Therese Klostermann
Therese Klostermann (born on July 11, 1913 in Vienna ; died on March 13, 1944 there ) was an Austrian worker and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime . On November 27, 1943, she and five other resistance fighters were sentenced to death by the Nazi judiciary and executed three and a half months later in the Vienna Regional Court with the guillotine .
Life
Klostermann was a worker, belonged to the Communist Party of Austria and collected donations to support relatives of politically imprisoned people. She was arrested and interrogated by the Vienna Gestapo , and finally sentenced to death by the People's Court on November 27, 1943 - together with Comrades Franz Anderle , Franz Hauer , brothers Franz and Michael Heindl , and Max Schrems . The indictment had been "preparation for high treason ". The judgment can be seen:
“The defendants Klostermann, the Heindl brothers, Franz Hauer, Anderle and Schrems fell in the back of the hard-fighting front because they tried to destroy the home front as officials of the Communist Party until the end of 1942. Such deeds can only be atoned for with death. The National Socialist state would give up itself if it did not permanently exclude people who were consciously working for communism in the fourth year of the war from the German national community. "
Therese Klostermann was beheaded on March 13, 1944 - together with Anderle, Hauer, the Heindl brothers and eleven other victims of National Socialism - in the Vienna Regional Court . The co-defendant Max Schrems was only executed on April 7, 1944.
Commemoration
Two monuments , a memorial plaque, a memorial stone and a street named after her, Klostermanngasse in Vienna-Liesing , commemorate the resistance fighter against the Nazi regime:
- At an unknown point in time after 1945, the resistance fighter was erected a memorial at Anton Heger Platz in Vienna-Liesing. Her first name is listed on this monument as Theresia , who designed the stone is not known.
- On December 7, 1955, the former Rittergasse was named after Therese Klostermann by resolution of the municipal council committee for culture.
- 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 .
- Her name can also be found on the memorial plaque in the former execution room of the Vienna Regional Court .
- Before her last place of residence at Carlbergergasse 39 in the Liesing district of Atzgersdorf , a memorial stone was laid by the Stones of Remembrance Initiative in Liesing , her name can also be found in the list of Liesinger victims of National Socialism 1938-1945 .
The resistance fighter was buried in the shaft graves of group 40 (row 24 / grave 203) of the Vienna Central Cemetery . The Heindl brothers are buried in grave 204 right next to her.
Sources and literature
- Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna . Vienna: Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau 1992–2004
- Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance : no longer anonymous , with three photos from the identification file of the Gestapo Vienna, accessed on May 30, 2015
- Willi Weinert: "You can put me out, but not the fire" . Guide through the grove of honor of Group 40 at the Vienna Central Cemetery for the executed resistance fighters. Vienna: Verlag Alfred-Klahr-Gesellschaft 2005
Individual evidence
- ↑ wien.at : Klostermann Theresia (+ March 13, 1944), resistance fighter - memorial, work of art in public space , accessed on June 18, 2015
- ^ Klostermanngasse in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- ^ Peter Autengruber : Lexicon of Viennese street names. Meaning, origin, background information, previous designation (s). Vienna Pichler-Verlag, 9th edition 2014
- ^ Post-War Justice , accessed May 30, 2015
- ↑ Liesingen Victims of National Socialism 1938–1945 , accessed on September 11, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klostermann, Therese |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian worker and resistance fighter against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 11, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 13, 1944 |
| Place of death | Vienna |