Max Schrems (resistance fighter)
Max Schrems , also Maximilian Schrems ( April 23, 1892 in Perchtoldsdorf - April 7, 1944 in Vienna ), was an Austrian tram guard and resistance fighter against National Socialism . He was sentenced to death by the Nazi regime and beheaded in the Vienna Regional Court .
life and work
Schrems was arrested on February 15, 1943 for making donations for the Red Aid (supporting relatives of arrested persons) and sentenced to death by the People's Court on November 27, 1943 for “preparing for high treason ” and “favoring the enemy” . From the judgment of the People's Court: “The defendants [Therese] Klostermann , Brothers Heindl [ Franz Heindl and Michael Heindl ], [Franz] Hauer , [Franz] Anderle and Schrems have tried until the end of 1942 as officials of the Communist Party to disintegrate the home front, stabbed the hard-fighting front in the back. Such deeds can only be atoned for with death. The National Socialist state would give up itself if it did not permanently exclude people who were consciously working for communism in the fourth year of the war from the German national community. "
Max Schrems was executed on April 7, 1944 by guillotine .
Commemoration
His name can be found on four memorial plaques:
- at the memorial for the Hietzingen tramers beheaded by the Nazi regime in front of the tram depot at Speisinger Strasse 188, dedicated to him, as well as the resistance fighters Emil König , Heinrich Lochner and Hedwig Urach , who were also executed by the Nazi regime ,
- on the memorial plaque in the former execution room of the Vienna Regional Court , where Schrems was killed,
- at the monument against war and fascism in the school park of Brunn am Gebirge , as well
- on the memorial plaque at the KPÖ house in Bahnstrasse 2 in Brunn am Gebirge.
In Brunn am Gebirge there is also a street named after the resistance fighter, Max Schrems-Gasse . In 1962, in his place of birth, Perchtoldsdorf, Josefigasse was renamed Schremsgasse in his honor .
In September 2012, as part of the series 16 mm - treasures from the television archive, a search for clues by Walter Pissecker about Max Schrems was broadcast on ORF III , which was created in 1977. The ORF broadcast speaks of a “cinematic monument” for the Perchtoldsdorf tram driver.
literature
- Heinz Arnberger / Claudia Kuretsidis-Haider (eds.): Commemoration and dunning in Lower Austria. Remembrance signs on resistance, persecution, exile and liberation , mandelbaum verlag 2011
- Manfred Mugrauer: Soldier of the Just Cause . On the 100th birthday of the communist resistance fighter Hedy Urach, in: Mitteilungen der Alfred Klahr Gesellschaft, vol. 17, No. 3, September 2001, pp. 9–21.
- Michael Krassnitzer: Resistance in Hietzing. The fight for freedom 1934-1938 and 1938-1945 using the example of a Viennese district . Edition Volkshochschule, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-900-799-58-X
Web links
- Alfred-Klahr-Gesellschaft , short biography of the resistance fighter, with a picture of the king, accessed on March 28, 2015
- Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance , short biography of the resistance fighter, with three pictures of Max Schrems from the identification file of the Gestapo Vienna, accessed on March 29, 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ Arnberger 354
- ↑ Documentation archive of the Austrian Resistance ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , No longer anonymous: Max Schrems, with three photos from the identification files of the Gestapo Vienna, accessed on March 29, 2015
- ↑ Anti-fascist monuments and memorials. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (publisher), accessed on March 29, 2015
- ^ Postwar Justice , accessed February 10, 2015
- ↑ ORF : TV like back then: "16mm - Treasures from the TV archive " ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 29, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schrems, Max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schrems, Maximilian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian tram guard and resistance fighter against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Perchtoldsdorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 7, 1944 |
| Place of death | Vienna |