Rudolf Raschke

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Monument in Floridsdorf

Rudolf Raschke (born June 21, 1923 in Penk ; † April 8, 1945 in Vienna ) was a first lieutenant in the German Wehrmacht and a member of the military resistance against National Socialism .

Life

Biedermann-Huth-Raschke barracks in Vienna-Penzing

Raschke was born the son of a Bleiburg railway official. From 1937 to 1939 he attended the commercial academy in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee and then the Reich Finance School in Leitmeritz . In 1940 he passed the high school diploma. He was a member of the Hitler Youth and volunteered as a gunner in the German armed forces in 1940 . In 1941 he was promoted to Fahnenjunker . During the Second World War he took part in the Balkan campaign in Greece and later in the Russian campaign. In 1942 he was promoted to lieutenant d. R. promoted and was temporarily in the General Command of the XVII. Army corps active in Vienna. In 1944 he was accepted as an active officer in the Wehrmacht and volunteered for the Western Front . In early 1945 he was promoted to first lieutenant . From February 8, 1945 he was assigned to the General Command in Vienna. There he joined with Karl Biedermann and Alfred Huth of the resistance group of Austrian members of the Wehrmacht, led by Major Carl Szokoll , within the military district command XVII . In the spring of 1945 they planned the “ Operation Radetzky ”, the aim of which was to support the Red Army in the liberation of Vienna and to prevent major destruction. But the "Operation Radetzky" planned for April 6th was betrayed.

On April 6, 1945, Raschke was arrested in the building of the Vienna Military District Command XVII at Universitätsstrasse 7, but acquitted together with Alfred Huth in the subsequent trial court hearing against Karl Biedermann. However, on the instructions of the Reich Defense Commissioner Colonel General of the Waffen SS, Sepp Dietrich , Raschke and Huth were brought before an SS and police court and sentenced to death on April 8, 1945 .

On the same day, Raschke was publicly hanged at Floridsdorfer Spitz in Vienna along with two other members of the military resistance, Major Karl Biedermann and Captain Alfred Huth . The Viennese chief of the security police and SD Rudolf Mildner personally assumed command at the place of execution. The execution was carried out by Viennese Gestapo officials under the command of SS-Obersturmführer Franz Kleedorfer (* 1908).

Raschke was buried on August 2, 1945 - together with Karl Biedermann and Alfred Huth - in Vienna at the Hietzingen cemetery in an honorary grave (group 66, row 19, number 5).

Honors

In 1967 the Kleine Breitenseer Kaserne in Vienna-Penzing was named after Biedermann and his two colleagues Alfred Huth and Rudolf Raschke in "Biedermann-Huth-Raschke-Kaserne". In 1992, in the 21st district of Vienna Floridsdorf the Rudolf Raschke alley named after him.

Web links

literature

  • Carl Szokoll: The rescue of Vienna in 1945. My life, my part in the conspiracy against Hitler and in the liberation of Austria. Amalthea-Verlag, Vienna 2001 ISBN 3-85002-472-5 .
  • Michael Krassnitzer: Resistance in Hietzing. The fight for freedom 1934–1938 and 1938–1945 using the example of a Viennese district . Edition Volkshochschule, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-900799-58-X .
  • Christoph Tepperberg :  Raschke, Rudolf. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 426.
  • Friedrich Vogl: Resistance in a tunic. Austrian freedom fighters in the German Wehrmacht 1938–1945. Vienna: Europaverl. 1977 (materials on the labor movement, 7), p. 67 ff.
  • Otto Molden: The call of conscience. the Austrian struggle for freedom 1938–1945. Contributions to the history of the Austrian resistance movement. Vienna [u. a.]: Herold 1958, register
  • Peter Schubert: The Austrian scene. Topographic lexicon on contemporary history in three volumes. Volume 1: Vienna. Hollinek 1976, register

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Raschke in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  2. ↑ Thomas Mang: 'Gestapo Headquarters Vienna - My name is Huber'. Who was locally responsible for the murder of the Jews of Vienna ?, Vienna 2003, p. 131, ISBN 3-8258-7259-9 .
  3. ^ SS-Obersturmführer and Criminal Secretary of the Gestapo Vienna Franz Kleedorfer.
  4. ^ Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance.
  5. ^ Rudolf-Raschke-Gasse in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
personal data
SURNAME Raschke, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian officer and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Penk, part of the municipality of Feistritz ob Bleiburg
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1945
Place of death Vienna , Austria