Karl Knittel

Karl Knittel was born in Holzgau in Tyrol as the son of the teacher Franz Joseph Knittel and his wife Rosa Maria. After school he enters the seminary and becomes on 30. June 1915 consecrated to the priest. He is then a co-operator in Neustift im Stubaital, Pounds, Flirsch, Tarrenz and St. Nikolai in Innsbruck. In 1928, in Haiming am Achensee, he founded a holiday home for Tbc-sick children and becomes a schoolbeneficiate in Absam. In addition, he becomes a diocesan presence of the Federation of Jungtirolers. As a result, the holiday home in Achensee develops into a general holiday home for Tyrolean, but also Viennese youth. In this time he becomes a member of the student connection Austria.

In these functions he experienced the fall of Austria by the invasion of the German Wehrmacht in March 1938. Immediately afterwards, he is immediately arrested by the Gestapo for a short time. In 1940 he became a priest of Trins.

7. In April 1941 he was arrested by the Gestapo in Innsbruck. Unfortunately, why does not emerge from the documents, after the Gestapo arrests him, can be assumed by a political background. After his release on 26. April 1941 he is under constant supervision by the Gestapo.

As a pastor of Trins, Karl Knittel experienced the liberation of Austria in May 1945. He dies soon after in June 1946. He's buried in Trins.