Dr. Georg von Zimmer-Lehmann

Georg von Zimmer-Lehmann becomes a member of the student fraternity Starhemberg in Vienna in 1936.

After the occupation of Austria by the Third Reich, he soon became involved in the Catholic-conservative-legitimist resistance and became leader of the monarchist 'Österreichischer Kampfbund' (ÖK), which distributed leaflets and carried out sabotage campaigns. After the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944, the resistance movement '05'

The meetings take place at Palais Auersperg in Vienna, where the owner Christiane Croy has provided them with premises. The palace becomes the headquarters of '05'. Leaflet campaigns call on the population to support the advancing Soviet army. In order to spare Vienna a fate similar to that which had befallen the long-fought and largely destroyed Budapest, Major Carl Szokoll, together with the military resistance group within the Army District Command XVII, developed a plan to surrender Vienna to the Red Army without a fight. On April 3, 1945, contact was made with the Soviet command under Marshal Fyodor Tolbuchin. The group '05' and the military resistance collaborated and supported the 'Operation Radetzky', which was betrayed shortly before its execution on the night of 5/6 April. Georg von Zimmer-Lehmann, is involved in the planning and actively collaborates.