Leopoldine Kovarik (5 February 1919 – 2 November 1943) was a who lived and worked in a suburb on the south side of Vienna. After Austria was merged into Nazi Germany she became a resistance activist. During the Second World War she became a member of a group which used to write letters to members of the army encouraging them to desert. Aged 24, she was convicted under the usual charge of "preparing to commit high treason" ("Vorbereitung zum Hochverrat") and guillotined at Vienna's , which had incorporated its own execution chamber since the aftermath of the short-lived uprising of 1934.