Egon Langer

Egon Langer attended the Catholic teacher training college in Vienna-Währing. In 1928, he was accepted into the Habsburg secondary school fraternity (now Babenberg Vienna). After graduating from high school in 1931, he entered the teaching profession in Vienna.

After the Anschluss, Egon Langer became a member of the legitimist resistance group "Austrian Workers' Party", founded by primary school teachers in 1940, to which Karl Polly also belonged. This group maintained contacts with legitimist circles and people abroad, including Otto von Habsburg, who was in the USA at the time. Because of his suspicious behavior, Egon Langer was transferred to the Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. There, after the resistance group was exposed, he was arrested by the Gestapo on 27 May 1941 on suspicion of "preparation for high treason" and registered for identification purposes. On April 16, 1943, he was transferred from Vienna to the Hohenasperg Fortress prison near Ludwigsburg ["Schubart Fortress"], TBC section. He died here on 8 August 1943 as a result of the abuse he had suffered in prison.