Dr. Viktor Kollars

Viktor Kollars was born in Graz in 1897 and joined the Gendarmerie in 1918. In Graz, he completed an apprenticeship course for gymnastics and history and in 1927 he completed the apprenticeship examination in the area of gymnastics. In 1938 he completed his doctorate in philosophy. In 1930 he is a founding member of the Norica Graz student association.

At the same time, from April 1934 to April 1937, he belongs to the Styrian state governments under Alois service leather (until 1934) and Karl Maria Stepan, where he exercises the function of the Secretary General of the Austrian Gymnasium. He is also active as a functionary in the Patriotic Front. In 1936 he is appointed as a specialist inspector for gymnastics and as an instructor for methodological exercises at the University of Graz.

After the invasion of the German Wehrmacht in 1938, he is released as a teacher. He must work as a taxi driver until the end of the war to feed his family.

After the war, he will become a sports worker at the Christian-socially embossed gym and sports union and official in the Sport section in the Ministry of Education, where he was appointed Head of Section of the People's Education Section in 1959.

In 1976 he dies in Vienna.