Camillo Hermann Heger
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Vienna
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Accountant and journalist
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Camillo Hermann Heger was born the illegitimate son of private tutor Maria Josefine Heger in Vienna's 15th district. After elementary school, the devout young man attended secondary school and then a commercial school in Margareten, where he trained as an accountant.
In other words, I loved Austria with all my feelings, with all my heart, with a very special and particular rejection of everything that was Prussian or Greater German. Even as a child, I was irritated by the fact that Germany was always placed in the foreground during the First World War, that the achievements of Austria-Hungary at the time were trivialized, that after the First World War there was a huge bombastic lamentation about the Treaty of Versailles, although Germany only lost a few colonies and a few strips on the French-German border, while Austria, as a strong central European state, was completely destroyed and there was no mention of Saint Germain at all. Well, that's probably one of the reasons why I was inherently immune to any propaganda from the National Socialists.
From his work with the Austrian Young People, Camillo Heger knows Friedrich Theiss, who, like him, is a devout Catholic and strictly opposed to National Socialism. After the occupation of Austria by the Third Reich in March 1938, Friedrich Theiss founded the Austrian Front [also known as Theiss Group or Austrian Movement], a group that sought the separation of occupied Austria from the German Reich. This organization recruits members and even founds its own women's group, which is led by Josefa Breuer. Monthly membership fees are collected, excursions and training courses are organized and pro-Austrian publications are produced.
When the anti-aircraft gunner Leopold Buliczek, who is also a member of the Austrian Front, is caught trying to escape to Hungary, he reveals the existence of the Austrian Front group around Friedrich Theiss after interrogation by the Gestapo.
On February 7, 1940, Camillo Heger and the other members of the Austrian Front were arrested by the Gestapo after a house search. He was sent to the Rossauerlände prison (also known as Elisabethpromenade). On December 17, 1941, the group around Friedrich Theiss, the members of the Austrian Front, were finally put on trial before the Special Court. At this trial, Camillo Heger is sentenced to one year and three months in prison.
He remains in custody until December 18, 1941. He then worked as an accountant at the Schuh & Clylik company and was drafted into the Wehrmacht on 28 September 1943.
After his return from Soviet captivity at the end of 1947, he joined theÖVP-Kameradschaft der politisch Verfolgten und Bekenner für Österreich (Austrian People's Party Comradeship of the Politically Persecuted and Confessors for Austria), where he became deputy regional chairman for Vienna and worked in their information center until the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Austria and then as an employee of a company. He also worked as a journalist. In 1959, he married Margit Jergius.
After a fulfilling working life, he finally retired and died in Vienna at the age of 77.
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Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchiv (WStLA)
Österreichisches Staatsarchiv (ÖStA)
Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstands (DÖW)
ÖVP-Kameradschaft der politisch Verfolgten und Bekenner für Österreich (KPV)
