Ministerialrat Dr. Viktor Kolassa
Personalia
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Persecution:
Imprisonment 02.11.1938 - 30.03.1939,
Imprisonment 23.08.1944 - 06.10.1944
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Curriculum Vitae
Born in Gleiwitz, Viktor Kolassa went to Vienna to study law after graduating from high school and became a member of the student fraternity Nordgau Wien in 1900. In 1926, he was appointed chairman of the academics section of the Gewerkschaft Christlicher Angestellter im öffentlichen Dienst. 1929-1934 he is the last General Secretary of the Christian Social Party. In 1930 he was elected Second President of the Vienna Provincial Parliament. With the mandate of the CSP, he was a member of the National Council from 1932-1934.
After the Anschluss, he was briefly arrested twice in March 1938 and then remanded in custody from November 2, 1938 to March 30, 1939. After the failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944, he was again imprisoned in the Elisabethpromenade police prison
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Citations
- Fritz, Herbert/Krause, Peter (2013): Farbe tragen, Farbe bekennen 1938–45. Katholisch Korporierte in Widerstand und Verfolgung. (ÖVfStG, 2013), p. 376.
Photo: ÖVfStG
