Anton-Falle-Weg, Rajach bei Velden/Vrba

Anton Falle was born on 25 March 1886 in Rajach in the district of Villach Land. The Carinthian Slovene spent his youth as a servant, before finding work on the construction of the Karawankenbahn and there came into contact with Social Democracy. Later, periods of unemployment alternated with various activities; politically, he became active in the Social Democratic Workers' Party and became district party secretary in 1918 and a member of the National Council in 1921. Between 1927 and 1934 he was the state party chairman of the Social Democratic Workers' Party in Carinthia. After the 12th February 1934, Anton Falle tried to organize socialist resistance against Austrofascism, but was arrested and sentenced to one year of heavy imprisonment. After the "Anschluss" of Austria to the German Reich, he ceased his resistance activities, but was nevertheless deported to the Dachau concentration camp after the failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler in 1944. He died in Dachau concentration camp on 15 January 1945. The path that connects Anton Falle's birthplace Rajach with the neighboring Kantnig was named after him in 1992.