Monument to Johann Koplenig

The memorial for Johann Koplenig, chairman of the KPÖ from 1927 to 1965 and co-founder of the Second Republic, was unveiled on 11 March 1988 at the Höchstädtplatz in the 20th district. The location is in front of the Globus-Haus, which was opened in 1956, until 1992 the party headquarters of the KPÖ and the seat of the Globus Newspaper, Printing and Publishing Company, where the most important media of the KPÖ appeared. The memorial was designed by Fritz Weber and Jan Schneider. It consists of a stele on which a bust of Johann Koplenig and four surrounding stone tablets with inscriptions are mounted. Due to the redevelopment of the Höchstädtplatz, the memorial was dismantled in 1994 and re-erected after the completion of the square in 1995. The reopening took place on 27 April 1995, the 50th anniversary of the proclamation of Austria's independence by the provisional state government, to which Koplenig belonged. The memorial is located in immediate proximity to the memorial for victims and fighters against fascist tyranny.