Dr. Gottfried Pfeifauf

Gottfried Pfeifauf attended the Franciscan grammar school in Hall/Tyrol and joined the Sternkorona Hall secondary school fraternity in 1932. After graduating from high school in 1934, he began studying to become a teacher of Latin and German at the University of Innsbruck and joined the Leopoldina student fraternity in 1934. After completing his studies with a doctorate in 1938 and the teaching examination in 1939, he was drafted into the German Wehrmacht.

He was seriously wounded while serving on the Arctic Ocean front and was discharged from the Wehrmacht after a long stay in hospital.

In the 1944/45 school year, he was able to start teaching at the then secondary school in Hall. There he joined the resistance group around Anton Haller - together with Rudolf Schissl - in the final weeks of the Second World War.

From the 1945/46 school year, he was initially able to teach as a grammar school professor at the re-established Franciscan grammar school in Hall, then briefly at the Sillgasse girls' grammar school in Innsbruck and from 1954 at the Angerzellgasse federal grammar school in Innsbruck [today's Akademisches Gymnasium]. A serious illness in the 1963/64 school year led to his early death at the age of 52.