Memorial "Wider das Vergessen" at the site of the State Hospital Innsbruck

At the suggestion of Bishop Reinhold Stecher in December 1995, Herbert Weissenböck, managing director of tirol kliniken, enabled the establishment of a memorial in memory of the victims of the NS-Euthanasia in the grounds of the Tiroler Landeskrankenhauses in Innsbruck. The driving forces were Hartmann Hinterhuber and Ullrich Meise, board member and deputy head of the University Clinic for Psychiatry in Inns,bruck. A building block action ensured the financing. Johann Feilacher, head of the „House of Artists“ in Maria Gugging, Klosterneuburg, proposed using a drawing by Oswald Tschirtner, patient in Gugging and internationally recognized artist, as a model. Florian and Gregor Unterrainer (Schmiede Infeld, Kitzbühel) ensured the execution. Tschirtner's „Kopffüßer“ are a depiction of people without external characteristics, neither defining gender nor ownership. On 26.6.1997, Bishop Stecher consecrated the memorial.