Mag. Hermann Käfer

Hermann Käfer attends grammar school in Korneuburg and Stockerau. At Whitsun 1919, he was involved in the reactivation of the Korneuburg secondary school fraternity Marko-Danubia. After graduating from high school in 1919, he began studying history and geography at the University of Vienna. On May 15, 1919, he became a member of the Danubia student fraternity in Vienna. In 1923, he passed the teacher training examination. From 1923 to 1938, he worked as a professor at the teacher training college and head of the boarding school in St. Pölten. Together with Julius Kalbs, he wrote the "Lehrbuch der Geschichte für Lehrer- und Lehrerinnenbildungsanstalten" (History textbook for teacher training colleges), which was later placed on the "list of harmful and undesirable literature" by the National Socialists and therefore banned. In St. Pölten, he is also politically active as a member of the local council and as the head of the VF organization.

After the Anschluss, Hermann Käfer is arrested at the end of May 1938 because of the aforementioned textbook and transferred to the Dachau concentration camp on 17 June 1938. From there, he was transferred to Flossenbürg concentration camp on September 27, 1939, from where he was released on March 2, 1940.