Eleonore-Pfeiffer-Weg

The Eleonore Pfeiffer Path in the Flachgauer community of Bürmoos is named after the resistance fighter born on 24 August 1906 in St. Georgen, who dedicated herself during the final weeks of the war to organizing hideouts and provisions for the deserter Rupert Rückl – her brother-in-law. Eleonore Pfeiffer had never been politically active up to that point, yet she was close to communist ideals and strongly rejected National Socialism and its ideology; not least possibly due to the fact that her two nephews, Karl and Paul, fell in battle in 1944 and 1945 respectively, and her niece Anneliese became a victim of a typhus epidemic in 1945. Pfeiffer herself remained unmarried. Until her death on 29 October 1999, she led a quiet life; she acquired her knowledge in culture and politics independently, walked or cycled throughout her life, and devoted herself to gardening.