Memorial Plate of the Home Town of Three Resistance Fighters

At Gerlhof in Stromstraße 39-45, the district group Brigittenau of the KZ-Verband (KZ-Verbands) installed a memorial plaque for the resistance fighters Johann Sebesta, Karl Hodac and Walter Schopf on 30 October 1963. The plaque was made from white stone. Under the emblem of the KZ-Verband (red triangle, number '369') the inscription recalls the honoured individuals who had lived in this house. The worker Karl Hodac (born 12 December 1901) was a communist district official in Margareten and head of the works cell in the book and art printing works Steyrermühl. He was beheaded at the Vienna Regional Court on 8 November 1944. The commercial employee Walter Schop, (born 26 February 1922) was employed at the metal goods factory Blau. He distributed illegal leaflets against the national socialist regime and collected money for relatives of the imprisoned. He was beheaded in Berlin-Plötzensee on 9 September 1943. The bank employee Johann Sebesta (born 25 December 1900) was an official of the illegal KPÖ. He was beheaded at the Vienna Regional Court on 10 December 1942.