Dr. Alois Amann

Alois Amann attended the Franciscan grammar school in Bolzano, where he graduated with distinction in 1921. Because he then began studying law in Innsbruck without having completed his military service in Italy, he was arrested as a deserter and was not allowed to visit his homeland for years. It was only through the intervention of Federal Chancellor Ignaz Seipel that the matter was resolved and Alois Amann was granted Austrian citizenship. In 1921, he joins the student fraternity Austria Innsbruck.

He completes his doctorate in 1925 and opens a law firm in Bad Ischl.

In 1938, he is imprisoned for several weeks. When he was drafted into the Wehrmacht, he was faced with the choice of serving as a court-martial counselor with the rank of major or as an ordinary soldier on the Eastern Front. He opted for the Eastern Front, became a lance corporal and escaped from Russian captivity through an adventurous escape during which he was wounded.