Karl Steiner

Karl Steiner visits the trade academy in Salzburg. He is received at the Mittelschulverbund Almgau Salzburg on 1937. Acquired by Friedrich Zacke, he forms together with the federal brothers Karl Glaser and Robert Weidinger and others, inspired by the high school student Karl Beran, who came to Salzburg in the summer of 1938, a cell of the “Grauen Freikorps”. This underground activity is excavated, and Karl Steiner together with Karl Glaser and Robert Weidinger on 25. October 1938 arrested by the Gestapo. They will be transferred to the national court prison, as against them the process "for preparation for the high treason and constitution of a highly treasoned proclamation for Austria‘. [Details see Karl Glaser)

On 28. November 1938 the process is provisionally terminated;the defendants are in police custody in sog. KZ-displacement cells, where they are taken on the 6th. December 1938. With the indictment of August 2, 1939, the trial against the three youthful members of the Almgau Salzburg middle school association will be resumed, this time with the justification of a forbidden party. The beginning of the process scheduled for 9 September 1939 is suspended due to the beginning of the war and then on 4th November 1939 by “Gnaden decree of the Führer”. On August 31, 1940, Karl Steiner – together with his mother – will be arrested again without special charges and held in custody until mid-December.