Dr. Rudolf Schiessl

Rudolf Schiessl attends the Franciscan grammar school in Hall/Tyrol and joins the Sternkorona Hall secondary school fraternity in 1935. Under his leadership as chairman, preparations for the 50th foundation festival, which was to be celebrated from June 11 to 13, 1938, were in full swing. Instead, however, after the occupation of Austria in March 1938, the fraternity is forced to cease operations. As chairman of the fraternity, he was questioned twice by the police and summoned by the "decommissioning commissioner" [probably a representative of the "decommissioning commissioner" for clubs, organizations and associations] appointed for the Sternkorona Hall.

After graduating from high school in 1939 - the Franciscan grammar school had meanwhile become a secondary school for boys - Rudolf Schiessl began his teacher training, majoring in biology, initially at the University of Vienna, as the University of Innsbruck was temporarily closed in the winter semester of 1939/40. He continued his studies in Innsbruck and on November 17, 1939, he was accepted into the Leopoldina university fraternity, which had been officially dissolved but was still secretly active underground. Rudolf Schiessl began teaching at the secondary school in Hall in 1943. During the final weeks of the Second World War, he joined the Hall resistance group led by Anton Haller together with Gottfried Pfeifauf.