Festsaal im Diözesanhaus Klagenfurt/Celovec named after Anton Granig

In the Diözesanhaus Klagenfurt, seven rooms were named in 2014 after people who were murdered by the National Socialists due to their Christian convictions. In front of each room, a plaque with the biography of the person after whom the room is named is mounted. The banquet hall in the Diözesanhaus bears the name "Anton Granig." Anton Granig was born in 1901 in Großkirchheim in the Mölltal, and was ordained a priest in 1932. During the National Socialism, he was one of the key figures of the resistance movement "Antifaschistische Freiheitsbewegung Österreich," founded in 1942. In mid-1943, this movement was uncovered and Anton Granig was arrested. In a trial before the People's Court, he was sentenced to death and shot on April 15, 1945, along with 43 other people in the prison Stein on the Danube in Lower Austria.