Eduard Lexer
Personalia
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Imprisonment 1940,
Dachau concentration camp 23.03.1940 - 25.10.1942,
Neuengamme concentration camp 25.1.1942 - 20.04.1945
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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.
Nearly 45 years old he dies on 13. February 1951 on a liver suffering in the CZ (hepatitis).
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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.
