Memorial Plaque Oskar Grossmann

At the Großmannhof in Denisgasse 39-41, the city of Vienna placed a memorial plaque in 1949 in honor of Oskar Großmann, the namesake of the housing complex, a communist journalist and resistance fighter. The journalist Oskar Großmann (also: Grossmann) was during the period of National Socialist rule the political leader of the Austrian resistance fighters of the Communist Party of Austria in France. He published the newspaper "Soldat am Mittelmeer," which conducted propaganda against National Socialism among German soldiers in southern France. The group around Großmann also participated in sabotage actions. In May 1944, Großmann was seriously injured by a bomb explosion and arrested by the Gestapo. His traces disappear in Lyon, where he was detained and tortured by the Gestapo.