Karl Strobl

Karl Strobl comes to the world in Vienna as a marital son of Friedrich Strobl and Emilie, born Harmer. After the Volksschule he visits the High School in Vienna-Hernals. In addition, he is a leader in the parish and the Austrian young people in the 17th century. Viennese municipality Fatherland front :

After the invasion of the German Wehrmacht in Austria, he leads the underground Group Calvarienbergby Alfred Kostelecky with the Group iron comes into contact and is active in ticket, lubrication and sabotage operations. They mainly distribute the sermons of the Bishop of Münster, Clemens August Graf von Galen. In July 1938 the Group iron on and with her also Karl Strobl. From 8 July 1938 to 10. August 1938 he will be imprisoned for the first time and on 31st May 1939 excluded from the middle school. For better camouflage, Group Calvarienberg the German Red Cross.

In the spring of 1940 Karl Strobl gets contact with the Resistance Group Haan, which is revealed by the Gestapo on 16 October 1940. Karl Strobl becomes 21st October 1940 again arrested and held until 18 November 1941. By a special court he will be on 19. November 1941 sentenced to six months imprisonment for secretariat and from 1. January 1942 for ‘Probation’ as navy soldier to the ice sea front.

He is deployed as a combat swimmer against the Russian fleet in the Arctic Ocean. On such missions, to which opponents of the regime were deliberately sent, the chance of survival was almost zero. He survived and was taken prisoner by the Russians, from which he was only released in 1946.

After the liberation of Austria in May 1945, Karl Strobl completed his A-levels as an external student and then studied theology in Vienna. On 2 June 1947, he joined the student fraternity Rudolfina because he had found the Rudolfinen Wilfried Daim, Helmut Gnambs and Hubert Jurasek in the resistance groups. He also became a member of the ÖVP-Kameradschaft der politisch Verfolgten und Bekenner für Österreich. After his ordination to the priesthood in 1952, he first worked as a cooperator (chaplain) in Brunn am Gebirge, Gerasdorf-Süßenbrunn and Schwechat and then as a parish priest in Schleinbach (1959-1989) in the Lower Austrian Weinviertel. Weinviertel. In 1972, he was also assigned the parish of Kronberg.