Johann Mithlinger

Memorial plaque in the Johann Mithlinger settlement

Johann Mithlinger (born July 31, 1898 , † June 7, 1944 in Vienna ) was an Austrian resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Mithlinger worked as a commercial clerk at Brown Boveri in Vienna and was one of the leaders of the illegal activities in the workers' settlement of Rasenstadt in the Vienna district of Favoriten during the Nazi era . Who in 1934 for participating in the Mithlinger February revolt arrested and finally because of pressing for the Social Democratic Party had been punished with arrest, was in 1942 at his workplace by the Gestapo arrested and one year prison sentenced. After his release, he continued his political activities. When Mithlinger was arrested again on December 16, 1942, he was sentenced to death on September 29, 1943 by the Berlin People's Court for “preparing for high treason ” and for “ disrupting the Wehrmacht ”. On June 7, 1944, he was beheaded in the Vienna Regional Court .

Immediately after the end of the war, on August 4, 1945, the urban residential complex of Rasenstadt was renamed Johann Mithlinger Siedlung as the first memorial for victims of the Austrian resistance to the Nazi regime . Mayor Theodor Körner unveiled a memorial plaque at the entrance to the settlement commemorating Mithlinger and twelve other residents, who were also victims of the Nazi regime.

His grave is in the Matzleinsdorf Evangelical Cemetery .

Web links

• Homepage of the Miethlingersiedlung (Rasenstadt)
• Johann Mithlinger. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)
• Commemoration and reminders in Vienna. ( Memento from February 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance
• Honor a freedom fighter . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna August 7, 1945, p. 3 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).