DI Jaro Sterbik-Lamina

Jaro Sterbik-Lamina's first name is officially Jaroslav. He visits the Bundesgymnasium in Vienna-Döbling (Gymnasiumstraße), where he joined Ostaricia in 1919. After his Matura in 1922 he began studying at the Faculty of Law and State Sciences of the University of Vienna, where he became a member of the student association Nibelungia in Vienna. Jaro Sterbik-Lamina will soon be studying and studying at the Technical University in Freiburg/Switzerland (Dipl.-Ing. 1926). After his return, Jaro Sterbik-Lamina can be settled in Klosterneuburg and enters the service of the Lower Austrian State Government (Landesreinigungsdienst).

Jaro Sterbik-Lamina is a major contributor to the establishment of the umbrella organisation for Catholic middle school connections, the Mittelschüler Kartellverband (MKV). The founding of this association will take place within the framework of the Catholic Day (8 to 12). September 1933) and finally founded on 9 September 1933 at the Wiener Casino Zögernitz (Döblinger Hauptstraße). From the outset, the commitment to Austria and the fight against National Socialism was a central part of the newly founded umbrella organisation and its member relations. First president was Jaro Sterbik-Lamina. After the connection in 1938, Jaro Sterbik-Lamina is forced to dissolve the association.

On February 6th, 1939, he was interrogated by the Gestapo and was arrested for a short time. In the document archive of the Austrian Resistance (DÖW), an act of recognition-service treatment is recorded “non-governmental activity” and “Reichsbeamter”. Further documents are not available. As a result, he will be convened to the German Wehrmacht.

After the war, Wilhelm Schmied organizes the reorganisation of the MKV and is elected as a cartel leader because Jaro Sterbik-Lamina is not yet back from captivity. As a result, Jaro Sterbik-Lamina is elected as honorary cartel leader.

Jaro Sterbik-Lamina, after the war, also introduces the professional career of a tax advisor and accountant, then withdraws from the Austrian national service and becomes managing director of the “Nordost” trust and organizational gmbH.