Mixed breed league in Vienna Mischlingsliga in Wien

The Mischlingsliga in Wien (MLW) was founded on March 13, 1943, five years after the occupation of Austria by the Third Reich. It was open to people from so-called 'mixed marriages', as children of marriages between people who were considered Jewish or Jewish and 'Aryans' according to the 'Nuremberg Race Laws'. In Vienna, more than 5,500 Jews lived in so-called "mixed marriages" and were protected from deportation by "Aryan" spouses.

The Mixed Marriage League in Vienna (MLW) united members from all political backgrounds, social democrats, monarchists, conservatives and communists.

The bourgeois Hans Wewerka was appointed representative secretary, he was to lead the group and represent it externally. Wewerka was the non-denominational son of a Christian father and a Jewish mother. 

The surviving "Daily Order No. 1 of the General Secretary" of March 13, 1943, which Wewerka had signed, was addressed to all 'Mischlinge' in Vienna. It described the "MLW" as an "interest group" and "instrument of struggle": "It has set itself the task of leading the half-breeds and their relatives into a better and brighter future."

The MLW saw itself as the core troop, the vanguard of a resistance group that initially only volunteers, but later all "Mischlinge", were to belong to in order to fight the National Socialist regime. As can be seen from the indictment against the "Mischlingsliga", Otto Horn even dreamed of setting up a "motorized column". New members were recruited and given military and political training on excursions to the Lobau and the Vienna Woods. However, after Otto Horn had established contact with the Yugoslav partisans, presumably via Wilhelm Herlinger, the leadership came to the conclusion that the MLW could only continue to exist and fight effectively in conjunction with other resistance groups.

Towards the end of 1943, the MLW was therefore transformed into the Antifascist Party of Austria (APÖ), which was led by Otto Horn and Wilhelm Herlinger. Wilhelm Herlinger was originally a member of the Austrian Freedom Movement around the Augustinian canon Roman Scholz and the Christian Socialist lawyer Karl Lederer, which was crushed by the National Socialists in 1940.

The group was exposed at the beginning of January 1944, probably due to carelessness. In a trial before the People's Court on September 20 and 21, 1944, 10 members were convicted. Others were sent to a concentration camp without conviction.

Members included the following:

Otto Ernst Andreasch, Kurt Bauer, Gertrude Fanto, Hildegard Grünholz, Otto Horn, Adolf Hübner, Ernst Komaretho, Erich Lazar Küri, Rudolf Miniböck, Alexander Pick, Kurt Pollak, Robert Pollak, Egon Schlesinger, Heinz Bernd Schmissrauter, Kurt Schulhof, Hans Wawerka, Hertha Zorn, Otto Zorn