Gisela-Tschofenig-Weg Villach/Beljak

In Villach-St. Agathen, a path in memory of the resistance fighter Gisela Tschofenig, born Taurer, was named in 2022 on the initiative of the association Erinnern Villach. Gisela Tschofenig was born in 1917 in St. Leonhard in the community of Landskron and lived with her family in Villach from 1925 onwards. Already as a young person, she was active in the communist youth organization. During the National Socialism, she engaged in the communist resistance and was therefore arrested in the autumn of 1944 and interned in the women's prison Kaplanhof in Linz. Only two weeks before the end of the war, on 27 April 1945, she was executed in the labor education camp Schörgenhub near Linz, as the mother of a small son.