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Terezija Vajngerl - Tetka

A fearless Liberation Front courier in the grip of Cominform
Author(s):Mateja Ratej
Co-author(s):Borut Batagelj (ur.), Simon Zupan (prev.), Zoja Frece (prev.)
Leto:2025
Publisher(s):Zgodovinsko društvo Celje, Celje
Source(s):Zgodovina za vse, 2025, št. 1
Language(s):slovenščina, nemščina, angleščina
Type(s) of material:text
Keywords:odporniško gibanje 1941–45, Maribor, Prlekija, Terezija Vajngerl, Informbiro, resistance movement 1941-45, Cominform
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The author focuses on the life of the Maribor housewife Terezija Vajngerl (1913-1997), who was strongly marked by the Second World War, when she proved to be a bold and courageous courier of the Liberation Front for Prlekija and Slovenske gorice, and by the post-war establishment of a new social order, when in 1949 she was subjected to a Cominform (Informbiro) show trial on the charge of inter-war collaboration with the Gestapo. The accusation concerned her contact with the Gestapo interpreter Hans Gerniak, a pre-war Maribor Hitlerite, through whom, as a courier, Tetka protected herself and her relatives after being compromised by the Gestapo, while at the same time obtaining information for the resistance movement. Her case, which resulted in her acquittal after numerous favorable testimonies from former OF collaborators, was closely linked to the prosecution of the main organiser of the resistance movement in Maribor in 1943-44, Dušan Špindler, whose courier she was.

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  • identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/11686/71980
    • title
      • Terezija Vajngerl - Tetka
      • Neustrašna kurirka Osvobodilne fronte v primežu Informbiroja
      • Terezija Vajngerl - Tetka
      • A fearless Liberation Front courier in the grip of Cominform
    • creator
      • Mateja Ratej
    • contributor
      • Borut Batagelj (ur.)
      • Simon Zupan (prev.)
      • Zoja Frece (prev.)
    • subject
      • odporniško gibanje 1941–45
      • Maribor
      • Prlekija
      • Terezija Vajngerl
      • Informbiro
      • resistance movement 1941-45
      • Cominform
    • description
      • Avtorica se v razpravi ukvarja z življenjsko potjo mariborske gospodinje Terezije Vajngerl (1913–1997), ki jo je močno zaznamovala druga svetovna vojna, ko se je izkazala kot drzna in pogumna kurirka Osvobodilne fronte za Prlekijo in Slovenske gorice, ter povojno vzpostavljanje novega družbenega reda, ko je bila leta 1949 podvržena informbirojevskemu sodnemu procesu zaradi obtožbe o medvojnem sodelovanju z Gestapom. Očitek je zadeval njen stik s tolmačem Gestapa Hansom Gerniakom, predvojnim mariborskim hitlerjancem, s pomočjo katerega je kot kurirka Tetka zaščitila sebe in svojce po kompromitaciji na Gestapu in obenem pridobivala informacije za odporniško gibanje. Njen primer, iz katerega je po številnih pozitivnih izpovedih nekdanjih sodelavcev OF izšla z oprostilno sodbo, je bil tesno povezan s kazenskim pregonom glavnega organizatorja odporniškega gibanja v Mariboru v letih 1943–44 Dušana Špindlerja, katerega kurirka je bila.
      • The author focuses on the life of the Maribor housewife Terezija Vajngerl (1913-1997), who was strongly marked by the Second World War, when she proved to be a bold and courageous courier of the Liberation Front for Prlekija and Slovenske gorice, and by the post-war establishment of a new social order, when in 1949 she was subjected to a Cominform (Informbiro) show trial on the charge of inter-war collaboration with the Gestapo. The accusation concerned her contact with the Gestapo interpreter Hans Gerniak, a pre-war Maribor Hitlerite, through whom, as a courier, Tetka protected herself and her relatives after being compromised by the Gestapo, while at the same time obtaining information for the resistance movement. Her case, which resulted in her acquittal after numerous favorable testimonies from former OF collaborators, was closely linked to the prosecution of the main organiser of the resistance movement in Maribor in 1943-44, Dušan Špindler, whose courier she was.
    • publisher
      • Zgodovinsko društvo Celje
    • date
      • 2025
    • type
      • besedilo
    • language
      • Slovenščina
      • Nemščina
      • Angleščina
    • isPartOf
    • rights
      • license: ccBySa