Adolf Fedor Sollinger

Adolf Fedor Sollinger graduated from the Staats-Realschule in Vienna 6 in July 1918 and studied mechanical engineering at the Vienna University of Technology for six semesters between 1918 and 1921. In 1919, he becomes a member of the student fraternity Norica. He had to drop out of university for financial reasons and became a design engineer at the state railroad locomotive works. During a pilgrimage to Rome in April 1925, he terminated his employment contract and began supplementary studies in Latin, Greek and philosophy at the University of Vienna in 1925. During this time, he was a sub-prefect at the Canisiuswerk boys' seminary in Vienna 13 (OberSt. Veit). In February 1927, he passed a supplementary school-leaving examination in these subjects. From 1926 to 1931, Adolf Fedor Sollinger studied theology at the University of Vienna and was ordained a priest in Vienna in 1931.

Until 1936, he was chaplain and parish provisor in Ernstbrunn, Lower Austria and in Vienna 11 (Kaiser-Ebersdorf). From 1936 to 1941, he worked as a chaplain in Vienna 17 (Hernals), was a district youth chaplain from 1937 to 1941 and a religion teacher at the Federal Teaching and Research Institute for the Chemical Industry in Vienna 17 until 1938.

During a youth hike in Warth (Vorarlberg), Chaplain Adolf Fedor Sollinger was arrested, transferred to Vienna, but then released from Gestapo custody. 1941-1942 he is a priest in Poysdorf, Lower Austria. His predecessors in office, Pastor Jakob Zeggl and Pastor Franz Romstorfer, were arrested. In May 1942, Lieutenant Römer in Poysdorf (who he believes to have been a gendarmerie officer) charges him with high treason after a Pentecost sermon. Adolf Fedor Sollinger was warned, evaded arrest and handed himself in to the Gestapo in Vienna. Once again, the charges had no immediate consequences.