Hofrat Dr. Alois Josef Kermer
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Alois Josef Kermer was born in Strass im Strassertal as the legitimate son of winegrower Alois Kermer and his wife Aloisia, née Eder. After elementary school, he attended grammar school. In 1932, he transferred to the grammar school in Klosterneuburg, where he joined the Arminia Klosterneuburg secondary school fraternity in the same year. He graduated in 1934 and enrolled in law at the University of Vienna in the winter semester of the same year. On December 1, 1934, he began working in the provincial civil service of Lower Austria in a post for high school graduates. The devout Catholic and patriotic Austrian rejects National Socialism out of the deepest conviction and communicates this to his colleagues. He also took part in demonstrations against National Socialism.
On March 12, 1938, Alois Kermer witnessed the demise of free and independent Austria with the invasion of the German Wehrmacht. On November 17, 1939, he finally received his doctorate in law. In the same year, he married Maria Buzay. He was denied promotion to an academic post in Lower Austria, which was now occupied, and continued to make no secret of his opposition to National Socialism. In addition, on February 24, 1940, he was transferred to the district administration of Neunkirchen in Lower Austria.
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I have known Hofrat Dr. Kermer since May 1935. We have worked in the same office since then. We also had personal contact. I can also remember that we took part in anti-national socialist demonstrations together.
I can therefore confirm his asserted attitude, which was also generally known, from my own knowledge at any time.
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After the days of upheaval, those civil servants who feared that they would be affected by the law to streamline the civil service joined forces.
During this time, I gained the impression that Hofrat Dr. Kermer noticeably distanced himself from the National Socialists and was undoubtedly not one of those people who tried to save themselves by making a political U-turn.
In Neunkirchen, Alois Kermer experienced the liberation of Austria and the re-establishment of the Republic in April and May 1945. On September 21, 1945, he was given an academic post in the district administration of Gänserndorf. He joins the newly founded Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and the ÖVP-Kameradschaft der politisch Verfolgten und Bekenner für Österreich.
Alois Kermer worked at the Gänserndorf district authority until his retirement. After the death of his wife, he married Gertraud Weinberger, née Rupp, in 1995. He dies in Vienna at the age of 92.
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