Hofrat Dr. Adolf Rauch

Adolf Rauch attended the Franciscan grammar school in Hall/Tyrol from 1926. After graduating from high school, he completed a one-year voluntary year in the Austrian army in 1935. At the same time, he began his law studies in Innsbruck and joined the student fraternity Vindelicia Innsbruck in 1935.

After the Anschluss, he experienced the measures and attacks by the National Socialists on Catholic student fraternities. He took part in the actions to rescue fraternity property, took a large suitcase with fraternity property, including the fraternity flag, to the Lechtal valley and hid the suitcase under a pile of straw. However, these activities were betrayed. According to information from the Holzgau gendarmerie post, Adolf Rauch also took "all the things" (clubs, caps, files) from the Licatia Elbigenalp holiday fraternity with him. For this reason, he was initially banned from university and then arrested in Innsbruck in the fall. He was taken to Elbigenalp with an SS escort and had to hand over his suitcase to the Gestapo. After another day in detention, he is brought before a special commission. He was only released thanks to the fact that the head of the commission was an acquaintance from his time in the Austrian army. The ban on studying was also lifted. In 1939, he was drafted into the German army.

One incident from this time has been passed down:

"On the various fronts, our brothers proved themselves by supporting each other. Where Cartell and Confederation brothers met, they immediately joined forces. In the winter of 1940/41, for example, Dr. Adolf Rauch from Vindelik was able to organize several commissions in Kirkenes under the code name 'Tyrolean Evenings'. On one occasion, seven different verses were sung."

A study leave enabled him to complete his studies in 1940 with a doctorate in law. In 1945, he managed to escape from the custody of Yugoslav partisans and return home to Tyrol.