Obstlt. Dr. Karl Grebenz

Karl Grebenz was born in Höflein as the son of a postman of the gendarmerie. He visits the national, central and military real school and then the military academy in Wiener Neustadt. He hits a military runway. At the outbreak of World War I, he's a major. When he tries to leave Pezemysl in the balloon, he goes to the Russian prisoner of war, where he is suffering a lifetime gastrointestinal disease.

After his return from the prison of war, he studied Jus at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in 1924. He becomes police officer and finally goes directly before the occupation of Austria by the Third Reich on 1st. March 1938 retired.

During the invasion of the Wehrmacht, the persuasive legitimist and opponent of Nazism will be detained for six hours and once again after the Munich assassination on Adolf Hitler. At this time, he lives in Graz, where the local police advise him in 1940, he is to go to Vienna.

About Vinzenz Hauser and Karl Hans Karasek, Karl Grebenz comes in contact with Karl Wanner, who introduces him to the Lamberti Round in early 1942, when this part of the Anti-fascist freedom movement of Austria (AFÖ) around the pastor Anton Granig and the former member of the State Karl Krumpl is. He is a frequent guest and participates in the discussions about the collapse of the Third Reich.

When the AFÖ flies in 1943, Karl Grebenz will be on 8th. February 1943 arrested and in the trial before the Volksgerichtshof on 15th August 1944 sentenced to 3 years imprisonment for “not displaying a highly traitorious company”. He remains in custody until the end of the war and comes on the 7th. April 1945 free.

After the war, Karl Grebenz moved to Graz in 1947, where he died in 1953.