Memorial for the Freedom Fighters and Victims of National Socialism of East Tirol with Book of Victims Lienz

Josef Wurzer, leader of the district group of the "Bund der Opfer des Politischen Freiheitskampfes" in Lienz, initiated the erection of a granite memorial for the NS victims of East Tyrol, designed by the Lienz artist Hermann Pedit. The costs were covered by the city and the "Bund der Opfer". On 30.5.1965, Dean Alois Budemaier inaugurated the memorial with the assistance of Priest Julius Nußbaumer. Gottfried Kalser and Franz Faustini, soldiers of the Haspingerkaserne Lienz, the historian Martin Kofler, the chronicler Stefan Weis, and Josef Wurzer requested on 19.12.2015 the establishment of a "memorial book" at the Lienz memorial. In February 2017, the town council approved. The initiators recorded the names of 50 victims, and they did not name the 55 victims of the NS euthanasia due to data protection reasons. On 5.5.2017, Dean Bernhard Kranebitter and Priest Hans Hecht inaugurated the "Book of Victims" of the NS dictatorship in East Tyrol, executed by the master craftsman of ornamental metalwork Rudolf Duregger.