Anton-Falle Street, Drobollach am Faaker See/Drobolje pri Baškem jezeru

Anton Falle was born on 25 March 1886 in Rajach in the Villach Land district. The Carinthian Slovene spent his youth as a farmhand, before finding work on the construction of the Karawankenbahn railway, where he came into contact with socialism. Later, periods of unemployment alternated with various jobs; politically, he became active in the Social Democratic Workers' Party and became its district party secretary in 1918 and a member of the National Council in 1921. Between 1927 and 1934, he was the party leader of the Social Democratic Workers' Party in Carinthia. After 12 February 1934, Anton Falle tried to organize socialist resistance against Austrofascism, was arrested, and sentenced to one year in prison. After the "Anschluss" of Austria to the German Reich, he refrained from further resistance activities, but was nevertheless deported to the Dachau concentration camp after the failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler in 1944. There, Anton Falle died on 15 January 1945. In 1978, a street in Drobollach near Lake Faak was named after him.