Erwin-Puschmann-Gasse

Erwin Puschmann was a communist resistance fighter who was sentenced to death by the Nazi regime and executed. Already during the Austrofascism, Puschmann was repeatedly imprisoned as a member of the banned KPÖ. When the National Socialists came to power, he fled to Yugoslavia in order to promote the underground rebuilding of the KPÖ from there. Eventually, he returned to Vienna himself as a leading functionary and lived under a pseudonym until he was betrayed and arrested. The Nazi judiciary charged him with "high treason" and sentenced him to death. He was executed in 1943 at the Vienna Regional Court.