Dr. Albert Schmidinger

Albert Schmidinger will be honored as Chief Lieutenant in the First World War. After the war, he works as a plant building inspector in the office of the Vorarlberger Landesrat. In 1934, he became a member of the Home Army and then the VF. In 1938 he is a senior official of the Vorarlberger Bauernkammer, 1938–1939 at the Vorarlberg County Farmership, 1939–1943 at the Landesbauernschaft Alpenland in Salzburg 1943–1944 at the Landesbauernschaft Tirol-Vorarlberg in Innsbruck.

He is part of the “Abhörkreis” Karl Biack and Franz Seywald, which has listened to foreign broadcasts, including BBC and Beromünster (Switzerland) between 1941 and 1944, which has been strictly forbidden. On 21 March 1944, as a result of denunciation, twelve persons of this circle, including Albert Schmidinger as a representative of a "Habsburg separatism“and his wife Rosa, arrested by the Gestapo and taken to the detention centre in Salzburg. You will bePreparing for high treason“ accused.

On the 21st and 22nd July 1944, the 1st Senate of the Volksgerichtshof is chaired by President Roland Freisler in the Schwurgerichtssaal of the Salzburg Regional Court. Albert Schmidinger is sentenced to seven years of breeding house due to interrogation and especially spreading of messages of prohibited “final sender” according to §§ 1, 2 of the Broadcasting Regulation of 1. September 1939 – Dr. Karl Biack and Dr. Franz Seywald are sentenced to death in the same procedure. On the march from the Straubing farm KZ Dachau Albert Schmidinger is released from the Americans on 30.4.1945.

In 1945–1947, he takes over an activity in the Land Nutrition Office and became chamber office director of the Vorarlberg Chamber of Agriculture in 1947–1951.