Gedenktafel Otto Haas

At the Otto-Haas-Hof in the Winarskystraße 18, the City of Vienna installed a memorial plaque for Otto Haas, the namesake of the residential complex, the social democratic resistance fighter Otto Haas, on June 4, 1950. The primary school teacher Otto Haas was imprisoned for four weeks under the Austrofascist regime after February 1934. He built the most significant resistance group of the Revolutionary Socialists against the national socialist regime. In July 1942, his network in Vienna, Salzburg, Tyrol and Bavaria was uncovered by the Gestapo. Otto Haas was sentenced to death by the People's Court on December 15, 1943, and was executed in the District Court of Vienna on August 30, 1944. Haas lived with his siblings and his mother Philomena in apartment door 6, stairway 2.