Dr. Edwin Stemberger

Edwin Stemberger studied law in Innsbruck after graduating from high school and joined the student fraternity Raeto-Bavaria Innsbruck in 1936. From 1939 to 1945 he did his military service. In 1943, due to a lower leg injury, he was sent to Brno as a lance corporal to the artillery replacement section 109, where, among other things, he Georg Krasser and his cousin First Lieutenant Hans Janauschek, the adjutant of the division commander Captain Estermann.

According to Georg Krasser, a resistance group had been formed here since 1942, which set itself the task of keeping as many Austrians and unsuspected "Reich Germans" in the stage as long as possible by selectively dealing with front requirements, in order to protect them from further deployment in the war. Edwin Stemberger was also to return to the front as quickly as possible. The surgeon general ordered an operation to repair his injury and wanted to release him as fit for military service after a period of convalescence. Janauschek and Estermann prevent this. Edwin Stemberger was employed as a clerk in the department staff until the end of the war and became an active member of the resistance group. In this way, he was able to help save as many people as possible from further deployment at the front.