!!!Granig, Anton

b. Mitten (municipality of Grosskirchheim, Carinthia), Sept. 17, 1901, 
d. Stein an der Donau (Lower Austria), April 15, 1945 (executed), 
priest. Director of the brotherhood of St. Joseph in Klagenfurt; 
sentenced to death on Aug. 11, 1944 for allegedly being a leader of 
the Austrian anti-fascist movement for freedom ("Antifaschistische 
Freiheitsbewegung Oesterreichs") and executed by a firing squad in the 
courtyard of Stein prison.

!Literature
K. v. Vogelsang-Institut (publ.), Gelitten fuer 
Oesterreich, 1988.



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