Univ.-Prof. Dr. Eduard Grünewald

Shortly before the end of the war, on 9 February 1945, Eduard Grünewald joins the underground student fraternity Alpinia Innsbruck. Together with other brothers of the Federation and Cartell - members of the student fraternity Austria Innsbruck were also active in the underground - he took part in resistance actions against the Nazi rulers, such as distributing strictly forbidden materials [leaflets of the "Weisen Rose" etc.], smear campaigns with anti-Nazi slogans or passing on militarily important information to the Allies via secret transmitters. Following contacts with Group 05 [for OE = Austria], Eduard Grünewald formed the resistance group Grünewald-Mair with his former English teacher at the Humanist Grammar School in Innsbruck.

In mid-April 1945, the Gestapo was able to round up some of the Tyrolean resistance groups, and so Eduard Grünewald was also arrested on April 27, 1945 and sent to the Reichenau internment camp after difficult interrogations at the Gestapo headquarters in Innsbruck. On May 2, 1945, the resistance groups in the police units in particular succeeded in freeing the imprisoned resistance fighters from the Reichenau camp. On 3 May, Eduard Grünewald and his confederate brother Alfred Hirsch raised a red-white-red flag on the Stadtwerke high-rise building in Salurner Straße in the center of Innsbruck under heavy fire from the SS before storming the Tyrolean Landhaus, which was still occupied by the Nazis, together with other resistance fighters. An official appeal written by Eduard Grünewald proclaims the liberation and resurrection of Austria on posters and over the radio.

He worked as a psychologist after the war.