Hedy-Urach-Gasse

The Vienna City Council Committee decided on February 15, 1949, to name a street in the 13th District after the resistance fighter Hedy Urach. In 2005, an explanatory plaque was also erected. Urach was a seamstress, factory worker, and nursery maid. From a young age, she was involved in the Communist Party of Austria. During the Austrofascist regime, she was already in custody, and after the takeover by the National Socialists, she was again detained for several months. Afterwards, she fled to Belgium, where she worked as a nursery maid. After the country was occupied by the Wehrmacht in 1940, she returned to Vienna, where she now belonged to the leadership committee of the illegal KPÖ. In June 1941, she was arrested, and on December 16, 1942, she was sentenced to death for "treason" and executed in May 1943 at the Vienna Regional Court.