Gasse named after Richard Zach

The Graz teacher and writer Richard Zach (1919–1943) established a widely branched network of youth resistance cells and published the newspaper "Roter Stoßtrupp". «Because of suspicion of having defaced with communist slogans», he was arrested on 31 October 1941 and sentenced to death by the Reichskriegsgericht, and executed on 27 January 1943, shortly before his 24th birthday, in Brandenburg. During his imprisonment, hundreds of poems were created, some of which eventually reached the public through indirect means.