Viktoria Hösl

Viktoria Hösl (born June 2, 1902 in Munich ; † May 9, 1953 there ) was a Bavarian politician ( KPD ) and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Viktoria Hösl grew up with foster parents in Kirchenthumbach . After elementary school she first worked as a domestic help and from 1923, when her son Herbert was born, as a factory worker in Munich. There she became a member and functionary of the KPD and works council at the tobacco company Austria . In April 1932 she was elected for the KPD in the Bavarian state parliament, to which she belonged until the National Socialists came to power the following year. In the state parliament she was a member of the committee for petitions and complaints.

She was arrested on March 10, 1933 and held for three years in the Munich-Stadelheim prison . In 1936 she was deported to the Moringen concentration camp . After her release in 1937, she was under police supervision. Nevertheless, in 1939 she joined the resistance group around Josef Römer , who from 1940 worked together with the Berlin groups of the Red Orchestra .

Viktoria Hösl was arrested again on March 14, 1942 and sentenced to three years in prison on June 20, 1944 . After being freed from prison, she married Josef Angerer and was active again for the KPD.

literature

• Hösl, Viktoria . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
• Hartmut Mehringer : The KPD in Bavaria 1919-1945. Prehistory, Persecution, and Resistance. In: Martin Broszat / Hartmut Mehringer (ed.): Bavaria in the Nazi era. Volume V: The parties KPD, SPD, BVP in persecution and resistance , Munich / Vienna 1983

Web links

• Study group resistance Note 13 to Viktoria Hösl
• Viktoria Hösl in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History