that Maier approached death with a deeply impressive composure. Chaplain Heinrich Maier was beheaded in the Vienna Regional Court on 22 March 1945 at 6.40 p.m. Last words His last words were "Long live Christ, the king! Long live Austria!" (Es lebe Christus, der König! Es lebe Österreich!) Legacy Knowledge of Maier's resistance to the Nazi terror regime was largely suppressed in Austria after the Second World War, partly because he acted against the express instructions of his church superiors, partly because his political plans for a Habsburg constitutional monarchy in Central Europe (according to the plans of Winston Churchill) were sharply rejected by Joseph Stalin and the USSR. This anti-Habsburg course also became part of the constitution of the Austrian State Treaty of 1955 over the imperative efforts of the USSR. Memorials 1945: Memorial Grave (Ehrengrab) in Vienna (Friedhof in Neustift am Walde) 1949: A street in Vienna is named DDr. Heinrich Maier Straße (DDr.Heinrich Maier Street) 1970: Installation of a glass window in the Viennese Votive Church with a scene from the Mauthausen concentration camp, whereby the prisoner with the blessing hand is chaplain Heinrich Maier while hearing a confession next to the death stairs 1988: Commemorative plaque in front of the church Saint Leopold in Vienna 1995: Heinrich Maier Oratorium composed by Gerald Spitzner [Video: http://venite-austria.jimdo.com/heinrich-maier-gedenken/ ] 2018: The Viennese student Maria Merz receives a special Pechmann Prize for her work: "Dr. Heinrich Maier – Ein Wiener Geistlicher im Widerstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus". Books Siegfried Beer: »Arcel/Cassia/Redbird«. Die Widerstandsgruppe Maier-Messner und der amerikanische Kriegsgeheimdienst OSS in Bern, Istanbul und Algier 1943–1944. In: DÖW (Hrsg.): Jahrbuch 1993. Wien 1993, pp 75–100. Herbert Exenberger: Antifaschistischer Stadtführer. Wiener Bildungsausschuß der SPÖ, Wien 1986. Ildefons Manfred Fux: Für Christus und Österreich. Perfectae Caritatis, 2001, ISBN 3-9501402-0-4. Benedicta Maria Kempner: Priester vor Hitlers Tribunalen. Rütten & Loening, München 1966. Franz Loidl: Nochmals Kaplan Heinrich Maier. In: Wiener Katholische Akademie, Arbeitskreis für kirchliche Zeit- und Wiener Diözesangeschichte. Reihe 3, Nr. 172, Wien 1987, pp 27. Norbert Rodt, Anton Hecht, Ernst Degasperi: Zeugnis der Auferstehung. Dokumente und Bilder aus dem Leben des Priesters Heinrich Maier. Tyrolia, Innsbruck / Wien 1995, ISBN 978-3-7022-1981-9. Ralf Siebenbürger: Heinrich Maier – Ein Seelsorger im Widerstand. In: Der Freiheitskämpfer. 63. Jahrgang, Nr. 41, Mai 2014, pp 8–10. Herbert Steiner: Zum Tode verurteilt: Österreicher gegen Hitler. Eine Dokumentation. Europa Verlag, Wien / Köln / Stuttgart / Zürich 1964. Erika Weinzierl: