Gedenktafel Hermann Langbein

On March 15, 2001, a memorial plaque was installed at Bundesgymnasium Wien XIX in Gymnasiumstraße 83, commemorating the writer, actor, and resistance fighter Hermann Langbein, who had graduated from this school. Langbein was active in the illegal Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) during the Austrofascist period and fought in the Spanish Civil War against the establishment of the dictatorship by General Franco. After the defeat of the Republicans, he fled to France, where he was arrested and handed over to the national socialist regime. Langbein was imprisoned in the concentration camps Dachau, Auschwitz, and Neuengamme, where he was involved in the prisoners' resistance. In April 1945, he managed to escape from an evacuation transport.