Hermine Zaynard (born Hermine Schwarzer: 26 May 1913 - 19 November 1943) was an Austrian technical draftswomen who became a political activist, working with the Young Communists under Austro-Fascism. After Austria's incorporation into Hitler's new Germany in 1938, and the country's inclusion in the war which broke out the next year, she became an anti-government resistance activist. On 30 September 1943 Hermine Zaynard was convicted and sentenced by the special "People's Court" in Vienna. Her execution took place by decapitation, using the guillotine that had been installed at the five years earlier.