Dr. Wilfried Daim
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Wilfried Daim grew up in Vienna-Hernals. After attending secondary school, he transferred to a two-year commercial college. Before 1938, he belonged to the Jungreichsbund in Vienna XVII, Elterleinplatz, a sub-organization of the Katholisches Jungvolk. He is actively involved in the Hernalser Pfarrjugend, whose group members remain in contact even after the German Wehrmacht marches into Austria and continue to work underground.
He also takes part in the Catholic Youth rally in Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral on the occasion of the Rosenkranzfest on 7 October 1938.
At secretly held home evenings, Wilfried Daim meets the middle school student Karl Strobl, who leads an illegal Gruppe Calvarienberg, a continuation of the disbanded Österreichisches Jungvolk (ÖJV), and the middle school student Alfred Kostelecky from the former student congregation in the Canisiuskirche in Vienna IX, who again belongs to the illegal Gruppe Eisen of the former ÖJV.
Weinand was very important for my cultural development. For my political development, however, another was probably of greater importance. Soon after my appearance at the vicarage, a young man came to Weinand for the first time, almost militarily disciplined, and introduced himself as Karl Strobl - middle school student, upper middle school.
Some of these home evenings were led by the middle school student Hubert Jurasek from the Gruppe Eisen. There was soon a connection with the Gruppe Haan at the City Driving School in Vienna IX, until this was exposed in October 1940.
I soon received a summons to an interrogation at the youth department 2Cl at the Gestapo headquarters on Morzinplatz. I was very scared because I had to expect that they wouldn't believe me and would try to force the truth out of me. But I was lucky in misfortune.
He manages not to betray anyone. From the fall of 1940 to April 1942, he attended the Matura school in Habsburgergasse, where he passed the Externistenmatura. He was then drafted into the tank destroyers. He was wounded three times on the Russian front. After his last wound near Katowice [today: Katowice/OS], where his lower right leg had to be amputated in the military hospital, he arrived in Vienna on the hospital train via Bratislava.
In Vienna, Wilfried Daim experienced the liberation of Austria from the German occupiers in May 1945. After convalescing, Wilfried Daim began studying psychology and anthropology at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Vienna and joined the student fraternity Rudolfina, Leopoldina and Maximiliana. He received his doctorate in 1948. He specializes in parapsychology. In 1956, he founded the private Institute for Political Psychology. He then worked as a publicist and Catholic educational functionary.
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Krause, Peter/Reinelt, Herbert/Schmitt, Helmut (2020): Farbe tragen, Farbe bekennen. Katholische Korporierte in Widerstand und Verfolgung. Teil 2. Kuhl, Manfred (ÖVfStG, Wien) S. 47/48.
