Building named after Richard Zach

Memorial plaque at the holiday home named after Richard Zach in 1977. The Graz teacher and writer Richard Zach (1919–1943) established a widely branched network of youth resistance cells and published leaflets and the newspaper "Roter Stoßtrupp," which reached as far as Upper and Western Styria. "Because of suspicion of having spread communist slogans," he was arrested on October 31, 1941, and sentenced to death by the Reichskriegsgericht (Imperial War Court), and executed on January 27, 1943, shortly before his 24th birthday in Brandenburg. During his time in custody, hundreds of poems were created, some of which eventually reached the public through indirect means.