Dr. Friedrich Schweitzer

Friedrich Schweitzer first attended grammar school in Vienna, then moved to Daxberg/OÖ and Klagenfurt. Here he initially became active in the Karantania Klagenfurt secondary school fraternity, but left due to internal difficulties. He then actively supported the reactivation of the Gothia Klagenfurt secondary school fraternity; in 1924, he was also one of the co-founders of the Nibelungia Klagenfurt secondary school fraternity, which later merged with the Gothia fraternity to form Karantania Klagenfurt.

After graduating from high school in 1927, he began studying at the Faculty of Medicine in Vienna. In 1927, he joined the Kürnberg student fraternity. After obtaining his doctorate, he began his residency at the Vienna-Lainz Hospital. He was appointed assistant to Prof. Karl Fellinger at Vienna General Hospital.

After the Anschluss, he was dismissed together with Prof. Fellinger (1904-2000) on August 31, 1938 "due to political unreliability". Until his call-up to the German Wehrmacht on March 1, 1943, he worked as a "poor and coroner's doctor" in Lainz. Here, he actively supported his brother Hans Spitzer in his resistance activities by providing medical care to the Jewish citizens hiding in the Lainz vicarage. He was taken prisoner of war by the British, from which he was released on October 31, 1945.