Anton-Graf-Straße

The street named after Anton Graf in 1998 commemorates the railway worker and machine locksmith born on 14 June 1899 in Braunau am Inn. Until the ban in 1934, the trade unionist was a member of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) and was active with the Children and Nature Friends. Due to his membership in the Revolutionary Socialists of Austria (RSÖ), he was persecuted during Austrofascism, but was nevertheless able to successfully maintain contacts with other socialists and socialist women both within and outside of Austria. Furthermore, Anton Graf also maintained good contacts with the resistance fighter Engelbert Weiss. In 1942, the Gestapo uncovered the resistance cells of the RSÖ; Graf was arrested on 3 April 1942 and was subsequently sentenced to death in the following People's Court trial. The sentence was carried out on 21 July 1943 in the Vienna Regional Court. His wife, Maria Graf, who carried out courier services for the RSÖ, was also imprisoned, but survived the NS period.