Eduard Lexer

Eduard Lexer becomes a member of the secondary school fraternity Sternkorona Hall in 1926. He was ordained a priest in 1933. As a priest in Winklern in Mölltal (Carinthia), he quickly came into conflict with the Nazi regime. As a good preacher, he travels a lot in Carinthia, East Tyrol and South Tyrol. He listens to "foreign stations" and occasionally makes notes with important information from the Allies to pass on to friends. One such note slips out of his pocket. As a result, he was reported to the police by an agent provocateur in 1940. He was arrested by the Gestapo at the Sillian border crossing in Alta Pusteria into Italy for "smuggling foreign currency" and transferred without trial to the Dachau concentration camp on March 23, 1940. From there, he was transferred to KZ Neuengamme, where he had to remain until the end of the war.