Dr.-Granig-Gasse Klagenfurt/Celovec

As part of a decision by the municipal council from the year 1987, the name of a lane in the Klagenfurt district of Welzenegg was changed to Dr.-Granig-Gasse in honor of Anton Granig.

Anton Granig was born in 1901 in the municipality of Großkirchheim in the Mölltal, and was ordained a priest in 1932. During the Nazi era, 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. There are several memorials to Anton Granig in Carinthia, including a commemorative plaque at the church of Sagritz near his hometown of Mitten in the Mölltal.