Memorial for Karl Biedermann, Alfred Huth, Rudolf Raschke

On March 11, 2008, 80 years after the "Anschluss" of Austria to the national socialist Germany, Vienna's mayor Michael Häupl and Defense Minister Norbert Darabos unveiled a memorial at the Floridsdorfer Spitz for the resistance fighters Karl Biedermann, Alfred Huth, and Rudolf Raschke. The three officers of the Wehrmacht had joined a resistance group within the Wehrkreiskommando XVII around Carl Szokoll in the spring of 1945 and participated in the (failed) attempt to hand over Vienna to the Red Army without combat. They were, however, arrested in early April. A SS court-martial sentenced them to death, and they were hanged on April 8, 1945, at the Floridsdorfer Spitz. The metallic memorial consists of several elements, which are explained on the inscription.