Trofaiach is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in the Leoben district of the state of Styria in

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

, the site of a post

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

British sector

displaced persons camp A refugee camp is a temporary settlement built to receive refugees and people in refugee-like situations. Refugee camps usually accommodate displaced people who have fled their home country, but camps are also made for internally displaced peop ...

Sons and daughters of the town

* Josef Forster (1838-1917), composer, he wrote several, at that time successful, but now forgotten operas *

Hellmuth Stachel Hellmuth Stachel (born October 6, 1942 in Graz, Austria) is an Austrian mathematician, a Professor of Geometry at the Technical University of Vienna, who is known due to his contributions to geometry, kinematics and computer-aided design. Biogr ...

(born 1942), grew up in Trofaiach, Austrian mathematician and professor of geometry at the Vienna University of Technology. *

Hannes Arch Hannes Arch (22 September 1967 – 8 September 2016) was an Austrian pilot who competed in the Red Bull Air Race World Championship from 2007 to 2016. Arch won the World Championship in the 2008 season. Early life Hannes Arch was born in Le ...

(1967-2016), aerobatics pilot, first Austrian participant in the Red Bull Air Race Series * Monika Maierhofer (born 1967), former ski racer

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Cities and towns in Leoben District Displaced persons camps in the aftermath of World War II {{Styria-geo-stub