Gedenktafel Franz Pfannenstiel

At Pfannenstielhof in the Chamissogasse 26-28, the city of Vienna installed a memorial plaque for the namesake of the residential complex, Franz Pfannenstiel, in the year 1949. Franz Pfannenstiel was a member of the Republican Schutzbund. After February 1934, he became one of the leading figures of the Revolutionary Socialists. Under the NS regime, Franz Pfannenstiel was arrested in 1939, sentenced to two years and three months in prison, and deported to the concentration camp Dachau in 1941. In 1944, he was conscripted into the Penal Battalion 999. He died in Soviet prisoner of war captivity.