Dr. Alfred Kostelecky

After the national school at the school brothers in Vienna-Währing, the Viennese Alfred Kostelecky visits the Bundesgymnasium. After the Matura in 1938, he enters the Vienna Seminary. As head of the Catholic Youth, he takes on the Rosary Festival of 7th October 1938 and is subsequently arrested. He must spend some time in Gestapohaft. He will be a member of the Resistance Group “Eisen” (Fe), who will scatter the tickets and destroy the “Stürmer” as a sign of their protest. About Ferdinand Habl comes Alfred Kostelecky with the student connection Pannonia in contact and is particularly associated with him in the joint activity in the resistance group “Austrian People’s Movement”.

Alfred Kostelecky was recruited as a military service in 1940 and used on the East Front and in France. He is wounded four times during the war. He ends the war with severe war injuries in the lungs and on the leg impeded in American captivity.

After returning from the captivity in 1945 he can continue his theology studies and is consecrated to the priest in 1948. After a short career in Walkersdorf (Pfarre Etsdorf am Kamp), he is freed to study church law in Rome. After graduation to Dr. iur. can. In 1954 he began his service as Domvikar in St. Stephan and as a lawyer at the Metropolitan and Diocesan court. In 1954 he becomes a student association Rudolfina recorded.

In 1986 Pope John Paul II appoints him. (1978–2005) to the Titular Bishop of Aggar [today: Sidi Amara, Tunisia], Weihbischof in Vienna and the first military bishop for the Austrian federal army, he receives the bishop's consecration on the 14th. December 1986 in St. Stephen's Basilica.