Dr. Otto Kranzlmayr

Otto Hanns Kranzlmayr graduates from secondary school in Linz, where he joins the Nibelungia Linz secondary school fraternity. After graduating from high school, he went to Vienna to study law. Here he became a member of Austria Wien in 1932. He then moved to Innsbruck, where he obtained his doctorate in law in 1938. Between 1937 and 1938, he also worked under Alfred Maleta as secretary of the Chamber of Workers and Employees for Upper Austria in Linz. Even as a student, he worked in the regional leadership of the VF in Upper Austria.

After the Anschluss, he was briefly taken into Gestapo custody for political reasons. He was then drafted into the German Wehrmacht. He also worked in the resistance group "Geheimgruppe Dr. Lerch".