Vladimír Zoul

Vladimír Karl Zoul , also Wladimir Zoul , (born November 4, 1914 in Vienna ; died May 17, 1943 there ) was an Austrian tailor's assistant and resistance fighter against National Socialism of the Czech- speaking minority. He was sentenced to death by the Nazi regime and  beheaded in the Vienna Regional Court .

Life

Zoul was a tailor's assistant and active in the communist resistance. Together with Franz Tesarik , also a tailor's assistant, he is said to have distributed educational material against the Nazi regime and also met the functionary Hedwig Urach .

He was arrested and interrogated by the Vienna Gestapo . On 16 December 1942, Vladimír Zoul from the People's Court together with four co-defendants, the goldsmith's assistant Friedrich Nesvadba , the Schneider assistant Alfons Peschke and Franz Tesarik and the seamstress Hedwig Urach, because of "the crimes committed in the wars preparation for Communist treason " to death by the guillotine sentenced . He spent almost half a year on death row in the Vienna Regional Court.

“All of the defendants worked long and extensively in the dire need of the German people in the sense of a communist decomposition of the population and worked as functionaries in the reconstruction of the KPÖ, especially in Vienna's 17th district, namely Peschke as head, Nesvadba as his representative and Successor, the Urach by maintaining the connection to the city administration, Zoul and Tesarik as cashiers and distributors. Their treasonable work did not end until 1941. It thus extends considerably into the time of the present war and for this reason appears particularly dangerous and reprehensible. The German people have started their battle of fate. The outcome of this war will be decisive for whether there will still be a German national community in the future, or even a German culture at all. Anyone who tries to undermine the unity of the German people is a traitor to the German people and must be treated as such. That is why the common sense of the people demands that the accused be given the heaviest punishment that the law allows. It is not the damage that the individual has caused that is decisive, but the success that he imagined and purposefully strived for. "

- People's Court : Justification of the five death sentences against Friedrich Nesvadba, Alfons Peschke, Franz Tesarik, Hedy Urach and Vladimír Zoul, December 16, 1942

On May 17, 1943, red posters in Vienna announced the execution of Franz Tesarik, Hedwig Urach and Vladimír Zoul.

Commemoration

His name can be found on a memorial and two memorial plaques:

• On the memorial for the victims of the resistance of the Czechoslovak minority in Vienna at the Vienna Central Cemetery ,
• on the memorial plaque for the Czech and Slovak minorities at Leibnitzgasse 10 in Vienna-Favoriten , dedicated to the "Heroes of the Czech and Slovak minorities who sacrificed their lives for the freedom of Austria and Czechoslovakia."
• on the memorial plaque in the former execution room of the Vienna Regional Court , where Zoul died, now a consecration room for the executed Nazi victims.

swell

• Manfred Mugrauer: Soldier of the Just Cause . On the 100th birthday of the communist resistance fighter Hedy Urach, in: Mitteilungen der Alfred Klahr Gesellschaft, vol. 17, No. 3, September 2001, pp. 9–21.
• 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 . Wiener Stern-Verlag 2011 (3rd verb. And extended edition), p. 277 [1]

Individual evidence

1. ^ ZPA, [Geheime Staatspolizei, Staatspolizeileitstelle Wien], II A 1, B. No. 200/41 of September 11, 1941, further negotiated, pp. 2–8; DÖW 11081, Der Oberreichsanwalt bei Volksgerichtshof, 7 J 95/42 of May 29, 1942, indictment against Alfons Peschke, Friedrich Nesvadba, Hedwig Urach, Wladimir Zoul and Franz Tesarik, pp. 13 and 15-18, excerpts from: Resistance and persecution in Vienna (see note 48), Vol. 2: 1938–1945, Doc. 143, pp. 177–180.
2. ^ The hearing took place either in Krems or in Vienna. We are working on verifying the venue.
3. ↑ Manfred Mugrauer: Soldier of the Just Cause . On the 100th birthday of the communist resistance fighter Hedy Urach, in: Mitteilungen der Alfred Klahr Gesellschaft, vol. 17, No. 3, September 2001, pp. 9–21.
4. ↑ Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Short biography of the resistance fighter Friedrich Nesvadba, accessed on July 31, 2015. 
5. ↑ Matthias Keuschnigg in: Library Association in the Regional Court for Criminal Matters Vienna (ed.): Catalog The History of the Gray House and Austrian Criminal Justice , Vienna 2012, Chapter 5, NS-Unrechtsjustiz , p. 137.
6. ↑ Eduard Kubů, Gudrun Exner: Czechs and Czech women, deprivation of property and restitution , Oldenbourg Verlag 2004, p. 143.
7. ^ Postwar Justice , accessed July 31, 2015.
8. ↑ Anti-fascist monuments and memorials. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (publisher), accessed on March 29, 2015.
9. ^ Postwar Justice , accessed August 1, 2015.