Karl Krumpl

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Karl Krumpl (born September 27, 1909 in Sankt Veit an der Glan , † March 22, 1945 in Vienna ) was an Austrian politician and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Karl Krumpl was born in Sankt Veit an der Glan as the son of a railway official. After high school he learned the profession of typesetter and then worked at the Carinthia printing company . In the corporate state he became a functionary of the Ostmärkische Sturmscharen and secretary of the Fatherland Front , as well as from 1934 to 1938 a member of the Carinthian professional state parliament for the profession of trade. He also sat on the Klagenfurt municipal council.

After the “Anschluss” of Austria , he was sentenced to four years in prison and released in July 1941. The remainder of the sentence was waived.

In Austria at the time of National Socialism , Krumpl and the priest Anton Granig played a leading role in the founding of the resistance group Antifascist Freedom Movement in Austria . He networked the group with resistance movements in Vienna and Slovenia . His wife Paula was also active in this group.

He joined the Wehrmacht in November 1942 and fought in the Africa campaign . In the summer of 1943 he was arrested in Tunis and taken to Vienna after the group in Carinthia was broken up. On August 11, 1944, he was sentenced to death before the People's Court under the chairmanship of Kurt Albrecht .

Krumpl was a member of the Catholic student association Nibelungia Klagenfurt , which became part of the K.Ö.St.V. after the Second World War. Babenberg Klagenfurt has risen in the MKV .

souvenir

  • Karl Krumpl is remembered on a plaque in Landhaus Klagenfurt , which was erected to commemorate six Carinthian parliamentarians who fell victim to the National Socialist dictatorship.
  • In the Weiheraum, the former execution room in the Vienna Regional Court , Karl Krumpl is listed on the memorial plaque for those killed here.
  • At his last address in Klagenfurt , a stumbling block reminds of Karl Krumpl.

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supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d People's Court : Judgments 5 H 53/44, 5 H 38/44, 5 H 60/44 and the reasons for the judgment . Vienna August 11, 1944, p. 5–6, 24 ( online on the DÖW website (PDF; 8.15 MB)).
  2. ↑ a b c Stolpersteine ​​2018. In: www.klagenfurt.at. Magistrate of the state capital Klagenfurt, August 2018, accessed on August 16, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Memorial plaque for Nazi victims in the state parliament. In: ORF . July 12, 2013, accessed August 9, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Fritz Molden : The fire in the night . Amalthea, Vienna / Munich 1988, ISBN 3-85002-262-5 , p. 74 .
  5. ^ Ralf Siebenbürger: Anton Granig - a Mölltaler farmer's son against Hitler . In: ÖVP comradeship of the politically persecuted and confessors for Austria (ed.): The freedom fighter . No. 45 . Vienna 2015, p. 2–5 ( online on the publisher's website (PDF; 890 kB)).
  6. ↑ 70 years of Babenberg, Festschrift, 1979.
  7. ↑ Memorial plaque for Nazi victims in the country house. ORF, May 8, 2014, accessed on November 9, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Place of consecration (former execution room). In: www.nachkriegsjustiz.at. Central Austrian Research Center for Post-War Justice, accessed on November 12, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Krumpl, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Sankt Veit an der Glan
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1945
Place of death Vienna