Georg Kofler

Georg Kolfler is born as the son of a bandmaster in Fresach near Villach. After his visit to the Volksschule, he works in agriculture until the First World War. On the day of the declaration of war, he voluntarily reports to the k. u.k. army and is used on the Italian front until the end of the war. After the war, he will be a gendarme.

In the July-Putsch attempt of the National Socialists in July 1934, when Chancellor Dollfuß is murdered, Georg Kofler is wounded by National Socialists and must then retire.

At the beginning of the Second World War, he starts working again and becomes accountants at the Kosmos-Versicherungs-Gesellschaft in Klagenfurt. In March 1943 Georg Kofler Franz Bernthaler with Karl Loßmann. The three want to produce leaflets, create them abroad and spread them via radio. Georg Kofler also tells his colleague Sophie Jörg vonin whose family the head of the AFÖ, Father Anton Granig queue. Sophie Jörgl tells Anton Granig about these plans, which he not only supports but also promotes.

Georg Kofler subsequently acts as a middleman, who receives the signatures of Karl Loßmann and sends them to Franz Bernthaler Ferdinand Frodl continue. They are to be smuggled to the plan via the Päpstiche Nuntiatiur abroad. This does not happen, since Ferdinand Frodl destroys them.

On 24. August 1943 Georg Kofler was arrested by the Gestapo. He spends more than a year in the detention centre at the Rossau justice centre in Vienna. The trial against him and twelve other members of the AFÖ would have been on 20. July 1944, but the assassination of Adolf Hitler on the same day is crucial that the trial on the 11th August 1944 is postponed. He is accused of “final benefit” and sentenced to death.

By April 1945, Georg Kofler sits in the death cell of the Vienna court building. When the Red Army is just a few kilometers ahead of Vienna, he and 45 others will be sentenced to death at night from 4th to 5th. April 1945 sent to a death march over Stockerau and Maissau to Krems, where the group on the 9th April 1945 in the prison Stein an der Donau. Six days later, on 15. April 1945, the SS has to execut all prisoners, including Georg Kofler.

Georg Kofler is buried at the cemetery in Stein/Donau.