Hans Pramer

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Hans Pramer ( October 10, 1882 in St. Veit im Mühlkreis - May 29, 1943 in Landsberg am Lech ) was an Austrian railroad worker and resistance fighter against National Socialism . He was convicted of high treason and died in Landsberg prison .

Life

Pramer was a railroad worker. At a young age he joined the Social Democratic Workers' Party and was an active member of the section in the Gastein Valley. He moved to Werfen and became a shop steward for the Werfen local organization in 1917. He then went to Hallein , where he was for many years an SP functionary in the local and district organization, a member of the Republican Protection Association and until 1934 chairman of the railway workers' union in the Hallein district . After the establishment of the totalitarian corporate state and the prohibition of the Labor Party, Pramer joined the then also illegal trade union movement and the Revolutionary Socialists . He continued his resistance activity after the annexation of Austria . On February 22, 1942, he was arrested and sentenced to two years in prison for high treason by the People's Court in Berlin. He was sent to Landsberg Prison in Upper Bavaria , where he was killed on May 29, 1943.

Commemoration

Stumbling block in Hallein for Hans Pramer

In April 1945 the city of Hallein named Kornsteinplatz after Hans Pramer. However, as the historical name of the square was preserved in the parlance of the population, the municipality decided in 1967 to rename Kornsteinplatz and instead dedicated the station forecourt of Hallein to the resistance fighter.

On July 3, 2014, the Cologne artist Gunter Demnig laid a stumbling block with the following inscription in front of Pramer's last freely chosen residence, the house at Wiestal-Landesstrasse 19 in Hallein :


HANS PRAMER
JG LIVED HERE . 1882
ARRESTED February 22,
1942
LANDSBERG AM LECH JUDGMENT DEAD May 29,
1943

swell

  • Ernst Penninger: The street names of the city of Hallein , in: Communications from the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies 110/111, 1970/71, pp. 297–364
  • Wolfgang Wintersteller: March 1938 'Anschluss' in Hallein and the surrounding area , Hallein 1988.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Salzschreiber: Dramatic Remembrance in Brass ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on April 7, 2016. The date of death is incorrectly given as May 21, 1943.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.salzschreiber.at
  2. ^ Stolpersteine ​​Hallein: Pramer, Hans , accessed on April 7, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Pramer, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian railroad worker, resistance fighter and victim of the Nazi regime
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Veit in the Mühlkreis
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1943
Place of death Landsberg am Lech