Building with memorial plaque named after Samuel Steinherz

The building with student housing was planned by the GBI Holding AG. In the tradition of the parent company, the Moses Mendelssohn Stiftung, each apartment building of the "SMARTments-Reihe" (houses with student housing) is named after a distinguished Jewish personality associated with the respective city. The building in Graz was named "Samuel Steinherz Haus" because the Austrian-Czechoslovak historian and university professor grew up in Graz and Vienna. Samuel Steinherz (1857–1942) researched Jewish history and particularly advocated for the integration of Jews into European societies. When national socialist Germany in 1939 placed the entire present-day Czechoslovakia under its administration, Samuel Steinherz, like many other Jews, was excluded from cultural and scientific life. Together with his wife and daughters, Samuel Steinherz was deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto in July 1942, where he died on his 85th birthday.