Franz Tesarik

Franz Tesarik (born March 21, 1912 in Zdislavice ; executed May 17, 1943 in Vienna ) was an Austrian tailor's assistant and resistance fighter against National Socialism of the Czech- speaking minority. He was sentenced to death by the Nazi regime and beheaded in the Vienna Regional Court .

Life

Tesarik was a tailor's assistant and lived in Vienna-Hernals . He was a member of the Social Democratic Czech Workers 'Sports Club for physical exercise and from 1932 of the Socialist Workers' Youth . He later joined the communist resistance. He is said to have distributed educational material against the Nazi regime together with Vladimír Zoul , also a tailor's assistant, and he also met the KPÖ functionary Hedwig Urach .

He was arrested and interrogated by the Vienna Gestapo on May 21, 1941 . On December 16, 1942, Franz Tesarik was killed by the People's Court in Vienna together with four co-defendants, the goldsmith's assistant Friedrich Nesvadba , the tailor's assistant Alfons Peschke and Vladimír Zoul and the tailor Hedwig Urach , because of "the preparation for communist high treason committed during the war " Guillotine sentenced. He spent almost half a year on death row in the Vienna Regional Court.

“After Zoul took over the post of district treasurer in the summer of 1940, Tesarik helped him with the collection of membership fees and later also with the procurement and distribution of communist literature. According to the information provided by Tesarik at the main hearing, in the autumn of 1940 the co-defendant Zoul once brought 10 copies of the pamphlet " Weg und Ziel " to his apartment for distribution , which Tesarik sent to [Johann] Gollinger, [Eduard] Wibihal and forwarded other like-minded people. "

- People's Court : Justification of the five death sentences against Friedrich Nesvadba, Alfons Peschke, Franz Tesarik, Hedy Urach and Vladimír Zoul, December 16, 1942

On May 17, 1943, red posters in Vienna announced the execution of Franz Tesarik, Hedwig Urach and Vladimír Zoul.

Commemoration

His name can be found on two plaques and a memorial:

On the memorial for the victims of the resistance of the Czechoslovak minority in Vienna at the Vienna Central Cemetery ,
on the memorial plaque for the Czech minority at Leibnitzgasse 10 in Vienna-Favoriten , dedicated to the "Heroes of the Czech and Slovak minorities who sacrificed their lives for the freedom of Austria and Czechoslovakia."
on the memorial plaque in the former execution room of the Vienna Regional Court , where Zoul died, now a consecration room for the executed Nazi victims.

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Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance , keyword Friedrich Nesvadba, accessed on August 1, 2015
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 . 3. Edition. Alfred Klahr Society, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-9502478-2-4 , p. 257 .

Individual evidence

^ ZPA, [Geheime Staatspolizei, Staatspolizeileitstelle Wien], II A 1, B. No. 200/41 of September 11, 1941, further negotiated, pp. 2–8; DÖW 11081, Der Oberreichsanwalt bei Volksgerichtshof, 7 J 95/42 of May 29, 1942, indictment against Alfons Peschke, Friedrich Nesvadba, Hedwig Urach, Wladimir Zoul and Franz Tesarik, pp. 13 and 15-18, excerpts from: Resistance and persecution in Vienna (see note 48), Vol. 2: 1938–1945, Doc. 143, 177–180
↑ Manfred Mugrauer: Soldier of the Just Cause . On the 100th birthday of the communist resistance fighter Hedy Urach, in: Mitteilungen der Alfred Klahr Gesellschaft, 17th year, No. 3, September 2001, 9–21
↑ 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 . 3. Edition. Alfred Klahr Society, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-9502478-2-4 , p. 257 .
↑ Matthias Keuschnigg in: Library Association in the Regional Court for Criminal Matters Vienna (ed.): Catalog The History of the Gray House and Austrian Criminal Jurisdiction , Vienna 2012, Chapter 5, NS-Unrechtsjustiz , 137
^ Eduard Kubů, Gudrun Exner: Czechs, asset deprivation and restitution , Oldenbourg Verlag 2004, 143
^ Postwar Justice , accessed July 31, 2015
↑ Anti-fascist monuments and memorials. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (publisher), accessed on March 29, 2015
^ Postwar Justice , accessed August 1, 2015

personal data
SURNAME	Tesarik, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian tailor's assistant and resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH	March 21, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zdislavice
DATE OF DEATH	May 17, 1943
Place of death	Vienna

[1] ZPA, [Geheime Staatspolizei, Staatspolizeileitstelle Wien], II A 1, B. No. 200/41 of September 11, 1941, further negotiated, pp. 2–8; DÖW 11081, Der Oberreichsanwalt bei Volksgerichtshof, 7 J 95/42 of May 29, 1942, indictment against Alfons Peschke, Friedrich Nesvadba, Hedwig Urach, Wladimir Zoul and Franz Tesarik, pp. 13 and 15-18, excerpts from: Resistance and persecution in Vienna (see note 48), Vol. 2: 1938–1945, Doc. 143, 177–180

[2] Manfred Mugrauer: Soldier of the Just Cause . On the 100th birthday of the communist resistance fighter Hedy Urach, in: Mitteilungen der Alfred Klahr Gesellschaft, 17th year, No. 3, September 2001, 9–21

[3] 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 . 3. Edition. Alfred Klahr Society, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-9502478-2-4 , p. 257 .

[4] Matthias Keuschnigg in: Library Association in the Regional Court for Criminal Matters Vienna (ed.): Catalog The History of the Gray House and Austrian Criminal Jurisdiction , Vienna 2012, Chapter 5, NS-Unrechtsjustiz , 137

[5] Eduard Kubů, Gudrun Exner: Czechs, asset deprivation and restitution , Oldenbourg Verlag 2004, 143

[6] Postwar Justice , accessed July 31, 2015

[7] Anti-fascist monuments and memorials. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (publisher), accessed on March 29, 2015

[8] Postwar Justice , accessed August 1, 2015