Engelbert-Weiß-Weg

The Salzburg City Council named a street in the district of Itzling – close to the Salzburg main railway station – after the railway worker and resistance fighter Engelbert Weiß. The long-standing trusted representative of the railway workers and trade unionists re-founded the banned Revolutionary Socialists of Austria (RSÖ) in 1939 and promoted cooperation with the resistance group of the KPÖ. Both groups were dissolved by the Gestapo in 1942, with members arrested. Engelbert Weiß was sentenced to death for his activities against the NS regime and was murdered at the Vienna Land Court on 7 April 1944. In addition to the street renaming, a memorial plaque on the façade of his former home in the city of Salzburg and a Stolperstein commemorating the resistance fighter also serve as reminders.