Dr. Viktor Reimann
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Vienna
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Curriculum Vitae
After graduating from high school, Viktor Reimann began studying history and German studies in Vienna, which he completed in 1939 with a doctorate. He then worked as a journalist and writer.
Although he initially sympathized with the National Socialists, he turned to the resistance after the occupation of Austria and founded Roman Karl Scholz, he founded a resistance group in autumn 1938, which initially called itself the 'German Freedom Movement', then from September 1939 the 'Austrian Freedom Movement' and finally changed its name to the 'Austrian Freedom Movement'. A number of members of the middle school fraternity Arminia Klosterneuburg are actively involved in this resistance group, which is led by Alois Hradil. Otto Hartmann, an actor at the Burgtheater in Vienna, sneaked into the group as an informer, found out about them and then reported them to the Gestapo. Viktor Reimann was then arrested in 1941 - like Alois Hradil and Walter Stecher before him on December 22, 1940.
From 1938 and 1939 to 1940, the defendants were members of a secret organization that prepared the overthrow of the National Socialist state leadership and the separation of the Danube and Alpine regions from the Reich under the name 'Austrian Freedom Movement'.
He served his sentence in Straubing (Lower Bavaria) until the end of the war.
After the war, Viktor Reimann returned to journalism and first became editor of the Salzburger Nachrichten and then its deputy editor-in-chief until 1948. From 1949 to 1956, he was also a member of the National Council.
Citations
Krause, Peter/Reinelt, Herbert/Schmitt, Helmut (2020): Farbe tragen, Farbe bekennen. Katholische Korporierte in Widerstand und Verfolgung. Teil 2. Kuhl, Manfred (ÖVfStG, Wien) S. 273/274.
