Alfons Flisykowski

Alfons Flisykowski (22 September 1902, Goreczyno, Kartuzy County - October 5 1939, Gdańsk-Zaspa) was a Polish worker of the Polish Post Office in the Free City of Danzig in the years 1923-1939 and a second commander (after Konrad Guderski) of the defence of the Post Office from the invading Nazi German forces when World War II started on September 1 1939.

Flisykowski was captured by the Germans on September 2 and handed over to the Gestapo. He was denied a status of combatant and was later illegally put to trial, together with other 37 post-office workers, qualified as a "bandit", sentenced to death and shot in Gdańsk-Zaspa on October 5, 1939.

The grave was discovered in 1991. In the same year the families of the killed postmen founded an association called Circle of the Families of the Former Workers of Gdańsk Post Offic ("Koło Rodzin Byłych Pracowników Poczty Gdańskiej") with a goal to repeal the illegal verdict qualifying the postmen as bandits. With the help of Dieter Schenk, a former worker of Interpol and the author of a book on the subject, the case was put into a verification trial.

As a result of these actions the Land Court in Lübeck made a decision, on December 30 1996, that the previous verdict of 1939 sentencing Flisykowski to death was illegal.

Further reading

* Dieter Schenk, "Die Post von Danzig. Geschichte eines deutschen Justizmords" [Post-Office of Gdańsk. History of a German Justice Murder] , 1995