Fritz brother-in-law
Fritz Schwager (* 1913 in Vienna ; † 1966 in Erfurt ) was an Austrian KPÖ politician. He was a prisoner in the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp and after 1945 an official of the SED .
Life
Brother-in-law learned the trade of a locksmith after attending primary school . He became a member of the union and joined the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP). As a participant in the February fighting , he fled to the CSR in 1934 and joined the KPÖ there. In the same year he went to the Soviet Union, where he attended a party school. He returned to Austria via Brunn in 1935.
As early as 1936 he was sentenced to four months' arrest for illegal activity in Vienna. After his release from prison, he worked as an instructor for the Central Committee of the KPÖ until the invasion of Hitler's troops in Austria.
Legalization offered itself in 1938 and Schwager was able to work in the profession he had learned. He came to Timelkam for the OKA on assembly, where he made contact with the communists in this company. These in turn established a connection to Goisern. The Gestapo later knew to note that he had "participated in numerous discussions and gatherings of high officials of the KPÖ and established a connection between the Central Committee in Vienna and the illegal groups in Upper Danube".
On March 4, 1941, Friedrich Schwager was arrested again and taken to the Wels district court. There he was imprisoned in a cell with the communist Alois Straubinger from Goisern . Fearing a death sentence for him, brother-in-law urged to flee. While visiting his wife, he came across a hacksaw that could cut through a bar. They managed to escape at night on July 10, 1942.
Friedrich Schwager was arrested again on November 21, 1942 and sentenced to death by the People's Court on February 20, 1943 for “preparing for high treason” . Then he was sent to the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp .
After the liberation in 1945 he went to the nearest town of Nordhausen and became political secretary of the KPD district leadership. In 1946 he became equal district chairman in the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). Schwager was one of the reliable followers of a Moscow-loyal line of the SED leadership under Wilhelm Pieck . From 1949 to 1951 he was sent to Gera as the first secretary of the SED district leadership in order to suppress the strong influence of former social democrats that still existed there in the SED. In 1952 he first became an employee, then a member of the Erfurt District Council for Agriculture, where he died in 1966.
criticism
In the " International Scientific Correspondence on the History of the German Labor Movement " Schwager was connected with the smuggling of informants into communist resistance groups.
literature
- Steffen Kachel : A red-red special path? Social Democrats and Communists in Thuringia 1919 to 1949 , = publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia, Small Series Volume 29, p. 566, ISBN 978-3-412-20544-7 .
Web links
- http://www.antifa.co.at/antifa/ai150.pdf (pp. 13–14) (PDF; 4.2 MB)
- Christian Hawle: Escape from the judicial prison (p. 21)
Individual evidence
- ^ New Germany of August 13, 1950
- ^ New Germany of August 20, 1962
- ↑ Hans Schafranek : V-people and "traitors". The infiltration of communist resistance groups by confederates of the Vienna Gestapo IWK, issue 3/2000, pp. 300–349. Retrieved June 10, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brother-in-law, Fritz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brother-in-law, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian party functionary (SPÖ / KPÖ / KPD / SED) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1966 |
| Place of death | Erfurt |