Gedenktafel Ludwig Vesely

At the Wildganshof in the Leberstraße 2-2a, the state association of Austrian concentration camp survivors installed a memorial plaque for the communist resistance fighter Ludwig Vesely in December 1949. Ludwig Vesely was sentenced in 1941 to two years and six months of imprisonment by the national socialist judiciary for activities in support of the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ). After serving his sentence, Vesely was deported to the concentration camp Auschwitz. There, Vesely became one of the pillars of the prisoners' resistance together with other Austrian prisoners such as Rudolf Friemel, Alfred Klahr, Hermann Langbein, and Ernst Burger. In May 1943, the national prisoner groups formed the international fighting group Auschwitz, which aimed to organize an armed uprising. The plan was betrayed. Vesely was among those arrested. He was hanged on the parade ground of the main camp of Auschwitz on December 30, 1944, together with Rudolf Friemel and Ernst Burger, as well as two Polish prisoners. On the fifth anniversary of his execution, three memorial plaques were unveiled at the homes of Ludwig Vesely, Rudolf Friemel, and Ernst Burger.