Leo Josef Stöger

Leo Josef Stöger graduated from high school in Horn, where he was a member of the Waldmark Horn secondary school fraternity and then studied medicine in Vienna. In 1911, he joined the Norica student fraternity. After military service in the First World War (ultimately as a medical lieutenant), he worked as the main secretary of the Christian Social Party in Klagenfurt and finally as an employee in the private sector (ultimately as an authorized signatory of the Städtische Versicherung insurance company in Vienna).

After the Anschluss in 1938, he was dismissed without severance pay and without the redemption of acquired commission claims and was detained in Vienna for seven days, during which six house searches and interrogations were carried out by the Gestapo. During the Nazi era, Leo Josef Stöger was employed by the insurance companies Kosmos, Anker and Viktoria Versicherung and two industrial companies in succession, but was dismissed in each case due to his lack of membership of the German Labor Front.