Memorial to Resistance Fighters Murdered in the Concentration Camp Mauthausen

On July 16, 1948, a memorial stone was erected in the urn cemetery near the crematorium in Vienna (Simmeringer Hauptstraße 337) for resistance fighters murdered in the concentration camp Mauthausen (Department 2, Ring 1, Group 1, Grave 27). The memorial stone commemorates Josef Brenner (born January 26, 1898), Matthias Nagel (born November 21, 1899), Franz Reinelt (born December 14, 1900), Anton Vogelsang (born December 14, 1898), Otto Wehofschitz (born May 20, 1912), and Fritz Zwickl (born January 27, 1906). The six Vienna railway workers were activists of a communist resistance group during the National Socialist regime. They were transferred to the concentration camp Mauthausen in July 1942 and were severely mistreated there. One of the six died as a result of these mistreatment, while the other five were executed on July 16, 1942. Their ashes were buried at the site of the memorial stone on July 20, 1946, and a memorial was erected two years later. The memorial consists of seven stone pillars, with the six outer ones naming the names and birth dates of the honored individuals.