Schwester M. Immaculata (Maria) Schleimer FDC

Maria Schleimer was born in Vienna, the daughter of waiter Karl Schleimer and Antonie. She is one of four sisters. She attends the elementary school, middle school and handicraft school in Vienna, both of which are run by sisters of the Congregation of the Daughters of Divine Love. At this time, Maria Schleimer already had the desire to join the congregation.

On September 1, 1929, when she was not quite 16 years old, Maria Schleimer finally joined the Congregation of the Daughters of Divine Love and was given the religious name M. Immaculata. As there was a need for typing and stenography teachers at this time, Sr. M. Immatriculata was trained as such. She finally completed her training in 1933 and became a teacher at the secondary school and commercial college attached to the convent.

After the occupation of Austria by National Socialist Germany, the Catholic schools were closed in the fall of 1938 and Sister M. Immaculata spent most of her time at the Marienanstalt. In the ladies' residence in Jacquingasse attached to the Marienanstalt, she met Gabriele von Munk, the widow of a section head of the Ministry of Finance, who was baptized Catholic but of Jewish descent. The latter receives a leaflet critical of the Nazis entitled "Die braune Hymne" (The Brown Anthem) via the former lieutenant of the Home Guard Herbert Joelson and the gendarmerie captain's wife Meta Wayda. This concludes as follows:

If you feel an Austrian heart beating in your chest, then it is your sacred duty to work for the restoration of our Austria and to send at least 10 copies of the above poem to your known Austrian-thinking people.

Gabriele von Munk asks Sr. M. Immaculata to make 10 copies on the typewriter, which she does and distributes. As an opponent of National Socialism, Sr. M. Immaculata listens with her fellow sisters M. Gualberta Krenn, Sr. M. Aniceta Schiefelbein, Sr. M. Ewalda Schenk, Sr. M. Meinrada Wleklo and Sr. M. Genesia Rychetzky together with other residents of the ladies' dormitory and the Redemptorist priest Anton Pauk the banned station "Radio Vatican".

On November 22, 1939, Sr. M. Immaculata was arrested by the Gestapo together with other nuns for listening to a "hostile radio station" and for distributing a "abusive poem". She is charged with "broadcasting crimes" and "homophobia" and sentenced to two years in prison by a special court on July 18, 1040. She spends part of her sentence in Stadlheim and Traunstein prison. She was finally released from prison on October 26, 1941 and remained in the Marienanstalt of the Congregation of the Daughters of Divine Love until the end of the war.

She was rehabilitated on September 1, 1945 and then worked again as a teacher of stenography and typing, an educator in a semi-boarding school and boarding school, as well as a choirmaster and organist. She finally retired in 1979, but continued to help out at the school.