Karl Dickbauer
The Innsbruck police inspector Karl Dickbauer (born October 26, 1891 in Adlwang , † December 16, 1976 in Zirl ) was an Austrian Righteous Among the Nations .
Dickbauer and his colleague Anton Dietz were commissioned in the summer of 1944 to prepare a transport for prisoners from the Innsbruck prison to Auschwitz . Among the 88 inmates were five Polish Jewish women - Lorraine Justmann-Wisńicki, Mirjam Fuchs, Paulina Janaszewicz, Regina Litmann-Rundbaker and Ruth Litman-Eisenberg. They were arrested by the Gestapo on March 13, 1944 , after posing as Christian-Polish foreign workers. The five girls were already scheduled for deportation to a concentration camp . They turned to the prison master, Wolfgang Neuschmidt, for help. Neuschmidt called on his superior Karl Dickbauer for the girls on the grounds that they were needed for kitchen work in prison.
In the summer of 1944, the police officer Erwin Lutz was head chef in Innsbruck prison. Together with the Innsbruck criminal police officer Rudi Moser, he decided to save the girls and persuaded his superiors to make the girls' papers disappear and to use them for work in his kitchen. Lutz provided the girls with food and treated them well.
Police inspector Dickbauer made the girls' papers disappear. They were not included in the transport to Auschwitz, remained in prison and were employed in the prison kitchen. When the despatch order arrived, Moser also helped to make the girls' papers disappear, which saved them from being transported.
When the order arrived on January 18, 1945 to transport all inmates of the prison to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp , Dickbauer was asked to help the girls escape. Dickbauer did not hesitate. The criminal investigator Rudi Moser also offered his help to save the girls. Lorraine Justman-Visnicki and Mirjam Fuchs managed to escape from prison during the night with the help of Dietz and Dickbauer. Lutz offered them his apartment as their first place of refuge.
Before the Jewish women fled, the criminal investigator Rudi Moser turned to Maria Stocker with the request to take the two girls in their apartment and hide them. Maria was aware of the danger it posed for her to hide two Jewish refugees in her apartment. Nevertheless, she immediately agreed.
The three other Jewish girls who were in Innsbruck prison were saved in a similar way.
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| SURNAME | Dickbauer, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian policeman and Righteous Among the Nations |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 26, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Adlwang |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 16, 1976 |
| Place of death | Zirl |