Dr. Walter Nestor

Walter Nestor, the son of Franz Nestor, completed grammar school at the Jesuit College Kalksburg and began studying law in Graz after graduating in 1923. There he was accepted into the Carolina Graz student fraternity in 1923. In 1927, he completed his studies with a doctorate in law and became a lawyer in Linz.

When Adolf Hitler moved into Linz after the Anschluss on March 12, 1938, Walter Nestor came into conflict with members of the SS Leibstandarte in a hotel and was knocked unconscious by them. His office is subsequently closed. In the summer of 1938, he jokes about the "Hitler salute" during a train journey, is reported and arrested. He is given a three-month prison sentence for mocking the "German salute". After serving his sentence, he is transferred to the Dachau concentration camp on November 25, 1938. After his release on May 22, 1939, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht.