Anton Plattner OPraem

Anton Plattner is the last chairman of the Brixen student fraternity Unitas (1919-1921) and studies theology in Brixen as a member of the Augustinian canons' monastery in Neustift near Brixen. He was forced to leave South Tyrol and his monastery after the Italian fascists came to power and came to Innsbruck in 1923, where he joined the monastery of the Premonstratensian canons in Wilten.

In 1925, he was accepted into the middle school fraternity Amelungia Innsbruck as an "Ehrenbursch". In 1929, Anton Plattner was able to celebrate his first mass in his home parish of Mühlau.

The church services of Anton Plattner, pastor in Innsbruck-Amras since 1937, were very popular. Because of his sermons, he had to endure around seventy interrogations by the Gestapo and twelve house searches. In 1939 and 1941 he was imprisoned in Innsbruck police prison. In 1941 he was to be transferred to Berlin and only the courageous intervention of the Stecher farmer's wife, Maria Mayr, saved him from this. With her mother's cross hanging around her neck, she made it clear to those in charge with the words "[...] if the Führer knew what you were doing [...]" that the priest should be released. Anton Plattner saved the flag for his Amelungia fraternity, which survived the Third Reich sewn into his bedspread - after all, it was a symbol of the community, which managed to reactivate the fraternity with renewed vigor immediately after the war.

Under his chairmanship, the TMV was able to resume its work on 16 June 1945.