Paul Flach

Paul Flach is born in Zams, the son of railroad foreman Albin Flach and his wife Anna, née Loos.

Paul Flach has been a group leader in the Neuland League since Easter 1936. After the occupation of Austria by the Third Reich, all groups went underground. He continued to lead his group in secret. In 1939, he is banned from the Gau because of his activities and moves to Innsbruck. In 1940, he founded an illegal youth group in Innsbruck. In August of that year, he met with Chaplain Johann Nebenführ (1916-2004) from Laa an der Thaya and the group he had founded in the Wachau. They wanted to work together in the future and set up further groups. In December 1940, the Catholic parish youth and the Marian Congregation were banned throughout the Tyrol-Vorarlberg region. The Innsbruck group led by Paul Flach, in collaboration with Father Alois Schrott SJ, then took over the further training work of the secondary school youth.

In 1958, he became a member of the student fraternity Theresiana Innsbruck