Weissel, Georg#
Weissel, Georg, b. Vienna, March 28, 1899, d. Vienna (executed), Feb. 14, 1934. Chemist, fire brigade officer and leader in the Schutzbund (Defence League). Began working in the Vienna fire brigade in 1926, from 1931 fire commissioner in Floridsdorf, from 1927 commander of the student division "Akademische Legion" of the Republikanischer Schutzbund, led the Floridsdorf Schutzbund in the February Uprising in 1934, was arrested and sentenced to death.