Hans-Prodinger-Straße

Already in 1960, the city of Salzburg decided to name a street after Hans Prodinger. Born in Villach and trained as a merchant, he was born in 1887 and became involved in the Deutsche Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei (DNSAP) in the 1920s, which, like the NSDAP, promoted a völkisch, racist, and antisemitic worldview. No less, a splinter group of the DNSAP developed into the Austrian NSDAP, to which Prodinger no longer belonged. Towards the end of the 1920s, he became a member of the Großdeutsche Volkpartei (GDVP), for which he sat in the Austrian National Council between 1928 and 1934. Due to his political opposition to the NSDAP, he was arrested only a few months after the “Anschluss” and interned in the concentration camp Dachau. There, he was murdered on 5 September 1938.