Gedenktafel Willibald Plöchl

On May 28, 2007, a memorial plaque was unveiled on the façade of the house at Universitätsstraße 10, commemorating the jurist and canon lawyer Willibald Plöchl. Plöchl lived in this house from 1947 until his death. Due to his engagement against illegal National Socialists, Plöchl was immediately dismissed from his post shortly after the so-called "Anschluss". After a brief period in Gestapo custody, he went into exile in 1938 – first in Nimwegen and later in the United States, where he worked for the establishment of an Austrian exile government.