Dr. Georg Lexer

Georg Lexer is born as son of the Kärntner Gendarmeriepostenkommandanten, Georg Lexer. After visiting the Volksschule in Greifenburg, he moved to the apprenticeship home for priests, the “Marianum” in Klagenfurt. Because of a “discipline difficulty” he is excluded from the boarding school, but not from the college. Soon after he enters Marian Student Congregation . The occupation of Austria is experienced by the Lexer family due to the tragic fate of his father.

His father Georg is involved in the Nazi coup attempt at Klagenfurt in July 1934 in bloody struggles. There are also dead among the Nazis and governmental troops.

In February 1938 he suffers from severe pneumonia. Dismissed in house care, Gendarmariepostenkommandant Georg Lexer is released from 11 to 12 at night. March, although fiebering and bed-ridden, arrested by his own submissive gendarmes, who already carry hook-and-seat armbands during arrest, and delivered to the local court prisoner Klagenfurt. In a trial before the Nazi People's Court, he will have committed a murder at the battles of a Nazi in July 1934. The proceedings before the People’s Court are terminated, inter alia, because of the reasoning “in a war will inevitably be shot” (a statement by the Chair Judge). Georg Lexer, however, is not released, but is taken over by the Gestapo and in September 1938 into the KZ Buchenwald delivered where he was on 3. August 1941.

Georg Lexer and his one-year-old brother are harassed on the one hand by many, and on the other hand they have to work next to the school, as they have no financial resources after the father's arrest. In his penultimate school year in 1939, Georg Lexer reports himself as a streetcar enthusiast.

Around Easter 1941 he learns the Blessed One of the Air Force and opponents of the NS regime Eduard Pumpernig know. He and his brother come over him Wunibald with the Anti-fascist freedom movement of Austria (AFÖ) in contact. There are many cospirative meetings and drawings of Wehrmachtsanlagen are also created. Together with Eduardernig, he grinds to 12 on the night of 11 July 1941. July 1941 Parolen like “Down with Hitler!”, “Austria awaken!” or “Preußen out!” on house walls in Klagenfurt and remove hook cross flags from houses. During an excursion towards Gailtal, where escape routes are to be explored to Italy, there is a break between Edurard Pumpernig and Georg Lexer. Georg teaches his mother and his brother, but the first gives him too little faith.

In 1941, Georg and Wunibald volunteer to become a military service. Georg Lexer is moved to the Navy and can start his studies in medicine at the Marine Medical Academy in Strasbourg.

After the anti-fascist movement of Austria (AFÖ), Georg Lexer is heard by the Gestapo in Klagenfurt and Vienna and finally accused by the Volksgerichtshof in Strasbourg in 1944 for preparation for high treason. He is referred to as a politically unreliable Academy.

In the wars of the year 1945, he manages to escape arrest, strike through Carinthia and hide until the end of the war.

After the war, he resumes his studies, earns his doctorate in Innsbruck in 1947 and becomes a specialist and hospital manager in Carinthia. For many years, he is a landlord ÖVP Combating the Politically Persecuted and Bekenner for Austria in Carinthia.