Leopoldine Kovarik
Leopoldine Kovarik (born February 5, 1919 in Vienna ; † November 2, 1943 there ) was an Austrian post clerk and resistance fighter against National Socialism . She was sentenced to death and executed at the age of 24.
Life
Kovarik she got involved with the Socialist Children's Friends while she was still at school , and then with the Socialist Workers' Youth . After the proclamation of the corporate state , she switched to the Communist Youth Association of Austria (KJVÖ) and was therefore arrested twice by the Austro-Fascist regime . After the annexation of Austria , Kovarik joined the KJVÖ group The Soldiers ' Council and organized the paperwork for the soldiers' work in her apartment. She was also responsible for the contact to Graz. Kovarik lived in Vienna- Favoriten and worked for the Postsparkasse .
On 13 November 1941 she was in Berlin arrested, "treasonable production and distribution to send to members of the Wehrmacht certain letters" sentenced on 27 September 1943 for the death and five weeks later in the Regional Court of Vienna by the guillotine executed.
memory
On her house at Hardtmuthgasse 106 in Vienna- Favoriten there was a plaque commemorating the resistance fighter. However, this was removed by the property management during renovation work in 1998 or before.
Her name can be found on the plaque in the former execution room of the Vienna Regional Court .
Web links
- Alfred Klahr Gesellschaft : Short biography Leopoldine Kovarik with photo, accessed on February 8, 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ DorfWiki , about the removal of the memorial plaque for Leopoldine Kovarik, accessed on February 8, 2015
- ^ Postwar Justice , accessed February 10, 2015
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kovarik, Leopoldine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian post office worker and resistance fighter against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 5, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 2, 1943 |
| Place of death | Vienna |