Hofrat Dr. Paul Jäger

Paul Jäger was a founding member of the Siegfriedia Linz secondary school fraternity in 1925. He graduated from the commercial academy in Linz and began studying at the University of World Trade in Vienna in 1927, graduating in 1932 with a degree in business administration. At the same time, he studied law at the University of Innsbruck, where he received his doctorate in law in 1933. After a year in court in Feldkirch and Dornbirn, he joined the Vorarlberg provincial government in 1934.

After the Anschluss, he was arrested in his office as deputy security director of Vorarlberg on March 12, 1938 and held in solitary confinement in Feldkirch. On August 25, 1938, he was initially transferred to Innsbruck and from there to the Dachau concentration camp on September 9, 1938. He stays there for a year. On 27.5.1940, he was called up to Schwaz to join Mountain Engineer Battalion 82 and on 1.9.1940, on the instructions of the Gestapo, he was transferred to the Arctic Ocean, where he saw out the end of the war.