Dr. Georg Krasser

Georg Krasser is a nephew of Robert Krasser. After the Matura at the Staatsgymnasium Wien-Hietzing in 1937, he began studying law at the University of Vienna and became a member of the student association in 1937. Norica. 1938–1939 he is a specialist at the exchange office Vienna.

In September 1939 he was moved to the German Wehrmacht.

In December 1939 and in January 1940, however, the Gestapo’s recent agreement was followed, because he “in such a way expressed his opinion on the assassination of the leader [he had done on 8.11.1939 by Georg Elsner (9.4.1945)] as if he had already had knowledge of it before. ‘

He then finds military use in Belgium, France, Greece and the German East Front, where he suffers from Ruhr. After a hospital stay, Georg Krasser is transferred to the Artillery replacement and training department 109 in Brno at the end of 1941. Here his cousin Oberleutnant Hans Janauschek ensures that he can stay in the stage after the doctors Franz Ritschl and Albert Rheinberger considered him unfit for the further front service. Hans Janauschek is the adjutant of the department commander Viktor Estermann, the first commander of this unit coming from Austria from 15.12.1943. At the end of January/beginning of February 1942 in Brno, Georg Krasser arrives as an Ilb of the staff, specialist for subofficials and teams. Here he forms with his cousin and Franz Derndorfer a resistance group, which Fritz Kuso (because of a further delay only for a short time), Josef Janauschek (who should have come to Brno in July 1944 and was no longer with this unit in December 1944) and other non-ÖCVer. This group is also associated with other military opponents and civilian resistance groups.

After the assassination of Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944, Georg Krasser was arrested again at 6:00 a.m. in the course of an arrest on August 23rd, 1944 and remains in custody for three days. There is also a new house search for his apartment. In December 1944, the unit is moved to Amstetten (NÖ). (This laying could have been in connection with planning of the Austrian military resistance to occupying the city by military forces consisting of Austrians and associated with military resistance when Soviet air force troops were deployed in the Greater Vienna.)

Edwin Stemberger and a lieutenant Moritz Edlinger (or Franz Edlinger) join in Amstetten. On 5.5.1945, a command of the superior military body is made to defend an attack by Soviet troops to the army of the Erlauf. Georg Krasser then proposes Captain Estermann not to follow this command, but to transfer the unit to Hollenstein Castle.

Even before the march to Hollenstein, Georg Krasser with 20-30 men liberates his comrades Wachtmeister Hanel, who sits in a military arrest in market Ardagger (NÖ).

After Captain Estermann's Maj-Gen Lothar Rendulic – from April 1945 commander of the army group South/Ostmark – was released again, there is a one-hour shot change that demands a dead man.

Presumably the secret field gendarme 177 condemns Estermann, Derndorfer, Janauschek, Krasser and two civilians of local resistance in absence to death. The judgment is made by the Amstetten District Court on the official board. Most of the species. Ers. 109 goes to Upper Austria and Styria. About 300 men are in Soviet captivity.

Georg Krasser can escape from the captivity and asks in Vienna Leopold Figl to intervene in the Soviets in order to achieve a liberation of his comrades from captivity, which however fails.

After the war, Georg Krasser finishes his studies with the doctorate as Dr. iuris and becomes a lawyer.