Inscription for Franz Reinisch and Rudolf von Mayer on the Memorial Plaque at the New University Church St. Johannes Innsbruck

In the Blendnische on the outer southern side of the New University Church in Innsbruck, there is a memorial plaque beneath the coat of arms of the Catholic Austrian University Association Leopoldina, commemorating members of the association who died in the First and Second World Wars. In 2012, the association expanded the inscription to include relatives who became victims of National Socialism: Father Franz Reinisch, executed for refusing military service on religious grounds, and Rudolf von Mayer, persecuted due to his sexual orientation, and died in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Likewise, the name of Federal Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuß was also affixed to the plaque, who was murdered by the National Socialists during the July Putsch of 1934. The Leopoldina consecrated the plaque on the occasion of the Leopoldskneipe on 17.11.2012, during the annual remembrance of the dead, following the Mass, without any special ceremony.