Gedenktafel Roman Felleis

At the Felleis-Hof in the Hagenmüllergasse 32, the city of Vienna unveiled a memorial plaque for the namesake of the residential complex, the social democratic resistance fighter Roman Felleis, on February 15, 1949. Roman Felleis was a key figure in the illegal Revolutionary Socialists after the prohibition of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP), resisting Austrofascism. He was one of the 28 defendants in the Socialists' Trial in 1936, which attracted considerable international media attention. In September 1939, he was arrested by the Gestapo as part of the persecution of the Revolutionary Socialists. He was transferred to Buchenwald and died there during an allied bombing attack on the SS barracks. In Buchenwald, Roman Felleis was active in the illegal prisoners' committee.