Hofrat Alois Hradil

Alois Hradil attended grammar school in Klosterneuburg and joined the Arminia Klosterneuburg secondary school fraternity in 1932. After graduating with honors in 1933, he joined the student fraternity Welfia. He studied classical philology at the University of Vienna.

On the day of the Anschluss, Alois Hradil was a senior member of Arminia. Together with other brothers, he forms the "Freicorpsfähnlein St. Leopold", which soon makes contact with Roman Scholz. Despite serious misgivings about their youth, Roman Scholz accepts the activists into his resistance group, which is initially called the "German Freedom Movement" and then, from September 1939, the "Austrian Freedom Movement [OeFB]". This group was exposed through the betrayal of the Viennese castle actor Otto Hartmann (1904-1994), who received 30,000 RM for his activities as a confidant. Alois Hradil is called up for military service in the meantime and arrested on October 22, 1940. He is not put on trial until December 1-2, 1943. He is sentenced to four years in prison for "preparation for high treason". He had to serve his sentence in the prison in [Willich-]Anrath on the Lower Rhine, where he was liberated by the Americans on April 16, 1945.