Memorial Sturm Innsbruck

On 29-2-2024, two Zeitpunkte were placed here for Klara and Alfons STURM.

Klara STURM, born Weiss on 5-11-1898 in Rorschach (Switzerland), died 9-8-1942 in Aichach (Bavaria).
Alfons STURM, born 28-4-1895 in Innsbruck, died 1944-45 in the Mauthausen concentration camp.

Klara was a Swiss citizen who had contact with French secret service agents while living in Switzerland. In 1934 she moved to Innsbruck with the task of setting up a reconnaissance service and reporting troop movements on the German-Austrian border and the spread of the illegal NSDAP in Austria. In November 1936 she met Alfons Sturm in Innsbruck, who agreed to undertake espionage missions to Germany.
When Klara was interrogated by the Austrian police in 1936, she admitted that she had spied for the French secret service. She described herself as a "fanatical democrat" who was determined not to "allow Hitler to one day conquer Austria and Switzerland."
Six weeks after the National Socialists seized power in Austria, the Gestapo arrested the couple on April 27, 1938 and accused them of treason.
On July 4, 1939, the People's Court sentenced Klara to ten years and Alfons to five years.
She died on August 9, 1942 in the Aichach prison in Bavaria.
In February 1944, Alfons was taken to Dachau, in August he was deported to Mauthausen, subcamp Linz III. He died there, date unknown.

The city of Innsbruck has taken a new path when it comes to commemorations.
On January 27, 2024, International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust, the new project "Zeitpunkte" was presented.
A hand-made bronze disc with a diameter of approximately eight centimeters and a thickness of three centimeters is mounted at eye level on light poles or posts in the immediate vicinity of the last freely chosen place of residence of the victims of the Nazi dictatorship. The person's name is on the round plaque, the "Zeitpunkt".
The inscription is engraved and sealed.
The attached QR code refers to the website www.zeitspitzen.at, where information about the biographies and locations can be found in several languages.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Wim Wouters