Eduard Lexer

Personalia

Born:

March 18, 1905, St. Lorenzen

Died:

February 13, 1951, Lienz

Profession:

Priest

Persecution:

Imprisonment 1940,
Dachau concentration camp 23.03.1940 - 25.10.1942,
Neuengamme concentration camp 25.1.1942 - 20.04.1945

KZ Number:

11628, 1628

Memberships

K.Ö.St.V. Star corona Hall

Curriculum Vitae

Eduard Lexer becomes a member of the middle school association in 1926 Sternkorona Hall. In 1933 he receives the priesthood. When he is a priest in Winklern im Mölltal (Kärnten), he quickly comes into conflict with the Nazi regime. As a good preacher, he travels a lot in Carinthia, East Tyrol and South Tyrol. He hears "foreign channels“and make notes with important information from the Allies to share them with friends. One time, such a notebook slips out of his pocket. He'll be displayed in 1940 by an agent advocate. At the border crossing Sillian in the Hochpustertal to Italy from the Gestapo, he is due to "Currency smuggling“ Arrested and without trial on 23. March 1940 in the KZ Dachau override. From there he becomes KZ Neuengamme where he must remain until the end of the war.

According to the DÖW files, Eduard Lexer is also sent to the labour camp for political prisoners in Niederöfflingen near Wittlich/Mosel, where he is employed in road construction. He has to take the mail from the station to the camp every day as a letter carrier.

He survived a total of five years in different concentration camps before he was liberated.

A. Walzl, even priest, about Eduard reader

Nearly 45 years old he dies on 13. February 1951 on a liver suffering in the CZ (hepatitis).

Places

Persecution:

Dachau concentration camp (Germany), Neuengamme concentration camp (Hamburg-Neuengamme, Germany)

Residence:

Citations

Krause, Peter/Reinelt, Herbert/Schmitt, Helmut (2020): Farbe tragen, Farbe bekennen. Katholische Korporierte in Widerstand und Verfolgung. Teil 2. Kuhl, Manfred (ÖVfStG, Wien) S. 204.

Eduard Lexer

Priest
* March 18, 1905
St. Lorenzen
† February 13, 1951
Lienz
Detention, Concentration camp