Gedenkort for Victims of National Socialism

On June 26, 2006, a memorial site for victims of National Socialism was established in the Aula of the main building of the University of Vienna on the Universitätsring. It is dedicated to former members of the University of Vienna who were persecuted or expelled during the NS regime. The memorial site was realized in the form of wall inscriptions in two side niches as part of the Aula renovation. The design of the memorial niches was already decided by the University Senate in 1990. The project was connected with the relocation of the "Siegfriedskopf," a controversial sculpture in honor of students and teachers who died in the First World War, which was located in the Aula. Here, German-national student associations regularly met.