Ministerialrat Mag. Rudolf Kirchmayer

Rudolf Kirchmayer joined the student fraternity Rudolfina as a one-year volunteer in 1936. In the fall of 1937, he began studying law at the University of Vienna.

After the Anschluss, he managed to rescue various fraternity paraphernalia. After Rudolfina's last senior (association chairman) was drafted into the Wehrmacht, he was elected senior at an illegal event. The fraternity is now maintained in his apartment. His studies are made very difficult and so he applies for a student job. He is placed in the Fünfhaus tax office, where he has to issue tax clearance certificates for Jewish refugees from the Reich, among other things. Here he was able to help many people.

In August 1939, Rudolf Kirchmayer was drafted into the Wehrmacht. On November 28, 1941, he was taken into custody on the Eastern Front and sent to the Borisov Wehrmacht prison for making critical remarks about the Hitler regime. On March 2, 1942, he was sentenced to three years in prison. After spending time in various Wehrmacht prisons, he was sent to a field prisoner unit for "punishment under difficult conditions" and was deployed in a hydrogenation plant and in the marshes of Wolchov. Weighing 46 kg, he was then sent to an inquisitorial hospital. After some time, he was cured to such an extent that he was sent on further missions. One of these was in the Eifel, where he managed to escape during the Allied advance on February 2, 1945. He makes his way to Vienna and survives as a "submarine" in various military hospitals until the end of the war.

On May 18, 1945, he invites people to Rudolfina's first event while he is still a senior citizen.