Josef Lengauer (resistance fighter)

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Josef Lengauer ( December 30, 1902 - January 7, 1943 in Vienna ) was an Austrian tram driver who was sentenced to death and beheaded by the Nazi judiciary .

Life

Lengauer was a tram operator and worked in the main workshop on Siebeneichengasse on the Viennese tramway . He worked as a resistance fighter. There is no further information about the occasion and time of his arrest, as well as about the procedure and the death sentence. However, it is established based on various sources, that it was a political decision and that the execution of Josef Lengauer on January 7, 1943 at the Vienna Regional Court by the guillotine took place.

His body was buried in the shaft grave complex at the Vienna Central Cemetery in Group 40 Row 30 Grave 1, after the fall of the Nazi regime a tombstone was erected and the inscription Sacrifice for Austria's Freedom was added.

Commemoration

On November 24, 1947, Vice Mayor Karl Honay unveiled a marble plaque for the tram drivers and victims of Nazi justice Josef Lengauer and Franz Mager in the main tram workshop in Siebeneichengasse .

His name can also be found on the plaque in the former execution room of the Vienna Regional Court .

literature

  • Wolfgang Neugebauer: Resistance and Persecution in Vienna 1934-1945 . tape 2 . Austrian Federal Publishing House for Science and Art Education, Vienna 1984.
  • Willi Weinert: "You can put me out, but not the fire": Wiener Zentralfriedhof - Group 40. A guide through the grove of honor for the executed resistance fighters . 3. Edition. Alfred Klahr Society, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-9502478-2-4 .
  • Erich Fein: The stones speak. Memorials of the Austrian struggle for freedom; Memorials for the victims of fascism; A documentation . Europaverlag, Vienna 1975, ISBN 978-3-203-50497-1 .

Web links

proof

  1. ↑ Félix Kreissler: La prize de conscience de la nation autrichienne: 1938, 1945, 1978, Volume 1 , Publication Univ. Rouen Havre 1980, 376
  2. ↑ Der Neue Mahnruf , J. 65, N. 11-12, p. 8
  3. ^ Friedhöfe Wien: Friedhöfe Wien , accessed on July 5, 2015
  4. ↑ Consecration site at the Vienna Regional Court , accessed on March 14, 2015
  5. ↑ Willi Weinert: "You can put me out, but not the fire": Wiener Zentralfriedhof - Group 40. A guide through the grove of honor for the executed resistance fighters . 3. Edition. Alfred Klahr Society, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-9502478-2-4 .
  6. ^ City hall correspondence , accessed on July 5, 2015
  7. ^ Postwar Justice , accessed July 5, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Lengauer, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian tram driver and resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1902
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1943
Place of death Vienna