Memorial Plaque for Ernst Ortner at the Kaiser Karl Chapel Lienz

Ernst Ortner was executed by beheading in the Vienna District Court on 22.3.1945 for his activities on behalf of the "Antifaschistische Freiheitsbewegung Österreich". The institution's chaplain, Eduard Köck, passed on Dorothea Ortner the final request of her husband to establish a memorial plaque in the Kaiser Karl Chapel in the War Cemetery near St. Andrä in Lienz. The historian Herbert Steiner mentions a Mr. Niederwieser, who is said to have given the order for the plaque to be made. Within the Ortner family, however, mention is made of Siegfried Etzelsberger, the locksmith, who was closely friends with Josef, the brother of Ernst Ortner.