ . He was arrested as early as 1935 during the corporate state for trade union activities, and then again on March 17, 1941 by the Nazi regime. On November 23, 1942, he was sentenced to death by the People's Court . During the 55 days Mager spent in custody, 110 of his fellow inmates were executed. The execution of Franz Mager took place on 26 February 1943, the guillotine .

His body was buried in group 40, row 30, grave 10 at the Vienna Central Cemetery, exhumed in 1945 and buried at the Leobersdorf cemetery.

Commemoration

On November 24, 1947, Vice Mayor Karl Honay unveiled a marble plaque for the tram drivers and victims of Nazi justice Josef Lengauer and Franz Mager in the main tram workshop in Siebeneichengasse .

His name can also be found on the plaque in the former execution room of the Vienna Regional Court .

proof

  1. ↑ Félix Kreissler: La prize de conscience de la nation autrichienne: 1938, 1945, 1978, Volume 1 , Publication Univ Rouen Havre 1980, 376
  2. ↑ DÖW , accessed on March 14, 2015
  3. ^ Italian blog , accessed March 14, 2015
  4. ↑ [mahnruf-2011-05.pdf - Webnode Mahnruf], accessed on March 14, 2015
  5. ^ Friedhöfe Wien: Friedhöfe Wien , accessed on March 14, 2015
  6. ↑ Consecration site at the Vienna Regional Court , accessed on March 14, 2015
  7. ^ City hall correspondence , accessed on March 14, 2015
  8. ^ Postwar Justice , accessed March 15, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Lean, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian tram driver and resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1895
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1943
Place of death Vienna