Dr. Edwin Stemberger

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Resistance fighter (undiscovered)
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Curriculum Vitae
Edwin Stemberger studied after the Matura Jus in Innsbruck and joined the student association in 1936 Raeto-Bavaria Innsbruck . 1939–1945 he is providing his military service. In 1943, he joined the Artillery Replacement Division 109 as a femur because of an under-leg injury to Brno, where he, among others, the Cartell Brothers Georg Krasser and his cousin Oberleutnant Hans Janauschek, the adjutant of the department commander, Captain Estermann.
Here – says Georg Krasser – since 1942 Resistance group which has set itself the task of keeping as many Austrians and unfamiliar “Reichsdeutsche” in the stage as long as possible through selective handling of front requirements in order to protect them from further warfare. Edwin Stemberger is to return to the front as soon as possible. The general staff physician orders an operation to restore the injury and wants to dismiss it again as capable of using war after a reconvalescence period. This prevents Janauschek and Estermann. Edwin Stemberger is employed as a writer in the department's staff until the end of the war and becomes an active member of the resistance group. It can help to preserve as many as possible from further frontal use.
After the war, he is employed in the Federal Chamber of Commerce.
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Citations
- Krause, Peter/Reinelt, Herbert/Schmitt, Helmut (2020): Farbe tragen, Farbe bekennen. Katholische Korporierte in Widerstand und Verfolgung. Teil 2. Kuhl, Manfred (ÖVfStG, Wien), p. 343.
