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Telfs: With an overwhelming majority, the Telfer city council decided on Thursday night to rename two streets that were previously named after convinced Nazis: Franz-Stockmayer-Straße will be named after the famous sculptor and illustrator Walter Pichler, who grew up in the Telfer settlement South Tyrolean is The Norbert-Wallner-Weg is soon named after the legendary Bavarian actress and Telfer honorary bearer, Ruth Drexel, who played a central role in the development of Tyrolean folk shows.
Stockmayer had been mayor of Telfer from 1939 to 1945, before that, even during the period of prohibition, leader of the local group NSDAP. In 1948 he went to. Convicted for complaint: a list he wrote (“Eradication of all traitors, defeatists, and similar minions of the enemy”) included 107 names. After his death in 1976, a street on St. Georgen is named after him.
Franz-Stockmayer-Strasse is named after Walter Pichler
© MG Telfs / Dietrich
Wallner, a teacher at Telfs, was also an illegal National Socialist, then a public education official for Gau Tirol and Vorarlberg, and a cultural officer in the Reich’s propaganda office. Liedgut wrote in the spirit of Nazi ideology with glorifying passages from the war and anti-Semites. In his case, the name wasn’t given until the mid-1990s
BM Christian Härting (Wir für Telfs, WFT) has been planning to change the company name for some time, and there have been several inquiries for years. The review also affects the history of the town hall: Since 2019, there has been an explanatory text in the wedding and meeting room, which has issued ceilings with carved quotes, some of which are in Rune script. Another in the entrance area refers to the facade of the town hall, which is kept in the same style. In both cases, they are relics of the Nazi era, which must be preserved “as a document and a contemporary monument.”
Actress Ruth Drexel.
© MG Telfs / darling
When it comes to the streets, residents are sometimes unhappy with the name change, Härting admitted, but he clearly advocated for “new contemporary names.”
The situation was different for City Councilor Michael Ebenbichler (FPÖ), who voted in the Stockmayer case to change Wallner’s name: in 2007 there was a ceremony in Walls to commemorate Wallner’s 100th birthday, now everything is different, that is not understandable. Especially since residents were informed too quickly. “We should not forget our bad past,” said Ebenbichler, but what the rewriting of a blackboard brings is questionable. His parliamentary colleague, alternate GR Wolfgang Mader, voted against both name changes.
The Telfer Rathaus facade was designed during the Nazi era, the figures show a young Hitler Youth, a BDM girl and a “German mother”.
© MG Telfs / Dietrich
Vice-BM Cornelia Hagele (WFT), on the other hand, called the movement “a very good sign, also in view of the end of the war for 75 years.” Street names are an honor, “not to be given to interested people.” Similarly, WB Vice President Christoph Walch (Greens): “What kind of community council would we be if we said we’d leave it that way, despite what we know today?” At the same time, this would increase the share of women for street names in Telfs by 100%. . The municipality assumes the cost of approximately 5,000 euros. (md)
