Hermann Lein
Hermann Lein (born August 24, 1920 in Vienna ; † February 1, 2006 there ) was an Austrian Catholic resistance fighter against National Socialism , contemporary witness of Nazi crimes, teacher and author. He was an " Innitzer Guard ".
Life
In 1934 Hermann Lein joined a Catholic youth group of the “ Bund Neuland ”. It was here that he met his wife, a so-called “ half-Jew ”, whom he married after the war ended in 1945. He was active in the resistance against the Nazi regime in Vienna during the National Socialist era.
On October 7, 1938, he took part in the so-called Rosary Demonstration , to which the Archbishop of Vienna Theodor Cardinal Innitzer had called. After the rosary celebrations, Hermann Lein and Ferdinand Habel , Josef Kaspar , Hans Eis and Franz Ranftl were served with the protective custody order , and immediately afterwards he was arrested by the Gestapo for "inciting the people". First he was deported to Dachau concentration camp on December 10, 1938 , and from September 1939 to Mauthausen concentration camp . After 19 months, he was released on April 23, 1940.
From 1941 to 1944, Lein worked as a medic in the Wehrmacht , including in Krakow .
After the war
After the end of the Second World War , Hermann Lein studied history and German. He first worked as a teacher. From 1963 he was employed in the Federal Ministry for teaching in the arts section. In 1971 he became head of the Ministry's literature department, and in 1977 he became head of the arts department. In these functions he was u. a. responsible for organizing the awarding of the Austrian State Awards. When Thomas Bernhard was awarded the State Prize for Roman in 1968 , the " State Prize scandal ."
As an enthusiastic folk dancer, Lein was the initiator and founding member of the Federal Association of Austrian Folk Dance in 1956 .
Since 1945, Lein was a member of the ÖVP . In 2000 he left the ÖVP because it had entered into a coalition with the FPÖ .
For many years, Lein was chairman of the Dachau camp community and the Austrian Mauthausen camp community. He was a member of the Austrian Writers' Association . In 2001, Lein was awarded the Culture Medal of the City of Linz for “special commitment as a contemporary witness of Nazi crimes”.
Works
- Wilhelm Gross, Hermann Lein, Hermann Schnell : We are not silent . Austrian Federal Publishing House, 1965.
- Franz Kreuzer , Hermann Lein: A life for Austria, Franz Jonas . Verlag für Jugend und Volk, 1969.
- Hermann Lein: As Innitzer guardsman in the Dachau and Mauthausen concentration camps . A look back at the 50th anniversary. Herder, Freiburg 1989, ISBN 3-210-24933-4 .
- Hermann Lein, Michael Lemberger, Werner Routil, Gerhard Suchy: Interview with contemporary witnesses - Dr. Hermann Lein . GS-Multimedia Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-900999-02-3 (audio book).
Web links
- Literature by and about Hermann Lein in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hermann Lein reports on the rosary and his arrest on doew.at
Individual evidence
- ^ Maria Fialik : The Conservative Anarchist - Thomas Bernhard and the State Theater. Löcker Verlag, Vienna 1991, p. 210.
- ↑ Interview: Hermann Lein - “Innitzer Guard” in Dachau and Mauthausen. In: Memorial Service. Edition 3/2000.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lein, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian Catholic resistance fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 24, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 1, 2006 |
| Place of death | Vienna |