Josef "Sepp" Plieseis (20 December 1913 - 21 October 1966) was an
Austrian resistance fighter against the
Nazi regime.
Plieseis was born in
Bad Ischl and became a young member of the
Socialist movement. He volunteered to fight in the
Spanish Civil War, where he was wounded twice. He was arrested in France and incarcerated in
concentration camps in
Gurs,
St. Cyprienne, und
Argiles before returning to his home in
Salzkammergut. He was arrested at the border by the Nazi authorities and sent to
Linz, then
Dachau
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, and finally to Dachau's annex in
Hallein.
He managed to escape from this camp and hid in the forests and mountains of his native area. He helped organize resistance activities based on his experience that persisted until the Nazi surrender and American occupation in 1945. After the war, he served in various political appointments in his home area and remained a member of the
Communist Party of Austria.
External links
Austrian profile of Plieseis
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1913 births
1966 deaths
Austrian resistance members
Communist Party of Austria politicians
People from Bad Ischl
Austrian communists
Austrian people of the Spanish Civil War
Dachau concentration camp survivors