Franz Loiskandl

In 1929 Franz Loiskandl joined the middle school compound Nibelungia St. Pölten. After completion of the Gymnasium in St. Pölten, he enters the services of the NÖ Land Government in 1937 and is assigned to the Waidhafen a. d. Thaya district council.

His rejection of National Socialism during his various activities in fatherland organizations has the result that, following the 16.3.1938, he is imprisoned for a few days in the prison in St. Pölten and then in the LG in Vienna. Among other things, he is charged with “conception of anti-state activity and hostile journalistic activity against the N.S.D.A.P. (flightsheets of various newspaper articles). As a “sufficient opponent of the N.S.D.A.P.”, he is also supposed to have “distreated” Nazis, according to the founding. The arrest also disbands his service relationship.

On 25.9.1938, Franz Loiskandl becomes KZ Buchenwald override. After his dismissal from prison on 3.5.1939, he finds no work: “was it not possible for me to turn myself back into the work process and I was glad to have been convened to the Wehrmacht on 1.2.1940.” – he describes his situation in the CV. It is “probably used in the East”, is wounded several times and is then in American prisoner of war on 1.5.1945.

He dies in a traffic accident in 1952.