Karl Griesbach

Karl Griesbach (born on July 25, 1904 in Vienna ; died in 1944 or 1945 in the Börgermoor concentration camp ) was an Austrian communist and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime . He was arrested by the Vienna Gestapo for “preparation for high treason ” , interrogated and deported to the concentration camp.

Life

Karl Griesbach was arrested on December 31, 1942 for activity for the KPÖ and sentenced to three years in prison on May 7, 1943 for “preparing for high treason ”. The Gestapo Vienna justified his arrest as follows:

“From 1939 until his indentation on February 10, 1942, Griesbach took over and kept the amounts of money he had collected for the KPÖ. He was in contact with functionaries of the Communist Party Organization Wien-Meidling, took part in meetings and also held appeals and meetings in his apartment. "

- Daily report of the Gestapo Vienna No. 6, 19. – 21. 1st 1943

In 1944 he was in the Emslandlager Börgermoor in Papenburg , where he presumably also died. In 1950 he was pronounced dead.

His wife Juliane Griesbach was also arrested and was in custody from the end of 1942 until the fall of the Nazi regime.

Commemoration

A memorial and a memorial stone commemorate the resistance fighter against the Nazi regime :

Freedom Fighters Monument at Atzgersdorfer Friedhof , erected in 1954

• On November 1, 1954, the freedom fighter memorial was unveiled in the Atzgersdorf cemetery , designed by the sculptor Franz Pixner . It is reminiscent of a total of 24 resistance fighters who lost their lives to Austrofascism and the Nazi regime : Anton Bergauer , Leo Dworschak , Hans Fröhlich , Karl Griesbach, Franz Hauer , Franz and Michael Heindl , Leopold Hofmann , Therese Klostermann , Richard Lehmann , Rudolf Mekiska , Viktor Mrnustik , Heinrich Müller , Josef Müller , Leopold Müller , Josef Nagl , Johann Sauer , Karl Schafhauser , Fritz Seiler , Max Spanner , Leopold Stípčak , Richard Suchy , Johann Teufel and Josef Willinger .
• As part of the memorial event on the occasion of the anniversary of the November pogroms in 1938, the Stones of Remembrance Initiative in Liesing laid a memorial stone for Karl Griesbach in front of his last house on Tagliebergasse 11 in Vienna- Atzgersdorf in November 2014 .

His name can also be found in the Liesinger Victims of National Socialism 1938 - 1945 list of the Stones of Remembrance Initiative in Liesing .

Sources and literature

• Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance : no longer anonymous , with three photos from the identification file of the Gestapo Vienna, accessed on June 6, 2015
• Erich Fein: The stones speak: Memorials of the Austrian struggle for freedom, memorials f. the victims of fascism: a documentation , Europaverlag 1975, 110
• Willi Weinert: “You can put me out, but not the fire”: a guide through the grove of honor of Group 40 at the Vienna Central Cemetery for the executed resistance fighters . Verlag Alfred-Klahr-Ges., 2005

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance : Record of names of victims of political persecution in Austria 1938–1945 , accessed on June 6, 2015
2. ↑ Anti-fascist monuments and memorials. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (publisher), accessed on June 6, 2015
3. ↑ Wohnpark Alt-Erlaa Zeitung : Stones of Remembrance ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 6, 2015
4. ↑ Liesingen Victims of National Socialism 1938 - 1945 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 6, 2015