Ernst-Stoiber-Weg

Next to a Stolperstein in the city of Salzburg, the Ernst-Stoiber-Way in the district of Maxglan also commemorates the Salzburg railwayman, who was murdered by the National Socialists due to his engagement in the Communist Youth. Born on 10 May 1922 in Salzburg, Ernst-Paul Stoiber was the son of Franziska and Michael Stoiber. He was a member of the Social Democratic Workers' Party as well as the Free Union and the Republican Protective Association, until these were banned in 1934 by the Austrofascist regime. The trained carpenter was friends with the resistance fighter Franz Ofner as well as the resistance fighter Rosa Hofmann. When in 1942 the Salzburg resistance cells and networks were uncovered, the Gestapo also arrested Ofner, Hofmann and Stoiber, who was held in the police prison of the city of Salzburg. Stoiber was supposed to be taken on 24 April 1942 for interrogation to the Gestapo headquarters, but instead jumped from the second floor, although he survived seriously injured. In November of the same year, the "People's Court" sentenced him to death for "preparation for high treason". Ernst-Paul Stoiber was beheaded on 10 June 1943 in Munich-Stadelheim.