Maria Fischer (resistance fighter, 1903)
Maria Fischer , also Marie Fischer (born on September 12, 1903 in Vienna ; died on March 30, 1943 there ), was an Austrian communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism . She was sentenced to death by the Nazi judiciary and executed with the guillotine in the Vienna Regional Court .
Life
Maria Fischer worked as a subdistrict or district manager of the KPÖ in Vienna-Favoriten until the summer of 1940 . She was arrested on April 29, 1941, then interrogated by the Vienna Gestapo and sentenced to death by the People's Court on January 16, 1943 for “preparation for high treason ” and executed two and a half months later in the Vienna Regional Court.
Her husband Rudolf Fischer was executed on January 28, 1943.
Commemoration
In memory of Maria and Rudolf Fischer, a community building complex in Vienna-Favoriten was named Maria-und-Rudolf-Fischer-Hof .
Fischer's name can also be found on the plaque in the former execution room of the Vienna Regional Court . She was buried in the shaft graves of group 40 (row 29 / grave 157) of the Vienna Central Cemetery .
literature
- Werner Schubert: Favorites. From the settlement to the big city . 1st edition. Mohl, Vienna 1980, ISBN 978-3-900272-35-7 , pp. 115 f., 280 .
- 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 , p. 80, 153 .
- Erika Fischer wrote an essay about her mother as part of a school competition, published in 1948 in the prose anthology Ringende Jugend , Vienna 1948.
Web links
- No longer anonymous - photos from the ID card file of the Gestapo Vienna - Maria Fischer. In: Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance . Retrieved August 2, 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Document: Judgment of the People's Court in the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance , accessed on March 12, 2020
- ↑ Document: Death certificate in the documentation archive of the Austrian Resistance , accessed on March 16, 2020
- ↑ with Maria Fischer (resistance fighter) in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- ^ Postwar Justice , accessed July 21, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fischer, Maria |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fischer, Marie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian resistance fighter against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 12, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 30, 1943 |
| Place of death | Vienna |