Leopold Stípčak

Leopold Stípčak (born December 10, 1909 in Siebenhirten , Vienna; died April 26, 1944 in Vienna ) was an Austrian craftsman and resistance fighter against National Socialism . He was sentenced to death by the Nazi judiciary and beheaded .

Life

The son of an army official trained as a carpenter. Politically, he was a member of the Social Democratic Workers' Party in Siebenhirten from 1929 . When this was banned in 1934, he joined the illegal Revolutionary Socialists . In autumn 1939 he was recruited by the KPÖ and worked as a conspiratorial cell leader in Vösendorf .

In September 1942 Stípčak was arrested and sentenced to death in February 1944 by the 5th Senate of the People's Court along with three other members for preparing for high treason. After two pardons were rejected, the sentence was carried out in April 1944.

Stípčak was buried in the shaft graves of group 40 (row 22 / grave 109) of the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Appreciation

Freedom fighter memorial at the Atzgersdorfer cemetery

Street sign of Stipcakgasse in Vienna

In Vienna- Liesing the Stipcakgasse was named after him.

On November 1, 1954, the freedom fighter memorial was unveiled in the Atzgersdorf cemetery , designed by the sculptor Franz Pixner . It commemorates 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 .

His name was also engraved on the plaque in the former execution room of the Vienna Regional Court .

literature

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 . 2nd Edition. Alfred Klahr Society, Vienna 2005, ISBN 978-3-9501986-0-7 .

Web link

Stipcak, Leopold . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 . 2nd revised edition (online only).

Individual evidence

↑ Anti-fascist monuments and memorials. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)
^ Post-War Justice , accessed May 30, 2015

personal data
SURNAME	Stípčak, Leopold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Stipcak, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH	December 10, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH	Siebenhirten , Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	April 26, 1944
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Anti-fascist monuments and memorials. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)

[2] Post-War Justice , accessed May 30, 2015