Inscription for the Location of the Gestapo on the Memorial Plaque at the State Building Authority Innsbruck

Following a proposal by Doris Linser, councilor of the Greens, from 20.11.1995, and the approval of the Innsbruck City Senate on 27.3.1996, to erect a memorial plaque at Herrengasse 1, the former seat of the Gestapo, State Governor Wendelin Weingartner (ÖVP) declared the state of Tyrol responsible, as the building housed the state building authority. He had the plaque installed by the end of June 1998, which did not include the note that Herrengasse 1 housed the Gestapo headquarters for the Tirol-Vorarlberg region. After intense protests, Weingartner, Heinz Mayer (chairman of the "Bund der Opfer des politischen Freiheitskampfes in Tirol"), and Ludwig Steiner, a resistance fighter himself, agreed on a text that was incorporated into the revised "Historical Information Plaque" in the spring of 1999.