DDr. Maximilian Pammer

Maximilian Pammer studied law and political science in Munich and Innsbruck and joined the Tirolia Innsbruck student fraternity in 1923, later also the Rhenania Innsbruck student fraternity and then the Alemannia Munich student fraternity.

After obtaining his doctorate in law, Maximilian Pammer joined the Tyrolean state government in Innsbruck. As a senior ministerial commissioner in the State Police Office of the Directorate General, he was responsible for public security and combating illegal socialists and National Socialists from 1933. In 1937, he was deputy head of the political department in the General Secretariat of the VF.

After the Anschluss, he was immediately arrested by the Gestapo "because of his upright patriotic stance against National Socialism". He was then transferred to Dachau concentration camp for six months on April 1, 1938 on the "prominent transport" (Gestapo transport list no. 54) and released from there on September 20, 1938. "After the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler in Munich's Hofbräukeller, he was imprisoned again from November 9 to December 5, 1939 on suspicion of anti-state activities. He was then employed at the Army Construction Office in 1942, was drafted into the German Wehrmacht and was deployed as a driver in Athens, and after a back injury was assigned to the army patrol in Vienna.