Memorial Stele for Richard Berger in Westfriedhof Innsbruck

The Burschenschaft Suevia remembers its deceased members on its memorial in the City West Cemetery: "For the honor of the German people, they offered their lives." Among them is also Gerhard Lausegger, leader of an SS unit that murdered Richard Berger on 10.11.1938 due to his Jewish heritage. Since the mid-1990s, social democratic functionaries and organizations have campaigned for the removal of Lausegger from the memorial. In 2014, the Suevia placed a QR code on the back of their memorial, which leads to the Burschenschaft's website. There, they distance themselves from Lausegger, but at the same time relativize the events. On 4.11.2015, Innsbruck's mayor Christine Oppitz-Plörer (For Innsbruck) handed over a stele with a bronze plaque to the public. It stands next to the Suevia memorial, remembers Richard Berger, and names the Burschenschafter and SS-man Gerhard Lausegger as one of the perpetrators.