Janez Ranzinger

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Janez Ranzinger (* 1909 ; † 1997 ) was a Yugoslav glassblower , communist resistance fighter against National Socialism , prisoner in Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps , leading member of the Yugoslav resistance center and member of the illegal International Camp Committee (ILK) and member of the Slovenian Partisan Association and resistance fighters .

Life

Ranzinger completed an apprenticeship as a glassblower after his school days. He joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPJ), which organized illegally after 1921. After the invasion of the Wehrmacht , he fought against the occupation among the partisans . He was caught and transferred to the Auschwitz concentration camp. In the summer of 1943 he was sent from the Auschwitz concentration camp to Buchenwald, where he was assigned to room service. The leadership of the German communists quickly contacted him. After a short time he belonged to the inner leadership of the Yugoslav resistance group and was its secretary. As a member of the International Camp Committee, Ranzinger participated in the military preparations for a liberation uprising.

When the Nazi rule was eliminated, he went back to Slovenia and joined the Union of Communists of Yugoslavia (BdKJ). He became a member of the Slovenian Association of Partisans and Resistance Fighters.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prispevek za zgodovino repsije na Slovenskem po 2. svetovni vojni , in: Prispevki za novejšo zgodovino , vol. 52.2012, pp. 275–294, here p. 284 (footnote 38)
  2. ↑ Author collective: Buchenwald. Reminder and obligation. Documents and reports. Berlin 1983, p. 446.
  3. ↑ Author collective: Buchenwald. Reminder and obligation. Documents and reports. Berlin 1983, p. 447.
personal data
SURNAME Ranzinger, Janez
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH 1909
DATE OF DEATH 1997