Rudolf Haider

Rudolf Haider (born July 26, 1896 in Vienna ; died June 21, 1944 there ) was an Austrian journeyman bricklayer , firefighter and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime . He was sentenced to death by the Nazi judiciary and executed in the Vienna Regional Court .

life and work

Haider worked for the Vienna fire police and belonged to a communist resistance group. During a show trial before the Supreme SS and Police Court of a group of 47 firefighters in the resistance from March 13 to 25, 1944, during which his colleague Josef Schwaiger committed suicide by hanging in his cell, Haider became one sentenced to death in separate proceedings.

Rudolf Haider was executed with the guillotine .

Commemoration

Memorial stone at the central fire station Am Hof, Vienna Inner City

Since 1947, the memorial for the firefighters murdered by fascism at the Vienna fire station Am Hof ​​has been commemorating the resistance fighter against Austrofascism Georg Weissel and five victims of the Nazi justice system , the communists Ludwig Ebhart , Rudolf Haider, Hermann Plackholm , Josef Schwaiger and Johann Zak . The memorial was designed by Mario Petrucci and shows a decapitated firefighter with his head in his right arm.

Haider's name can also be found on the plaque in the former execution room of the Vienna Regional Court . He is buried in the shaft graves of group 40 (row 21 / grave 218) of the Vienna Central Cemetery .

literature

• Wolfgang Neugebauer: Resistance and Persecution in Vienna 1934–1945 . tape 1 . Österreichischer Bundesverlag for teaching science and art, Vienna 1984, p. 199 f .
• Willi Weinert: "You can put me out, but not the fire": Wiener Zentralfriedhof - Group 40. A guide through the grove of honor for the executed resistance fighters . 3. Edition. Wiener Stern-Verlag, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-9502478-2-4 , pp. 25, 128, 150, 162, 164, 174, 213, 267, 270 .

proof

1. ^ Postwar Justice , accessed March 15, 2015