Dr. Otto Kranzlmayr

Otto Kranzlmayr

Personalia

Born:

November 17, 1911, Linz

Died:

May 4, 1972, Reed

Profession:

Public prosecutor

Persecution:

Arrested March 1938,
Resistance fighter (undiscovered)

Memberships

K.Ö.St.V. Austria Wien, K.Ö.St.V. Nibelungia 1901 Linz, Secret group Gottfried Lerch

Curriculum Vitae

Otto Hanns Kranzlmayr graduated from the Realgymnasium in Linz, where he joined the middle school compound Nibelungia Linz. After the Matura he goes to Vienna to study law. Here he becomes a member of Austria Vienna in 1932. He then moved to Innsbruck and received his doctorate in 1938. He also works between 1937 and 1938 under Alfred Maleta as secretary of the Chamber for Workers and Employees for Upper Austria in Linz. He already works as a student in the leadership of the VF in OÖmit.

After that he is briefly taken to Gestapohaft for political reasons. He is then moved to the German Wehrmacht. He also works in the resistance group Dr. Lerch.

After the war, he can retrieve his court year and works as a prosecutor at the Landesgericht Linz, but then changes to the District Court Ried im Innkreis, where he rises to the First Public Prosecutor. He is also a National Council member in 1953–1972 and a State Secretary in the Interior Ministry in 1961–1963.

Places

Residence:

Adalbert Stifter Straße 15 (Ried im Innkreis)

Citations

Krause, Peter/Reinelt, Herbert/Schmitt, Helmut (2020): Farbe tragen, Farbe bekennen. Katholische Korporierte in Widerstand und Verfolgung. Teil 2. Kuhl, Manfred (ÖVfStG, Wien) S. 182.; Photo: ÖVfStg

Otto Kranzlmayr

Public prosecutor
* November 17, 1911
Linz
† May 4, 1972
Reed
Detention, Resistance fighter (undiscovered)