Memorial stone for Carl Lampert at the Dornbirn Cemetery

Carl Lampert (1894–1944) was from 1918 to 1930 a chaplain in the parish of St. Martin in Dornbirn. Lampert was the highest-ranking representative of the Catholic Church who was imprisoned, tortured, and finally executed by the National Socialists. Shortly after the "Anschluss" of Austria in March 1938, Carl Lampert came increasingly into conflict with the ruling regime because of his statements. After being imprisoned in the concentration camps Dachau and Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg, Lampert was "gauverwiesen" in 1941 and banished to Stettin. Accused of espionage, he was beheaded on November 13, 1944, in Halle an der Saale. The inscription on the priest's grave was supplemented in 2006 with "as a witness of faith executed."