Trofaiach is a municipality in the Leoben district of the state of Styria in Austria, the site of a post World War II British sector displaced persons camp. Sons and daughters of the town Josef Forster (1838-1917), composer, he wrote several, at that time successful, but now forgotten operas Hellmuth Stachel (born 1942), grew up in Trofaiach, Austrian mathematician and professor of geometry at the Vienna University of Technology. Hannes Arch (1967-2016), aerobatics pilot, first Austrian participant in the Red Bull Air Race Series Monika Maierhofer (born 1967), former ski racer References Cities and towns in Leoben District Displaced persons camps in the aftermath of World War II