Gedenktafel for Robert Jungk

The memorial plaque for Robert Jungk has been located since 2015 in the Steingasse in the heart of Salzburg's center. The futurist, journalist and activist lived in Salzburg since 1970. Born in Berlin in 1913, he became a convinced pacifist. After the Reichstag fire in Germany in February 1933, he was briefly arrested, but was soon released again. After stays in Parisian exile, Jungk fled via Prague to Switzerland, where he wrote for various Swiss newspapers about events in National Socialist Germany as well as first reports on the atrocities of the concentration camps; particularly the latter, no one wanted to believe during the early 1940s. After the end of the Second World War, Jungk engaged against atomic armament. Robert Jungk died on 14 July 1994 and was buried in a honor grave at the Jewish cemetery in Salzburg.