Richard Lehmann (February fighter)
Richard Lehmann (born September 7, 1911 ; died July 15, 1934 in Kaltenleutzüge ) was an Austrian worker and resistance fighter against Austrofascism . He was one of the February fighters and was shot on the Predigtstuhlwiese during a rally.
Life and honor
Lehmann was first active with the Red Falcons , then with the Socialist Youth Workers and the military athletes . After the social democracy was banned in the corporate state , he joined the Revolutionary Socialists of Austria . On July 15, 1934, there was an unauthorized socialist rally on the Predigtstuhlwiese to commemorate the fire in the Justice Palace seven years earlier. During a speech by Rosa Jochmann , fascist protection corps men and gendarmes emerged from the forest with their rifles at the ready. Lehmann raised the red flag, a shot went off and he fell to the ground, fatally hit. His friend Johann Fröhlich from Liesing wanted to raise the flag and was also shot. A third young Liesinger, Karl Reitmayer , was seriously injured by a grazing shot in the neck and bayonet stabs and was taken to the Mödling hospital. He survived. At the time of his death, Lehmann had already been unemployed for a year and a half.
He was buried in the Atzgersdorfer Friedhof (group 66A, number 38).
Commemoration
Lehmann's name is engraved on a memorial for the Liesingen freedom fighters against Austrofascism and the Nazi regime at the Atzgersdorfer Friedhof . On February 1, 1949, the Vienna City Council Committee for Culture decided to rename Rodaunergasse in Vienna XXIII to Lehmanngasse in memory of Richard Lehmann. On October 2, 2004, the freedom fighters from Liesing and Mödling placed a memorial stone for Johann Fröhlich and Richard Lehmann near the crime scene.
Web links
- Richard Lehmann. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)
- Lehmanngasse in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- Josef Fiala: The February battles in Vienna in 1934 Meidling and Liesing: A civil war that wasn't , Diplomica Verlag 2012, 161ff
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lehmann, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian resistance fighter, shot by the Dollfuss regime |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1911 |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 15, 1934 |
| Place of death | Give cold people |