Memorial Plaque for Nikolaus Staudt

The 25-year-old medical student Nikolaus Staudt was shot by the German border guard at the Gandasee in 1944 while attempting to flee to Switzerland over the Gafierjoch, having been betrayed by a local guide from Gargellen. Staudt had refused military service and wished to flee to his family in Argentina via Switzerland. Pastor Eberhard Amann had installed a memorial plaque for Nikolaus Staudt in St. Gallenkirch in the 1990s, but had it removed again in 2019, shortly before his death. The plaque has since been transferred to the Heimatmuseum Schruns from his estate.