Karl Kremel

Karl Kremel is born as the son of an official servant in Vienna Alsergrund. He visits the Volks-, Bürger- and later the Handelsschule and is then employed as a private employee. In 1915, he was moved into the First World War and put on the Russian and later on the Albanian front, where he was wounded and lost an eye.

After the war, he works as a private officer and accountant. He is a member of the fatherland front. Towards the end of 1938, he becomes a Wehrmacht worker.

About Vinzenz Hauser Karl Kremel learns the Lamerti Round at the end of 1941, named after the Vienna Gastwirt Franz Lambert [today: PÜRSTNER]. From mid 1942 – the Lamberti Round was already the Anti-fascist freedom movement of Austria (AFÖ) – he is a frequent visitor of the regular table around the lawyer Karl Wanner. There they discuss the end of the III. Rich and share information about the warfare that was part of the “finisher”. Karl Kremel also reports on the shooting of a flag fleet in Rossauer Kaserne.

Karl Kremel will be on 24. February 1943 arrested by the Gestapo and on the 15th August 1944 sentenced by the Volksgerichtshof in Vienna for “Rundfunkverbruchs” and “Unterlassener Krimsanzeige” to 7 years of breeding house. It is up to 25. April 1945 (end of war) in custody.

Karl Kremel dies in Vienna in 1974.