DI Jaro Sterbik-Lamina

Jaro Sterbik-Lamina's first name is officially Jaroslav. He attended the Bundesgymnasium in Vienna-Döbling (Gymnasiumstraße), where he joined the Ostaricia secondary school fraternity in 1919. After graduating from high school in 1922, he began studying at the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the University of Vienna, where he became a member of the Nibelungia student fraternity in Vienna. However, Jaro Sterbik-Lamina soon changed course and studied at the Technical University in Freiburg/Switzerland (Dipl.-Ing. 1926). After his return, Jaro Sterbik-Lamina settles in Klosterneuburg and enters the service of the Lower Austrian provincial government (provincial accounting service).

Jaro Sterbik-Lamina is instrumental in the founding of the umbrella organization for Catholic secondary school fraternities, the Mittelschüler Kartellverband (MKV). The founding of this association was decided during the Catholic Day (September 8-12, 1933) and finally founded on September 9, 1933 in the Zögernitz Casino (Döblinger Hauptstraße) in Vienna. From the very beginning, the commitment to Austria and the fight against National Socialism was a central component of the newly founded umbrella organization and its member associations. Jaro Sterbik-Lamina became the first chairman. After the Anschluss in 1938, Jaro Sterbik-Lamina was forced to dissolve the association.

On February 6, 1939, he was interrogated by the Gestapo and then briefly arrested. In the file of the identification procedure preserved in the Documentation Archive of Austrian Resistance (DÖW), "anti-state activity" and "Reich official" are noted. No further documents are available. He is subsequently drafted into the German Wehrmacht.

After the war, Wilhelm Schmied organizes the reorganization of the MKV and is elected chairman of the cartel because Jaro Sterbik-Lamina has not yet returned from captivity. Jaro Sterbik-Lamina was subsequently elected honorary chairman of the cartel.