Ferdinand Habel jun.

Ferdinand Habel Jr. is the son of Ferdinand Habel Sr. the choirmaster of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna. He attended the Marianist secondary school in Graz and, after graduating in 1928, enrolled in electrical engineering at the Vienna University of Technology. In 1929, he was accepted into the student fraternity Babenberg Wien.

Two days after the Hitler Youth stormed the Archbishop's Palace in Vienna, Ferdinand Habel jun. responded on October 10, 1938 in front of the palace to the remark by a man walking behind him that Cardinal Innitzer was a rascal: "When a man is over 60 years old, you don't call him a rascal. I also believed that the storming of houses and destruction, as well as attacks on people, were only possible in Spain." - this was the account given by Ordinariate Director Prelate Josef Wagner on January 28, 1939 in the Gauakt. Four civilians then arrested him and handed him over to a policeman. Ferdinand Habel jun. spent two months in police custody before being sent to the Dachau concentration camp as a "protective custody prisoner" on December 10, 1938. The group of "Innitzergardists", as the SS later mockingly referred to them, also included the members of the Neuland League Hans Eis, Egon Hanel, Hermann Lein and the members of the Reich League Josef Kaspar, Franz Ranftl and Franz Riesenhuber.

On September 27, 1939, Ferdinand Habel junior was transferred in a cattle wagon to the Mauthausen concentration camp, where he was forced to work in the quarry. He formed a special friendship with Hermann Lein, the later chronicler of the "Innitzergardists". After Ferdinand Habel junior's release from the concentration camp was refused "due to poor management in the camp", he died of "hunger typhus" in the epidemic ward on February 3, 1940, just over four months after his transfer to the Mauthausen concentration camp, despite the efforts of the "sanitary capo" Karl Maria Stepan. According to Hermann Lein, he died of starvation.