Dr. Rudolf Klar

After the Matura at the Gymnasium St. Pölten in 1922, Rudolf Klar begins studying law at the University of Vienna, which he concludes with his doctorate as Dr. iuris. He is admitted to the Norica Student Association in 1922.

According to legal practice and conceptual activity, Rudolf Klar was registered in 1932 in the register of lawyers and opened its own firm in Herzogenburg (NÖ) in December 1933. He is a national function of the Christian-German Turnverein and is also a district function of the Patriotic Front.

On 12.3.1938, two uniformed and armed men arrested him in Herzogenburg and sent him to the prison of the local court. [The time of arrest is dated back in the Gauakt with “14.3.1938”.] At a time that can no longer be realized today [the Gauakt speaks of a protective custody until 15.5.1938], Rudolf Klar is transferred to the prison in Vienna 7, Hermanngasse 38. He's being mistreated there. A preliminary investigation for high treason ends in 1938 with the termination of the proceedings. Rudolf Klar is released in December 1938 from the list of lawyers according to § 2 and 4 of the Third Regulation on the affairs of lawyers, lawyers and defenders in criminal matters in Austria of 27.9.1938 (RGBI. I, p. 1405) deleted and rejected. He then moved to Vienna with his family in May 1939. Here he forms as a “helper in tax matters” and later as a tax advisor. In January 1941 he was moved to the Wehrmacht. After the basic training in Deutsch-Altenburg and Hainburg, he initially works in a payment mastery, but is then transferred to the administration of the foreign exchange office in Vienna. When this test site is assigned to the Gestapo in 1944, it is transferred to Brno [Marschkompanie Gren. Ers. Batl. I/134 (11b)].

The last message to the family comes from 12.4.1945. After the capitulation of the Wehrmacht in this room on 11.5.1945, the German soldiers are in Soviet prisoners of war. According to reports from returnees, Rudolf Klar is said to have died in late autumn 1945 in a prison camp in the Ufa region at the Ural, possibly an eager Angina.