Gedenkzeichen Käthe Leichter

On May 22, 2006, a memorial plaque was unveiled on the façade of the house at Ebendorferstraße 7, commemorating the sociologist and social democratic politician Käthe Leichter, who worked in this house as the first head of the Women's Department of the Workers' Chamber. Leichter was actively involved in political resistance during the Austrofascist period. After the National Socialists seized power, Leichter was arrested by the Gestapo in May 1938, deported to the concentration camp Ravensbrück in 1940, and murdered in the psychiatric institution Bernburg/Saale in 1942. The memorial plaque consists of two glass panels, designed in the shape of the initials of Käthe Leichter. The design was created by Ingeborg Kumpfmüller. The panels were erected on the initiative of the Workers' Chamber Vienna.