Agnes-Primocic-Hof

In memory of the resistance fighter Agnes Primocic, the town of Hallein named the 2014 newly built nonprofit housing complex "Agnes-Primocic-Hof". Already in 1999, Primocic had been named an honorary citizen of Hallein.

Agnes Primocic, born Reinthaler, was born on 30 January 1905 in Hallein and worked in the Hallein cigar and tobacco factory from the age of 16. At the age of 25, she began fighting as a trade unionist and works council member for better working conditions in the factory. Even during the Austrofascist period, Primocic provided active political resistance and joined the KPÖ, which had been banned in 1933. After she had tried to organize a strike in the factory, she was fired. Even before the so-called Anschluss of Austria, Primocic was repeatedly arrested and spent a total of one year in custody.

Even after 1938, Primocic was repeatedly interrogated, mistreated, and imprisoned for three more times by the Gestapo until 1945. However, Primocic remained actively involved in political resistance throughout the years until 1945. She supported other resistance fighters, was engaged in the Red Aid, which supported the relatives of politically persecuted people, and helped in the summer of 1943 the Upper Austrian resistance fighter Sepp Plieseis to escape from the concentration camp. Also in 1944, with her help, two more prisoners managed to escape from the camp in Hallein.

Even after World War II, Agnes Primocic remained politically active, among other things for the KPÖ Salzburg. As a city council member, she advocated for the expansion of kindergartens and the social rights of the population. From 1984, Primocic publicly testified as a witness of her resistance activities. She died on 14 April 2007 in Hallein.