Memorial plaque for Father Reinisch, Parish Church of St. Pankratius and Zeno

Franz Reinisch, born in 1903 in Feldkirch, was ordained a priest in 1928 and worked in various German cities. After the Nazi takeover, he clearly took a stand against Nazi ideology, expressing regime-critical views in his sermons and speeches. In 1940, he was banned by the Gestapo from preaching and speaking throughout the entire German Reich. When he received his conscription into the Wehrmacht in 1942, he refused to take the "Führer oath." Because of "weakening of military strength," Father Reinisch was sentenced to death by the Reich War Court and beheaded on August 21, 1942. A memorial plaque in the Feldkirch parish church of St. Pankratius and Zeno remembers him.