Gedenktafel Wanda Lanzer / Wanda-Lanzer-Hof

On September 8, 2017, the Vienna Municipal Council's committee for housing, housing construction, and urban renewal renamed the residential complex at Speisinger Straße in honor of the social democratic journalist and librarian Wanda Lanzer (1896–1980). After completing her studies in political science, Wanda Lanzer became a pioneer in adult education at the Vienna Workers' Chamber. Following the National Socialists' takeover and the "Anschluss" of Austria to the German Reich in 1938, the Lanzer family's home was searched. Afterwards, her husband Felix Lanzer disappeared without a trace and was officially declared dead in 1951. Due to her political convictions and her Jewish heritage, Wanda Lanzer was doubly endangered. Through the intervention of the Swedish social democrat and foreign minister Rickard Sandler, Wanda Lanzer was able to emigrate with her younger daughter to Stockholm in April 1939. She only returned to Vienna in 1964 and worked as an archivist for the Vienna Workers' Chamber.