Schwester M. Gualberta (Josefine) Krenn FDC

Josefine Krenn was born in Aflenz, the daughter of civil servant Otto and Franziska. She attended the elementary school in St. Andrä in Lavanttal, which belonged to the Congregation of the Daughters of Divine Love, and then the teacher training college in Troppau. On September 12, 1896, she entered the Congregation of the Daughters of Divine Love and was given the religious name M. Gualberta. In 1900, she graduated from high school and then began teaching at the convent school in Troppau. She later moved to the Marienanstalt in Vienna to teach there.

After the occupation of Austria by National Socialist Germany in March 1938, convent schools were banned in the fall of 1938. Sr. M. Gualberta is then entrusted with the care and supervision of the girls in the Marienanstalt, where she becomes superior.

As an opponent of National Socialism, she listens with her fellow sisters M. Genesia Rychetzky, Sr. M. Aniceta Schiefelbein, Sr. M. Ewalda Schenk, Sr. M. Immaculata Schleimer and Sr. M. Meinrada Wleklo together with residents of the "Jacquingasse" ladies' hostel attached to the Marienanstalt and the Redemptorist priest Anton Pauk, the banned station "Radio Vatican". During the interrogation of Sr. M. Immaculata Schleimer by the Gestapo for passing on a mocking poem about Adolf Hitler, she mentions listening to the forbidden radio station together.

On November 22, 1939, Sr. M. Gualberta Krenn is arrested by the Gestapo for listening to an "enemy radio station". She is imprisoned by the Gestapo and in the provincial court and is released on May 31, 1940.

After her release from prison, Sr. M. Gualberta remains in Bergen until the end of the war, then becomes a teacher again at the Marienanstalt and later at the agricultural college in Hochstrass and the superior of the Congregation of the Daughters of Divine Love there. She died there in 1953.