Ernst Wirth-Purtscheller jun.

Ernst Wirth-Purtscheller Jr. is arrested and imprisoned together with his father immediately after the Anschluss on March 13, 1938. He is released after 14 days. From the beginning of 1939, he was involved with other Arminians in recruiting for the Klosterneuburg resistance group of the canon Roman Scholz, but was drafted into the Wehrmacht in the same year and was thus able to avoid arrest. During his service, he came into contact with the Austrian resistance movement via Walter de Comtes and Karl Gruber and worked there. From May 1944, he stayed in Vienna until March 1945 thanks to falsified medical certificates and was part of the leading group of the democratic Austrian resistance movement.