Wenzel Primosch
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Imprisoned 07.07. 1943 - 22.03.1945,
Murdered on 22.03.1945
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Curriculum Vitae
Wenzel Primosch was born in Klagenfurt as the son of a worker and only attended elementary school there. He then worked as a laborer and was drafted in 1915. He was deployed on the Russian, Turkish and Italian fronts. After returning home from the war, he took part in the Carinthian defensive battles. He then worked as a laborer again and was often unemployed.
He strictly rejected the NSDAP from the outset and joined the Patriotic Front in the 1930s. After the outbreak of war, he was drafted into the air force in August 1939 and rose to the rank of non-commissioned officer. There he also met Eduard Pumpernig.
In October 1941, Eduard Pumpernig approached Wenzel Primosch and recruited him for the "Antifascist Freedom Movement of Austria" (AFÖ). He is involved in the AFÖ, distributes flyers with anti-Nazi content and accompanies Eduard Pumpernig on trips to recruit new members for the AFÖ. Wenzel Primosch was also involved in plans for attacks on National Socialist and infrastructural facilities.
[Eduard] Pumpernig produced around 1000 to 1500 copies. Pumpernig had already informed the defendants Primosch and Ortner of the plan to distribute pamphlets. He had instructed Primosch to pick him up at the train station on his return from Vienna on the night of March 27-28, 1942. (...) Pumpernig, Primosch and [Franz] Stoppacher scattered around 1,000 of the leaflets produced by Pumpernig in the streets of Klagenfurt on the same night, which preceded Armed Forces Day.
Citations
Dokumentationsarchiv des Österreichischen Widerstands (DÖW)
www.zurerinnerung.at
