Carl-Szokoll-Platz

The square in the 9th district was named after the resistance fighter and Wehrmacht officer Carl Szokoll in 2008. As a lieutenant, he supported the "Operation Walküre" of Major Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg in 1943/1944, who attempted an unsuccessful assassination of Hitler on July 20, 1944. Unlike other confidants of Stauffenberg, Szokoll was not uncovered and eventually established a resistance group in the Wehrkreiskommando XVII in Vienna in early 1945. Their goal was to support the Red Army in the capture of Vienna ("Operation Radetzky"), in order to prevent further fighting and destruction in the city. The plan was betrayed, and several members of the group (Alfred Huth, Karl Biedermann and Rudolf Raschke) were arrested and executed. Carl Szokoll survived. He became a well-known film producer after 1945.