Dr. Gerald Grinschgl

Gerald Grinschgl visits the Realgymnasium in Graz until 1940. Because of his NS team, he becomes after the connection from 12. March 1938 temporarily detained in police custody, as in September for ten days.

After the Matura 1940 he began studying at the Faculty of Medicine in Graz. Here Gerald Grinschgl comes in contact with the Carolinen senior Gerd Stepantschitz, who wins him for Carolina, where he will be on the ground on the 3rd. June 1941. He must interrupt his studies because he is moved to the German Wehrmacht; at times it is used in Finland. However, he can continue his studies in Graz and then later in Innsbruck as part of a student company.

In the autumn of 1943, Gerald Grinschgl is elected as the local president (VOP) of the ÖCV (representative of all ÖCV connections) in the underground; he remains VOP until February 1946.

According to the case of Stalingrad (31.1/2.2.1943), there is an event in Graz that Gerald Grinschgl describes as follows:

“Three illegal Carolinen, Dr. Stepantschitz, Dr. Liegel and I had decided to cut off the opera ring planted at Graz in a April night of 1943 and over 6 m high levels of help. All three were in uniform of the German Wehrmacht; while I saw the other two guards. The company that had been kissing our head at discovery succeeded fully, and our goal was reached: the whole city already knew in the early hours of the morning of the event, people whispered the message and spoke of falling a symbol, of the fact that trees should not grow into the sky and now will last even longer until this war ends.”

Gerald Grinschgl will be transferred to the Innsbruck student company after the closure of the Graz University. Here he continues to study and is actively involved in the resistance struggle of the last days of war in Innsbruck and in the liberation of the city from the Nazi terror. In 1947 he can finish his medical studies and he is awarded a doctorate.

After the war, he becomes VOP on the 5th. Stiftungsfest awarded the band to Alpinia Innsbruck for its great merits about the inclusion of Alpinias in the ÖCV.