Braunau checks road racing: Historical stress in the focus!

Braunau checks road racing: Historical stress in the focus!

in Braunau am Inn is seriously discussed about the renaming of roads to personalities, which are closely linked to the National Socialist regime. An officially commissioned scientific report has shown that three of the four street racing in the city have serious historical stress. The analyzed persons, including the composer Josef Reiter and the humorist Franz Resl, are members of a category who have direct connections to crimes during the Nazi region, as ooe.orf.at . In addition, Eduard Kriechbaum, a “Gauheimatpfleger”, also belongs to this group, while Wilhelm Scheuba, a hospital manager, was only classified in the second category.

The Braunau municipal council has already taken note of the report, which deals with the historical background of the street racing, on December 12, 2024. This is part of a more comprehensive examination that in cooperation with the Upper Austria. State archive was carried out and now in -house measures for processing and possibly to be renamed, as braunau.at . The Mauthausen Committee calls on the city to remove the "brown spots" and rename the streets in memory of Nazi victims or resistance fighter. The city government is optimistic that a solution will be found in the foreseeable future to meet historical responsibility.