Memorial plaque for Andreas Rieser in the parish church

The memorial plaque in the parish church in Dorfgastein commemorates the priest Andreas Rieser. He was born on 8 July 1908 in Dorfgastein and ordained a priest in 1932. In 1938, he was entrusted with the temporary administration of the parish of Dorfgastein. On 23 June 1938, Rieser was arrested for previously committing "insults against the Party, the Führer and the State, or suspicion of high treason" and, after a short detention in the Munich police prison, was sent on 3 August 1938 to the Dachau concentration camp. After seven years in the Dachau concentration camp and in the Buchenwald concentration camp, Rieser returned to Dorfgastein at the end of May 1945. The great willingness to help others that he showed to fellow prisoners earned him the honorific name "Angel of Dachau." In the parish church of Dorfgastein, a memorial plaque commemorates the priest Andreas Rieser. The Pinzgau community of Bramberg am Wildkogel – in which Rieser was active as a priest until his death on 3 March 1966 in Bramberg – changed the church square in 2013 into "Andreas-Rieser-Platz" in memory of Rieser.