Friedrich Muzyka

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Friedrich Muzyka (born July 7, 1921 in Vienna ; died May 24, 1944 there ) was an Austrian printing assistant and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime . He was sentenced to death by the Nazi judiciary and executed with the guillotine in the Vienna Regional Court .

life and work

Muzyka learned to be a printer. He belonged to the Communist Youth Association of Austria (KJVÖ) , which was illegal from 1934, and the resistance group The Soldiers Council. From February 1942 he organized the dispatch of pamphlets to civilians and members of the Wehrmacht.

He was arrested on May 17, 1943 and interrogated by the Gestapo. On February 8, 1944, the meeting took place before the People's Court in Vienna, and comrades Ernestine Diwisch , Alfred Rabofsky , Ernestine Soucek , Sophie Vitek and Anna Wala were also indicted . Diwisch, Muzkya, Rabofsky, Vitek and Wala were sentenced to death and "loss of honor for life". The reasoning for the judgment read on preparation for high treason and favoring the enemy . Only Sophie Vitek, whose death sentence was changed to 15 years in prison, and Ernestine Soucek, who had been sentenced to eight or nine years in prison, survived the Nazi regime.

He was executed by guillotine on May 24, 1944, together with Ernestine Diwisch and Anna Wala , as well as 13 other political prisoners of the Nazi regime . Rabofsky was not beheaded until September 19, 1944.

Commemoration

Muzkya's name can be found on the plaque in the former execution room of the Vienna Regional Court . He is buried in the shaft graves of group 40 (row 22 / grave 161) of the Vienna Central Cemetery .

literature

  • Alfred-Klahr-Gesellschaft : On the history of the Communist Youth Association 1918–1945 , accessed on May 15, 2015
  • Katharina Kniefacz, Alexander Krysl, Manès Weisskircher: University and discipline: Members of the University of Vienna and National Socialism. Münster 2011, 33
  • University of Vienna : Austrian Women in Resistance , entry on Sophie Vitek , accessed on May 15, 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 . Verlag Alfred-Klahr-Ges., 2005

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katharina Kniefacz, Alexander Krysl, Manès Weisskircher: University and Discipline: Members of the University of Vienna and National Socialism , Münster 2011, 32f
  2. ↑ Divergent Sources.
  3. ↑ No longer anonymous ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ith.or.at archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Entry on Friedrich Muzyka (with three photos from the Gestapo Vienna ID card index), accessed on May 15, 2015
  4. ^ Post-War Justice , accessed April 4, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Muzyka, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian printer assistant and resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1944
Place of death Vienna