Johann Wiedermann

Johann Wiedermann was born in Zistersdorf, the son of farmer Johann Wiedermann and his wife Theresia, née Tloder. After completing his schooling, he also became a farmer in Zistersdorf.

In the 1930s, the staunch Austrian and opponent of National Socialism joined the Fatherland Front and movements close to it. In 1934, he was a member of the Volunteer Protection Corps in Zistersdorf.

Johann Wiedermann suffered a punctured lung and liver and other deep cuts. The injuries would affect him for the rest of his life.

The perpetrators, Johann Riess, Josef Kunst, Rudolf Friedländer and Rudolf Wimmer, were charged with grievous bodily harm, but the case was dropped on 21 July 1938 following the occupation of Austria by Hitler's Germany in March 1938. July 1938, as "political offenses" committed by National Socialists were amnestied.

After Johann Wiedermann recovered, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1941 and was taken prisoner of war in 1944. As a prisoner of war, he witnessed the liberation of Austria and the re-establishment of the Republic in April and May 1945. After returning home, he worked as a farmer again, married in 1951 and started a family. He joins the newly founded Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and the ÖVP-Kameradschaft der politisch Verfolgten und Bekenner für Österreich.