Alois Joseph Drimmel

Alois Joseph Drimmel was born in Senftenberg in Lower Austria as the legitimate son of the rolling mill owner Alois Drimmel and Rosalia, née Seeböck. After his school education, he worked as a traveling salesman [Note: A dependent sales assistant in the field working for his employer]. At the age of 14, Alois Drimmel realizes that he is homosexual. At that time, homosexuality was seen as an illness and was also punishable by law. The social ostracism and public legal pressure against homosexuals obviously led to Alois Drimmel developing psychological problems.

In 1924, he lent 4,000 schillings to the future wife of the later NSDAP district leader, which she did not repay despite repeated complaints.

Due to his homosexuality, Alois Drimmel repeatedly came into conflict with the law and was sentenced to four months in prison in 1935 for 'fornication against nature' and to six months in prison in 1937 for 'fornication against nature and violation of public safety'. In 1937, he had himself castrated 'voluntarily' to counteract his homosexuality.

When the German Wehrmacht invaded Austria on March 12, 1938, and the free and independent Austria was destroyed, the husband of the woman he had lent money to in 1924, Paul Slopetzky, became district leader of District IX of the NSDAP. Alois Drimmel pursues him in an almost delusional manner, obviously mixing reality and fiction.

In his delusion, he tries to join the NSDAP, only to find out when he registers that Paul Slopentzky would in any case try to thwart him. He insults the district leader on the phone and reports him to the Gestapo at least seven or eight times. The accusations included the charge of illegal appropriation of Jewish assets.

When he publicly insulted the district leader on a train journey in May 1938, he was arrested and sentenced to three weeks in prison. He then transferred his disapproval to the entire NSDAP and its functionaries, whom he publicly insulted from then on. He was therefore imprisoned from March 15, 1940 to May 4, 1940.

In spite of this, he did not stop berating the NSDAP and its functionaries when he was free. On June 19, 1942, Alois Drimmel was arrested again and admitted to the Am Steinhof sanatorium and nursing home in Vienna-Penzing on August 22, 1942, although according to his medical records, a forced stay was more than doubtful.

Alois Drimmel had to wait until the defeat of the Third Reich and the liberation of Austria until he regained his freedom on May 3, 1945.

After the war, Alois Drimmel remained unemployed. He joins the ÖVP-Kameradschaft der politisch Verfolgten und Bekenner für Österreich. He dies at the age of 61 in Krems an der Donau.