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'''Ernestine Diwisch''' (23 March 1921 - 24 May 1944) was an [[Austria|Austrian]] political activist ([[Communist Party of Austria|KPÖ]]). After [[Anschluss|1938]] she became caught up in [[German resistance to Nazism|anti-government resistance]]. She was arrested and taken to Berlin where she faced the [[People's Court (Germany)|special People's Court]]. She was convicted and sentenced to death on 8 February 1944. She was taken back to [[Vienna]] and executed on the guillotine that had been installed at [[:de:Landesgericht für Strafsachen Wien|the city's district court complex]] shortly after the [[Nazi Germany |German National Socialists]] had [[Anschluss |taken control]] of Austria.<ref name=EDlautKN></ref><ref name=EDlautErinnerung></ref><ref name=Fallbeil></ref>
==Biography==
Ernestine "Erna" Diwisch was born in [[Vienna]], the daughter of Anna Diwisch (born Anna Jezek) and a railway clerk. After completing her compulsory schooling she briefly attended a "Hausfrauenschule" (''literally, "House wives school"''). In May 1941 she took an office job at the Vienna office of the [[Allianz| Allianz insurance company]]. Later she took a job with the [[:de:Wiener Neustädter Flugzeugwerke| aircraft engine plant]] in [[Wiener-Neustadt]], to the south of Vienna.<ref name=EDlautKN/>
As a child, between 1932 and 1934 she was a member of the [[:de:Rote Falken|Red Falcons (''Rote Falken'')]], a nationwide social-democratic youth organisation with a focus on excursions and camping holidays. The Red Falcons had been set up in 1925 by [[:de:Anton Tesarek|Anton Tesarek]] who believed that the teenage children of the proletariat should be encouraged to get plenty of fresh air and to develop a sense of direction for their lives.<ref name=ATlautRFOe></ref> During 1934 a series of events took place which transformed Austria into a [[Austrofascism|one-party dictatorship]] which is how the Red Falcons came to be banned that year. [[Second World War|War]] [[Invasion of Poland|resumed]] in 1939 and in 1940 Erna Diwisch began to work in her spare time for the (also illegal) [[Communist Youth of Austria|Young Communists]]. She belonged to the "Soldiers Soviet Group" (''"Gruppe Soldatenrat"'') and was involved in the distribution of illegal political reading-matter, including the newspaper "Der Soldatenrat", to soldiers on the frontline.<ref name=EDlautKN/>
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1941/42 nahm sie an der Herstellung, Finanzierung und Verteilung antifaschistischer Flugschriften teil sowie an der „Brandplättchenaktion" des Chemikers Walter Kämpf.
Auch beteiligte sie sich an der „Brandplättchenaktion“ des Widerstandskämpfers Walter Kämpf.
==Notes==
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==References==
==External links==
[[Category:1921 births]]
[[Category:1944 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Vienna]]
[[Category:Austrian Resistance members]]
[[Category:People executed by guillotine by Nazi Germany]]
[[Category:Executed German women]]
==Biography==
Ernestine "Erna" Diwisch was born in [[Vienna]], the daughter of Anna Diwisch (born Anna Jezek) and a railway clerk. After completing her compulsory schooling she briefly attended a "Hausfrauenschule" (''literally, "House wives school"''). In May 1941 she took an office job at the Vienna office of the [[Allianz| Allianz insurance company]]. Later she took a job with the [[:de:Wiener Neustädter Flugzeugwerke| aircraft engine plant]] in [[Wiener-Neustadt]], to the south of Vienna.<ref name=EDlautKN/>
As a child, between 1932 and 1934 she was a member of the [[:de:Rote Falken|Red Falcons (''Rote Falken'')]], a nationwide social-democratic youth organisation with a focus on excursions and camping holidays. The Red Falcons had been set up in 1925 by [[:de:Anton Tesarek|Anton Tesarek]] who believed that the teenage children of the proletariat should be encouraged to get plenty of fresh air and to develop a sense of direction for their lives.<ref name=ATlautRFOe></ref> During 1934 a series of events took place which transformed Austria into a [[Austrofascism|one-party dictatorship]] which is how the Red Falcons came to be banned that year. [[Second World War|War]] [[Invasion of Poland|resumed]] in 1939 and in 1940 Erna Diwisch began to work in her spare time for the (also illegal) [[Communist Youth of Austria|Young Communists]]. She belonged to the "Soldiers Soviet Group" (''"Gruppe Soldatenrat"'') and was involved in the distribution of illegal political reading-matter, including the newspaper "Der Soldatenrat", to soldiers on the frontline.<ref name=EDlautKN/>
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1941/42 nahm sie an der Herstellung, Finanzierung und Verteilung antifaschistischer Flugschriften teil sowie an der „Brandplättchenaktion" des Chemikers Walter Kämpf.
Auch beteiligte sie sich an der „Brandplättchenaktion“ des Widerstandskämpfers Walter Kämpf.
==Notes==
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==References==
==External links==
[[Category:1921 births]]
[[Category:1944 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Vienna]]
[[Category:Austrian Resistance members]]
[[Category:People executed by guillotine by Nazi Germany]]
[[Category:Executed German women]]
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