Rudolf Fischer (resistance fighter)
Rudolf Fischer (born December 5, 1905 in Vienna ; † January 28, 1943 there ) was an Austrian resistance fighter against National Socialism .
Life
Fischer, a laborer, was in the era of National Socialism under the code name seal member of the illegal people in the underground KPÖ involved and in the formation of a city line of the CPA in Vienna. He recruited new employees, organized the production and distribution of communist pamphlets and periodicals, and looked after imprisoned communists.
After the Gestapo had largely infiltrated the KPÖ, he was arrested on April 29, 1941, together with his wife, Maria , in his apartment at Laxenburger Str. 98 in Vienna's 10th district, on November 2, 1942 for "preparing for high treason " sentenced to death and on 28 January 1943 at the Vienna Regional court I on the guillotine executed .
His wife, with whom he had a daughter Erika (* 1930), was also executed a few weeks later.
Memorials
- Inscription on Maria-und-Rudolf-Fischer-Hof in Vienna, residential complex, Laxenburger Str. 98.
- Memorial stone on the memorial group 40 for those executed in the regional court, Zentralfriedhof Vienna .
- Memorial plaque in the former execution room , Regional Court for Criminal Matters, Vienna , Landesgerichtsstrasse 11.
- Quote from his farewell letter with a plaque in several languages on the Monumento alla Resistenza europea in Como.
literature
- Andrea Hurton: From pogrom to resistance , Walter Felix Suess (1912–1943), musician - doctor - Gestapo victim, Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2020; Documentation with information on Fischer, researched for Gestapo files.
- Lisl Rizy, Willi Weinert, editors: My head won't save you either , correspondence of Austrian resistance fighters from prison, 4 volumes, Vienna 2016, Wiener Stern-Verlag; contains Fischer's family correspondence.
- Willi Weinert: You can put out me, but not the fire , biographies of the resistance fighters against the Nazi regime executed in the Vienna Regional Court, A Guide through Group 40 at the Vienna Central Cemetery, 2nd edition, Vienna 2005, Verlag Alfred Klahr Gesellschaft, from 2011 Wiener Stern-Verlag, pages 9, 34, 36, 58, 60.
Web links
- Marie Fischer, death sentence of the People's Court , contains biographical information about her husband, on the website Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance .
- Photos of the identification service treatment on the website Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance .
- Farewell letters to family members with further references to sources and literature on the website Association for memories with memories of the daughter Erika.
Individual evidence
- ↑ In November 1940 the dentist Walter Felix Suess met a KPÖ functionary with the code name "Siegel" through a "black-haired man" (code name "Leo Gröbner" or "Gruber"). This also appeared under the code name "Hilgert". Suess later learned that it was the top communist functionary Rudolf Fischer ... ... quoted from Andrea Hurton p. 32, see literature.
- ↑ Document: Death certificate in the documentation archive of the Austrian Resistance , accessed on March 16, 2020
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fischer, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian resistance fighter against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 5, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 28, 1943 |
| Place of death | Vienna |