Franziska Appel
Franziska Appel b. Rind (born February 21, 1892 in Vienna ; died April 29, 1943 there ) was an Austrian tailor and resistance fighter against National Socialism . She was sentenced to death by the Nazi judiciary and beheaded.
Life
Appel lived in the 8th district of Vienna, the Josefstadt . She joined the Social Democratic Labor Party of Austria in 1931 and the Revolutionary Socialists in 1934 . She worked as a district cashier for the Red Aid .
On July 11, 1941, Franziska Appel was arrested by the Vienna Gestapo , subjected to identification and interrogation. On November 13, 1942, she was sentenced to death by the People's Court together with Anna and Leopold Herbrich , Walter Kosjek and Franz Ludwig Langer .
“These [defendants] tirelessly identified with Bolshevism during the war, the importance of which for the fate of the German people was known to them. You have carried out a particularly dangerous activity by distributing pamphlets in particular. The idea of atonement and the protection of the national community does not allow any other choice than the death penalty. Leopold and Anna Herbrich, Kosjek, Langer and Franziska Appel are therefore sentenced to death. "
The execution by the guillotine took place on April 29, 1943 at 6:18 pm in the Vienna Regional Court . The four co-defendants and 18 other resistance fighters were also executed on the same day. Appel was buried in the shaft graves of group 40 (row 28 / grave 13) of the Vienna Central Cemetery .
Commemoration
- Memorial plaque of the KPÖ in Vienna's Drechslergasse
- Memorial plaque in the former execution room of the Vienna Regional Court
Identical names
There is a second woman of the same name who fell victim to the Nazi regime. Franziska Appel, b. Klein (1884–1942) lived in Frankfurt am Main and was murdered in the Lublin region . A stumbling block to remember can be found in the list of stumbling blocks in Frankfurt's old town . A third woman named Franziska Appel founded Listo Videofilm GesmbH in Vienna in 1985 .
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- Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance : no longer anonymous , keyword Leopold Herbrich, accessed on August 2, 2015
- Willi Weinert : “You can put me out, but not the fire”: a guide through the grove of honor of Group 40 at the Vienna Central Cemetery for the executed resistance fighters . Wiener Stern-Verlag 2011 (3rd verb. And extended edition), 76
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Appel, Franziska |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rind, Franziska (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian seamstress and resistance fighter against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 21, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 29, 1943 |
| Place of death | Vienna |