Vinzenz Seebacher

Vinzenz Seebacher was born in Gloggnitz as the legitimate son of miner Jakob Seebacher and Anna, née Grestl. After completing his schooling, he does an apprenticeship as a locksmith, which he completes with a master craftsman's certificate.

After this, he is unemployed for a long time and becomes involved in the Heimatschutz from 1930. In 1934, he first spent two months as an auxiliary policeman with the border guard near Passau and during the National Socialist July Putsch as a M.G. Führer at the Federal Chancellery. In 1936, he was part of the guard team at a political detention camp in Gloggnitz, where National Socialists were being held. Vinzenz Seebacher made particularly disparaging remarks about Adolf Hitler to the imprisoned Viennese National Socialist Otto Riesberger.

When the new rulers held the fake referendum on the "Anschluss" on April 10, 1938 after the invasion of the German Wehrmacht on March 12, 1938, Vinzenz Seebacher, a staunch opponent of National Socialism, refused to take part. In addition, Otto Riesberger, from the detention camp in Gloggnitz, had denounced him to the Gestapo because of his statements there. Vinzenz Seebacher was finally arrested by the Gestapo on April 20, 1938 and deported to the Dachau concentration camp on May 20, 1938. He was imprisoned there together with the Gloggnitz residents Theodor Kreiss, Norbert Endres, Julius Gansterer and Isidor Harsieber.

Vinzenz Seebacher was released from Dachau concentration camp on April 20, 1939. He was then declared unfit for military service and had to report to the police station every day for a year.

Vinzenz Seebacher then worked as a locksmith in Schottwien. There he also witnessed the liberation of Austria. After the war, he joins the ÖVP comradeship of the politically persecuted and confessors for Austria.

Vinzenz Seebacher is promoted to foreman of a company and retires in this position. He died at the age of 85 and found his final resting place in Scheiblingkirchen. He was married and the father of five children.