Ludwig Vesely (resistance fighter)
Ludwig Vesely , called Vickerl Vesely , (* July 5, 1919 in Vienna ; † December 30, 1944 in Auschwitz ) was an Austrian resistance fighter against National Socialism , a communist and belonged to the conspiratorial camp resistance in Auschwitz.
Life
Vesely, a precision mechanic by trade, had been a member of the social democratic Rote Falken since 1932 and of the Communist Youth Association since summer 1934 . On November 15, 1938, he was arrested by the Gestapo in Vienna and sentenced on August 28, 1941 by the Vienna Higher Regional Court to two years and six months in prison for communist activities . Vesely was initially admitted to the Dachau concentration camp and, after imprisonment in the Vienna Regional Court, the Stein an der Donau prison and the Rossauer Lände police prison, on June 2, 1942, in the main camp of Auschwitz transferred (prisoner no. 38.169).
Vesely was a prisoner functionary and initially belonged to the Austrian resistance group established in 1942 in the main camp. Other members of the resistance group were Alfred Klahr , Hermann Langbein , Ludwig Soswinski , Ernst Burger and Rudolf Friemel . In May 1943, the Auschwitz combat group emerged from the Austrian resistance group and the Polish camp resistance . On December 30, 1944, Vesely was hanged together with Burger and Friemel as well as two Polish prisoners on the roll call area of the main camp in front of the 15,000 prisoners who had tried to “escape” .
In Vienna 3 , Grasbergergasse 9 (Wildganshof) a plaque commemorates Ludwig Vesely today.
literature
- Hermann Langbein: People in Auschwitz. Vienna, Munich: Europaverlag 1995, ISBN 3-203-51215-7 .
- Hermann Langbein: The stronger ones. A report. Vienna: Stern-Verlag 1949, DNB 574554459 (new edition: The Strongers. A report from Auschwitz and other concentration camps. Vienna: Ephelant-Verlag 2008, ISBN 978-3-900766-22-1 ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Manfred Mugrauer: Ernst Burger (1915–1944). Functional of the Communist Youth Association and leading member of the "Kampfgruppe Auschwitz" , in: Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance (ed.): Feindbilder, Yearbook 2015, Vienna 2015, p. 220f.
- ^ Hermann Langbein: Menschen in Auschwitz , 1995, pp. 397–399; ders .: Die Stronger , 2008, p. 280f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vesely, Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian resistance fighter, communist and concentration camp prisoner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 5, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 30, 1944 |
| Place of death | Auschwitz concentration camp |