Franz-Peyerl Street

The approximately 400-meter-long Franz-Peyerl-Straße in the Salzburg district of Leopoldskroner Moos has commemorated since 1984 the first Salzburg SPÖ-Landesparteiobmann in the Second Republic. Franz Peyerl, born in 1897 in Linz, was active in the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP), for which he – along with Karl Emminger, Josef Witternig, and Robert Preußler – was also imprisoned for three months during the Austrofascism. Even after the "Anschluss," Peyerl was under surveillance due to his previous activities for the SDAP and spent some time in custody here as well. After the end of World War II, the city of Salzburg named him an honorary citizen. It was also Peyerl who, in his position as Deputy Provincial Governor, unveiled the memorial plaque for the resistance fighter and by the Nazis executed Engelbert Weiß in 1951.