Gedenktafel Karl Lederer und Rudolf Löw

The memorial plaque for Karl Lederer and Rudolf Löw was installed on 10 March 1988 in the building of the Finanzprokuratur at Singerstraße 17–19 in the 1st district. The plaque is located in the area of the main staircase. Rudolf Löw was president of the Finanzprokuratur from 1929 to 1938. He was persecuted by the National Socialists as a Jew, deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto in September 1942, and killed there. Karl Lederer had been an employee of the Finanzprokuratur since 1936 and was dismissed from public service by the NS regime as a "Jewish mixed-race individual". Lederer was a member of the "Austrian Freedom Movement". The group produced numerous leaflets with anti-Nazi content. In the summer of 1940, the Gestapo informer Otto Hartmann betrayed their activities, and Lederer was arrested together with about 300 other resistance fighters. He was accused of planning to overthrow the NS regime, to "separate the Alpine and Danube regions from the Greater German Reich", and to establish an independent Austrian state. The trial lasted over the years 1943 and 1944 and ended with the conviction of Karl Lederer and ten other persons to death. The verdict was carried out in the Vienna Regional Court in May 1944.