Max Bär (resistance fighter)

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Max Bär (born December 20, 1903 in Miesbach , † February 24, 1944 in Munich ) was a resistance fighter against National Socialism in Schwaz .

Life

Bär was the son of a miner and after finishing elementary school he also worked in a mine in Bavaria . He then moved to Schwaz and was trained as a painter's assistant.

In 1934 he became a member of the banned Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ). In 1936 he took part in a communist training course in Prague . In 1941 and 1942 in particular, Bär organized a rather loosely held together, illegal communist group in Schwaz. His focus was on the political education of the values ​​of the members of his group. Bär wrote training letters for the group and they listened to the news of the German-language Radio Moscow together . Another focus was on setting up an aid network within the framework of the Red Aid . Bär helped the family of a deserter and Soviet prisoners of war in Jenbach .

Bear went into hiding with relatives and was denounced by them because they feared persecution. Bär was arrested on January 22, 1943 and charged with five others at the Schwaz People's Court. At the hearing on November 29 and 30, 1943, Bär was sentenced to the death penalty; the other five defendants received prison terms of between six and 15 years.

He was executed on February 24, 1944 in the correctional facility in Munich .

Appreciation

Memorial plaque for Max Bär in Schwaz

Max Bär is commemorated with a plaque at the old cemetery of the Schwaz parish church.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government (ed.): The people who died for Austria's freedom. The Liberation Monument and Memory. An intervention . Innsbruck 2011, p. 57 .
  2. ^ Gerhard Oberkofler: The Tyrolean workers' movement. From the beginning to the end of the 2nd World War . Europa Verlag, Vienna 1986, p. 261 .
  3. ↑ a b Radomír Luža: The Resistance in Austria 1938–1945 . Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1985, p. 174 .
  4. ↑ Memorial sites of National Socialism in Innsbruck and Seefeld. Retrieved March 20, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Resistance to National Socialism: Schwaz wants to “honor” the place. In: Tyrolean daily newspaper . July 19, 2015, accessed March 5, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Bear, max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Miesbach
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1944
Place of death Munich