Ministerialrat Dr. Karl Lager

Karl Lager was born as the son of Karl Lager, an employee of the Austrian Federal Insurance Institute. Camp attends the Volksschule der Schulbrüder in Vienna-Fünfhaus, then the sub-level of the Piaristen-Gymnasium (Wien-Josefstadt) and the upper level of the Gymnasium in Vienna-Hietzing (Fichtnergasse), where he takes the maturation examination in March 1939. In the period before 1938 he is engaged in the fatherland front and in the Austrian Young People.

Shortly after his Matura, Karl Lager is arrested for high treason or for the offense against the Heimtückegesetz, some time is imprisoned in the Vienna Gestapo Prison (Hotel Metropole) and then in the Krems District Court until July 1939. As the Matura certificate is withdrawn from it, it enters the financial service in September 1939. On 1 October 1939, he will be admitted to the Norica student association in underground and illegality.

In March 1940 Karl Lager was moved to the German Wehrmacht. After his basic training in Theresienstadt (Czech Terezin, then Protektorat Böhmen and Mähren), he is transferred to East Prussia. From there, he joins the Russian campaign as part of the Northern Army Group (217th Infantry Division) and runs with his unit to St. Petersburg (Leningrad). A few days after the end of the war, he arrives in the space of the Piave in U.S. captivity, from where he could return to Vienna for illness in September 1945.

After that, Karl Lager begins studying history and geography at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Vienna (University examination 1950). After a short time as a working student at the Bundeskammer der Gewerbe Wirtschaft, he completed the trial year at the University of Vienna-Alsergrund (Wasagasse) in 1951/52. After a short period of unemployment he found a job at the Realgymnasium in Vienna-Penzing (Astgasse) in 1953. Later he moved to the Office for Wehrpolitik of the Ministry of Defence.