František Rasch

At the beginning of 1918 he was stationed as Titularbootsmann (senior NCO) at the lighting department in Kumbor (located at the middle bay of Cattaro).

Bruno Frei and Jindřich Veselý describe various loose groups organising to protest against what they perceived as a catastrophic situation.

To this end they wanted to join the vast January strike wave in Austria-Hungary and give it further impetus.

Plaschka sees in Rasch the determining element of the revolt, who also clearly addressed the social-revolutionary perspective: "that the system in the state must be overthrown.

Of these, 40 were brought before a summary court, four of whom, including Rasch, were sentenced to execution by firing squad on 10 February 1918.

A plea for clemency of the civil lawyer Dr. Mitrović to the emperor, which he justified among other things by an unfair trial, remained unanswered.

[6] The execution took place early in the morning on 11 February 1918, below the cemetery walls of the nearby village Škaljari.

While Grabar, Sisgorić and Berničevič winced, Rasch remained calm and answered: "Gentlemen, in my opinion this is a judicial murder."

Don Luković began to comfort the condemned sailors by admitting that they went innocently into another world as victims of a just cause.

In Škaljari there is a memorial stone and in Kotor there are two plaques on the former court building and on the prison, on which the names of those shot are included.