Rudolf Mekiska
Rudolf Mekiska (born on July 24, 1904 in Vienna ; died on March 1, 1945 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp ) was an Austrian chauffeur and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime . Together with his wife and later his sister-in-law, he was arrested by the Vienna Gestapo , interrogated and deported to the concentration camp. Mekiska and his sister-in-law died in the concentration camp.
Life
Rosa and Rudolf Mekiska hosted a parachutist. Both were identified by the Gestapo Vienna on January 4, 1944 . Rudolf Mekiska was then imprisoned in the Flossenbürg and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. He died on March 1, 1945 in Bergen-Belsen.
His wife Rosa Mekiska (born on August 21, 1898) was transferred to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in June 1944 and remained there until the end of April 1945. Her sister, the kitchen assistant Margarethe Snitily (May 21, 1902 - October 17, 1944), was arrested a week later, also interrogated and deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp, where she was killed in October of the same year.
The allegations against the Mekiskas and Snitily were of favoring the enemy , namely supporting parachutists who were deposed by the Soviet Union .
Commemoration
- On November 1, 1954, the freedom fighter memorial was unveiled in the Atzgersdorf cemetery , designed by the sculptor Franz Pixner . It commemorates a total of 24 resistance fighters who lost their lives to Austrofascism and the Nazi regime : Anton Bergauer , Leo Dworschak , Hans Fröhlich , Karl Griesbach , Franz Hauer , Franz and Michael Heindl , Leopold Hofmann , Therese Klostermann , Richard Lehmann , Rudolf Mekiska, Viktor Mrnustik , Heinrich Müller , Josef Müller , Leopold Müller , Josef Nagl , Johann Sauer , Karl Schafhauser , Fritz Seiler , Max Spanner , Leopold Stípčak , Richard Suchy , Johann Teufel and Josef Willinger .
Sources and literature
- Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance : no longer anonymous , with three photos from the identification file of the Gestapo Vienna, accessed on June 6, 2015
- Erich Fein: The stones speak: Memorials of the Austrian struggle for freedom, memorials f. the victims of fascism: a documentation , Europaverlag 1975, 110
- Willi Weinert: “You can put me out, but not the fire”: a guide through the grove of honor of Group 40 at the Vienna Central Cemetery for the executed resistance fighters . Verlag Alfred-Klahr-Ges., 2005
Individual evidence
- ↑ Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance : no longer anonymous ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , with three photos from the Gestapo Vienna ID card, accessed on June 6, 2015
- ↑ Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance : No longer anonymous ( 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. , with three photos from the Gestapo Vienna ID card, accessed on June 6, 2015
- ↑ Anti-fascist monuments and memorials. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (publisher), accessed on June 6, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mekiska, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian chauffeur and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 24, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 1, 1945 |
| Place of death | Bergen-Belsen concentration camp |