Dr. Anton Jaklitsch

Anton Jaklitsch attended the state grammar school in Ljubljana. He graduated with distinction at the end of the 1910/11 school year and went on to study law at the University of Graz. In 1910, he joined the student fraternity Traungau. After obtaining his doctorate in law, he joins the state police service, becomes police superintendent and security director of Carinthia.

After the Anschluss, he is one of the first victims of the purges carried out in the cadre functions of the administrations. He was arrested on June 4, 1938. He is accused of detaining a Klagenfurt lawyer who had campaigned for the National Socialists for three weeks without interrogation. The charge was therefore abuse of office in July 1934.

He was sentenced to five years in prison.

In 1942, he belonged to the inner circle of the Antifascist Freedom Movement of Austria (AFÖ) and was appointed head of the police in Carinthia. He is charged with preparation for high treason before the People's Court in Vienna and expelled.

In 1946, he is appointed Chief of Police in Graz.