Käthe Odwody (born Katharina Wanek; 6 March 1901 – 23 September 1943) was an Austrian worker at a commercial bakery and trades union officer who became a communist resistance activist against the Dollfuß dictatorship and, after 1938, against the National Socialist ("Nazi") régime. Her cover name within the Siegl resistance group was "Walli". She was executed, along with two of her resistance comrades, by guillotine at the district court complex in Vienna on 23 September 1943. Biography Katharina "Käthe" Wanek was born in Hulken in Austria-Hungary (today Hluk in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic), about to the north-east of Vienna. She was youngest of the six children of the farm workers Franz and Maria Wanek. The family relocated to Vienna in 1905. She attended the junior school in the Favoriten quarter on the southern side of the city for six years and then undertook a succession "assistant" jobs. In 1921 she married Franz Odwody, a machinist-assistant five years older than she. He emigrated to America in 1922 but returned to Vienna in 1924. That year Käthe was recruited to work at the Ankerbot bakery, Austria's leading industrial bakery, where she worked till 1934, also serving on the factory's works council. She was active as a member of the Austrian Free Trades Union of Food and Drink Workers between 1923 and 1934. The Ankerbot bakery was well known as a centre of labour activism. Back in 1918 employees had created a "workers' army" of around 1,000 men to protect the factory: this ad hoc militia had at that time been one of the largest quasi-military organisations in Vienna. During the short-lived (and brutally suppressed) insurrection in February 1934 the factory became a centre for the anti-government protection league and other socialist resistance groups. Workers responded to the strike call of the trades union movement and many were involved in armed street fighting against forces backing the post-democratic Dollfuß régime. The protection league member Alexander Scheck, whose shooting by government forces on 13 February 1934 marked the collapse of the resistance, was an Ankerbot worker. Käthe Odwody herself was among the Ankerbrot workers arrested in the aftermath of the street fighting. She was held in custody between 17 February and 11 May 1934. It was only a few weeks after her release, on 14 June 1934, that she was charged at the Vienna district court with "Insurrection and High Treason"