Karl Kremel

Karl Kremel was born in Vienna Alsergrund, the son of a civil servant. He attended primary school, secondary school and later commercial school and was then employed as a private civil servant (clerk). In 1915, he was drafted into the First World War and deployed to the Russian and later the Albanian front, where he was wounded and lost an eye.

After the war, he worked as a private civil servant and accountant. He is a member and official of the Patriotic Front. Towards the end of 1938, he becomes an employee of the Wehrmacht.

At the end of 1941, Karl Kremel gets to know the Lamerti-Runde, named after the Viennese innkeeper Vinzenz Hauser [today: PÜRSTNER], via Franz Lambert. From mid-1942 - the Lamberti group had already joined the Antifascist Freedom Movement of Austria (AFÖ) - he was a frequent visitor to the regulars' table around the lawyer Karl Wanner. There they discuss the end of the Third Reich and share information about the course of the war heard on "enemy radio". Karl Kremel also reported on the shooting of a deserter in the Rossau barracks.

Karl Kremel was arrested by the Gestapo on February 24, 1943 and sentenced to 7 years in prison by the People's Court in Vienna on August 15, 1944 for "broadcasting crimes" and "failure to report a crime". He was imprisoned until April 25, 1945 (end of the war).