The Siegfriedskopf "Siegfried’s Head" (now desecrated) WW1 memorial by Josef Müllner 1923

August 07, 2020

The Siegfriedskopf "Siegfried’s Head" (now desecrated) WW1 memorial by Josef Müllner 1923

A memorial statue to fallen WW1 soldiers that was damaged, dismantled, and thrown in a transparent box in 2006. The two saboteurs, Bele Marx & Gilles Mussard, then scribbled graffiti over it in an attempt to corrupt the memory of the dead it was meant to honor. There are few things more perverted than desecrating memorials to the dead. This is anti-German, pure and simple.

"The ‘Siegfried’s Head’ was commissioned from the sculptor Josef Müllner by the German Student Fraternity in honour of the members of the university who fell in the First World War and was placed in the main entrance hall of the University of Vienna. The sculpture has been an object of controversy for decades, because Müllner and the fraternity who commissioned it are linked to an anti-Semitic, German nationalist and anti-liberal way of thinking.

The marble base of the monument bears the inscription ‘Honour, Freedom, Fatherland / 1914–1918 / To the Heroes of the University Who Fell In Honour / Erected by the German Student Fraternity and Their Teachers’. From 1919 the German Student Fraternity acted as a cover organisation for all students from Germany, Austria and the Sudetenland. Members had to have German ancestry and German as their mother tongue. Jewish, female, Social Democrat and Liberal students were excluded from membership and representation."

-taken from habsburger