Dr. Walter Pultar

Walter Pultar attended the Stiftsgymnasium in Seitenstetten, Lower Austria, where he joined the secondary school fraternity Udonia Seitenstetten. After graduating from the Schottengymnasium in Vienna in 1934, he began studying medicine and became a member of the student fraternity Norica in 1934.

Immediately after the Anschluss, he was arrested on 13 March 1938 - like his brother Erich Pultar; his house was searched on 14 March 1938. On April 1, 1938, he and 15 other ÖCV members, including his brother Erich, were transferred from Austria to Dachau concentration camp on the first transport, the so-called 'Prominent Transport'. However, he was only released on March 13, 1939 - allegedly due to indiscipline - together with Engelbert Dworak, Edwin Grabherr and Rudolf Kloss. He was then drafted into the German Wehrmacht and was taken prisoner of war by the Americans, from which he only returned on March 14, 1946.

After the war, he completed his studies in 1949 with a doctorate in medicine in Graz, where he joined the student council. He joined the student fraternity Carolina Graz and the ÖVP-Kameradschaft der politisch Verfolgten und Bekenner für Österreich