Isidor Wozniczak

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Portrait of Isidor Wozniczak on the memorial stone

Isidor Wozniczak (born March 1, 1892 in Vienna ; † May 2, 1945 in Mödring ) was an Austrian hotelier and social democratic resistance fighter who was murdered by the National Socialists shortly before the end of World War II .

life and work

Between 1906 and 1909, Isidor Wozniczak completed his training as a tool and orthopedic mechanic as part of an apprenticeship as a mechanic . In 1910 he worked as a social democratic shop steward, in 1915 he was drafted into military service during the First World War . In the spring of 1920 Wozniczak married Gisela Laferl , who had been a social democratic councilor in Vienna since 1919. The best man was the Vice Mayor of Vienna, Georg Emmerling . In the same year, the couple moved to Kamegg , where Isidor Wozniczak performed numerous political functions: Among other things, he was the main shop steward and head of the working group of the social democratic organization Gars-Thunau and - until the Social Democratic Party was banned in 1934 - a local councilor in Kamegg.

Aryan summer freshness . Advertisement by the municipality of Gars from June 19, 1938.

In 1935 the Wozniczak family bought the forest pension in Gars. After the "Anschluss" of Austria and the associated proclamation of the Aryan summer resort , the Wozniczak family came into the sights of the National Socialists because of their social democratic convictions and their social democratic and Jewish circle of friends and guests, because the Waldpension continued to accommodate Jewish guests despite the official ban allowed access to their own bathing area on the Kamp, which was therefore terminated by the municipality of Gars. As a result, Wozniczak was repeatedly arrested, detained, released and conscripted. After Wozniczak was imprisoned in Vienna between autumn 1944 and spring 1945, he returned to Gars at the beginning of April 1945, where he was taken into protective custody on April 24, 1945 and taken to the Horn prison. He was then taken over by Volkssturm men on May 2, 1945 , shot in Mödring and his body buried. After a year-long search, his grave was discovered on August 24, 1946, his body exhumed on September 6, 1946 and buried on September 15, 1946 with great public sympathy in Wozniczak's home community of Gars am Kamp .

Wozniczak's younger son Gregor was killed in Stalingrad in 1943 , his older son Walter in 1947 as a Soviet prisoner of war. Wozniczak's wife Gisela and their daughter Mathilde ran the Waldpension from 1949.

Honors

Memorial stone on the road from Mödring to Staningersdorf

literature

  • Alois Mück: Isidor Wozniczak . In: Garser Kulturbriefe , No. 1. 1988. p. 4f.
  • Thomas Winkelbauer: Resistance in the Waldviertel 1938 to 1945. Using the example of Julius Scheidl (Germanns) and Isidor Wozniczak (Gars) . In: Friedrich Polleroß (Ed.): 1938 before - after. Contributions to the history of the Waldviertel . Pp. 51-70 and pp. 61-70.
  • Erich Rabl: The Horn district. Sutton, Erfurt 2013, ISBN 978-3-95400-172-9 , p. 44 ( online ; short biography and photo).
  • Anton Mück: From memorial to memorial. Commemorative writing on the 65th anniversary of the death of the freedom fighter Isidor Wozniczak . Horn 2010.
  • Andreas Weigel : Stars in Gars. Create and enjoy. Richly illustrated history of the summer resort Gars-Thunau from its beginnings to the present. In: Stars in Gars. Create and enjoy. Artists in the summer. Published by the Museumsverein Gars, Zeitbrücke-Museum Gars (Gars 2017) p. 9–174, here “Pension Lindner” becomes “Waldpension” (p. 107ff.), “Arische Sommerfrische” (111f.) And “Braune Wolkenkuckucksheime” (p . 120-123).

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personal data
SURNAME Wozniczak, Isidore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian hotelier and social democratic resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1945
Place of death Mödring