Rosa Hofmann

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Rosa "Ratzi" Hofmann (born May 27, 1919 in Linz ; † March 9, 1943 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was an Austrian communist youth functionary and resistance fighter .

Life

Stumbling block for Rosa Hofmann

Hofmann grew up in Salzburg-Maxglan in a parental home close to the SPÖ and became a seamstress. In 1936 she began to get involved in an Itzlingen socialist youth group that had disguised itself as an abstinence association from the Austrofascist government . Later she became active in the KJV and in 1941 took over the management of its Salzburg group. She and her group copied leaflets for the communist Viennese resistance organization “ The Soldiers' Council ” and distributed them to members of the Wehrmacht in Salzburg .

Hofmann was arrested on April 16, 1942 and initially imprisoned in Salzburg. It was finally transferred to Berlin and before the 6th Senate of the People's Court under the chairmanship of the People's Court Councilor Robert Hartmann (assessor: Regional Court Director Dr. Lorenz, SA Brigade Leader Daniel Hauer , SA Obergruppenführer Hess and District Leader Heinrich Reinecke ) because of degradation of military strength in connection with treasonous enemy favoring and preparation for high treason . At the meeting of December 15, 1942, she was found guilty and sentenced to death . A pardon was rejected and the execution took place in the Berlin-Plötzensee prison .

Quote

“I just hope that the pardon will be successful. If not, you can't change anything, I've already resigned myself. You don't believe how many people are doing the same thing here as me. I long for you and the mountains ... "

- Rosa Hofmann : Last letter

Commemoration

Memorial plaque for Rosa Hofmann

In Salzburg, a memorial plaque on the house, a memorial in Stölzlpark, a library, a stumbling block and a street remember them.

On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Austria's liberation in May 2015, the Salzburg Concentration Camp Association demanded that the memorial for Rosa Hofmann be relocated, as it is on a kindergarten playground that is not open to the public. At the same time, the memorial was to be expanded to include those women of the political resistance who were deported to Auschwitz without a trial and murdered there: Josefine Lindorfer from Hallein, Rosa Bermoser , Maria Bumberger , Anna Frauneder , Marianne Innerberger , Anna Prähauser and Anna Reindl .

The memorial for women in the resistance was finally inaugurated on May 27, 2019 in Stölzlpark in the Maxglan district of Salzburg . The memorial stone for Rosa Hofmann was expanded to include a memorial inscription for 17 other murdered women.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willi Weinert: "I want them to always stay close to you--": Biographies of communist resistance fighters in Austria. With comments on the resistance struggle of the Communist Party of Austria and a list of victims , 2005, p. 97.
  2. ↑ Salzburg Concentration Camp Association: Making Women in Resistance Visible , accessed on April 26, 2016.
  3. ↑ Stefanie Ruep: New honor grave for murdered resistance fighters in Salzburg - derstandard.at/2000015502514/Neues-Ehrengrab-fuer-ermordete-NS-Widstandskaempfer-in-Salzburg , Der Standard , May 8, 2015, accessed on April 26, 2016
  4. ↑ Stefanie Ruep: Derstandard.at, 27 May 2019, unveils the memorial for women who resist in Salzburg .
personal data
SURNAME Hofmann, Rosa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hofmann, Ratzi (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian KJV functionary and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1943
Place of death Berlin