Memorial plaque for Villa Gänsbacherstraße 4 and the Jewish couple Alice and Karl Bauer at the StudentInnen-Wohnheim Saggen Innsbruck

As a Jew, Alice Klein, married to Karl Bauer, had to sell her villa and garden at number 4 Gänsbacherstraße at a derisory price to the Sparkasse Innsbruck in the spring of 1939 before fleeing to the United States. The bank passed on the property to the NSDAP. After the war, the NSDAP's assets fell to the Republic of Austria. In April 1948, Alice Bauer regained her villa under financial losses, but she had to litigate with the Republic and the Sparkasse until 1950. In August 1957, the World Council of Churches, represented by the Evangelical Oberkirchenrat A.B. in Vienna, acquired the villa. In 1980, the Oberkirchenrat donated the property to the Diakonischen Verein Tirol, which today is the operator of the student housing complex Saggen. The Evangelical Superintendent Olivier Dantine of the Diocese of Salzburg/Tirol initiated the creation of the memorial plaque at the entrance area of the student housing complex. It was inaugurated on 17.1.2016.