Franz Strohmer (resistance fighter)
Franz Strohmer ( August 6, 1912 in Riegers - November 19, 1943 in Vienna ) was an Austrian electrician and resistance fighter against the corporate state and National Socialism . He was sentenced to death by the Nazi regime and beheaded.
life and work
Franz Strohmer had at least one younger brother, Johann, born on April 30, 1917 in Riegers, named Hans. He became an electrician and married Ida, née Beck, on February 11, 1939 (born May 5, 1922 in Hegyeshalom). The couple had a daughter named Renate, born in June 1941. He first joined the Social Democrats and later the Communists. He granted accommodation to the KPÖ functionary Julius Kornweitz and obtained forged documents for him. He also distributed communist pamphlets. His death certificate is Neustift am Wald No. 105 at. He was arrested in May 1942, indicted on July 7, 1943, sentenced to death by the People's Court on September 30, 1943 for "preparation for high treason" and executed in the Vienna Regional Court on November 19, 1943 .
His younger brother was arrested on March 16, 1945 and shot by the SS on April 4, 1945 on an evacuation march from the Oberlanzendorf labor education camp to the Mauthausen concentration camp in Katzeldorf near Tulln. His wife Ida was arrested on March 16, 1945, survived the evacuation march, but was murdered on April 17, 1945 in Mauthausen concentration camp.
literature
- Lukas Sainitzer: I don't mourn the years , Berger Verlag, Horn / Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-85028-569-8
source
- Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance : Strohmer Franz , accessed on March 11, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistical Office for the Alpine and Danube Reichsgaue: Death , accessed on March 10, 2018
- ↑ Excerpt from the indictment of the Oberreichsanwaltes at the VGH against Franz Strohmer, Johann Stolba and Franz Zeidler for preparing to commit high treason, in: Resistance and persecution in Vienna 1934–1945 - A documentation, Vol. 2, 1938–1945, Vienna, 1975, ISBN 9783215722134 , p. 116
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Strohmer, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian electrician and resistance fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 6, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Riegers |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 19, 1943 |
| Place of death | Vienna |