Austria Turns Hitler's Birthplace Into A Police Station
Braunau am Inn's new police center opened July 22, 2026, nine years after Parliament voted in 2017 to expropriate the site.
- Interior Minister Gerhard Karner presided over the opening alongside Governor Thomas Stelzer and Mayor Johannes Waidbacher.
- A 2016 expert commission preceded the 2019 decision to convert the house into a police station.
- Forty-six officers serve the district; seventeen staff the Braunau post covering 20,000 residents over 47.74 square kilometers.
Why it matters: A state that cannot erase a symbol occupies it instead, and calls the occupation closure.
Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI) press release via OTS ↗ · Jul 22, 20267/22/26