Gedenktafel Franz Schuster

At the Franz-Schuster-Hof in the Hagenmüllergasse 14-16, the city of Vienna installed a memorial plaque for Franz Schuster, the namesake of the residential complex, on 15 February 1949. Franz Schuster was a functionary of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) until 1934 and a member of the Republican Protection League. After the February Fighting of 1934, in which he had actively participated at the Vienna Gasworks, he joined the Communist Party of Austria. Under Austrofascism, Schuster was imprisoned in the Anhalt detention camp in Wöllersdorf. Under National Socialism, he was arrested by the Gestapo on 1 September 1939 and deported to the concentration camp Buchenwald, where he died on 13 September 1943 from the hardships of imprisonment. Also in Buchenwald, Franz Schuster was organized within the Austrian prisoners' group and the international prisoners' committee.