Memorial Plaque Johann Friedländer

On 15 October 2008, a memorial plaque was unveiled on the façade of the house at Wenzgasse 19, commemorating the Federal Army officer Johann Friedländer. Friedländer had lived in this house until 1942. Affected by the antisemitic policies of the National Socialist regime, he and his wife were deported in 1943 to the concentration camp Theresienstadt. Shortly before the end of the war, Johann Friedländer was shot by SS-Oberscharführer Bruno Schlage during a death march near the concentration camp Auschwitz. The memorial plaque was donated by the Federal Ministry of Defence. The initiative for the installation of the memorial plaque came from Simon Wiesenthal, who encouraged the Military Historical Monuments Commission to address the subject.