Johann Hatlak

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Johann Hatlak (born November 9, 1904 in Vienna , † March 9, 1944 in Halle (Saale) ) was an Austrian metal caster and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime .

Life

Together with Johann Haberhanns and Johann Besenkopf, he founded the communist cell company Zimmermann . Hatlak helped the parachutist Hugo Willi Börner (born April 27, 1909, decorative painter), who had been deposed from the Soviet Union . He was arrested by the Gestapo on August 3, 1942 for " high treason and treason " and recorded by the police and sentenced to death by the Reich Court Martial on October 26, 1943 . The sentence was carried out on March 9, 1944 in Halle ad Saale prison. According to other sources, he was executed in Torgau on April 14, 1944.

swell

  • Identification card index of the Gestapo Vienna , prepared by the DÖW , with photos, accessed on February 10, 2015
  • Wolfgang Neugebauer : Resistance and Persecution in Vienna, 1934-1945. A documentation. Volume 1, Österreichischer Bundesverlag, 1984 p. 400 u. 454 [1] .
  • Herbert Steiner: Died for Austria. Löcker, 1995, p. 138 [2] .
  • Hermann Mitteräcker: fight and sacrifice for Austria. A contribution to the history of the Austrian resistance 1938 to 1945. Stern Verlag, 1963, p. 83, p. 172/173 [3] .
personal data
SURNAME Hatlak, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian metal caster and resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1944
Place of death Halle (Saale)