Hofrat Dr. Walter Resch

Walter Resch is a member of the secondary school fraternity Rugia-Röschitz in Retz from 1934. He graduated from high school in Waidhofen an der Thaya in 1937 and then studied law and political science in Vienna from the winter semester of 1937/38. From December 1, 1937, he worked as an employee of the City of Vienna at the educational institution for young people in Eggenburg alongside his studies in order to finance his law studies.

After the Nazi occupation of Austria, he was taken into protective custody on March 12, 1938, and after his release, he was immediately dismissed as an educator on the instructions of the district leadership of the NSDAP in Horn and resigned on April 30, 1938. In order to be able to continue his studies, he applied for a military deferment for students and "volunteered" for the Reich Labor Service (RAD). He was then drafted into the RAD camp in Pattenbrunn near St. Pölten from June to September 1938. As he was deemed "politically unreliable", he did not receive a certificate of good character, as required for further studies, despite completing his labor service. No enrolment at the university without a certificate of good character, no military deferment without proof of enrolment at the Zwettl military district command. This prevented him from continuing his studies.

On October 7, 1938, Walter Resch took part in the large youth demonstration on the occasion of the Feast of the Rosary in St. Stephen's Cathedral. On November 11, 1938, he was drafted into the air intelligence unit in Potsdam-Eiche. As a radio operator, he often had the opportunity to pass on information. His resistance activities were directed against the NSDAP and the Gestapo, but not against the Wehrmacht and the German people. In mid-April 1945, he had to go into hiding in Berlin. On his escape to the west, he was taken prisoner in Poland around 29 April 1945.

After the war, he joined the student fraternity Rhaeto-Danubia and the ÖVP-Kameradschaft der politisch Verfolgten und Bekenner für Österreich and is a civil servant and court councillor with the Lower Austrian provincial government. He finally retires in this function. He died in Vienna at the age of 71.