Martin Berger

Martin Berger attended the Franciscan grammar school in Hall/Tyrol and was accepted into the Sternkorona secondary school fraternity in 1905. After graduating from high school, he began studying law in Innsbruck and was accepted into the student fraternity Vindelicia in 1908, which was still based in Hall/Tyrol at the time. After dropping out of university, he joined the accounting department of the post office. Through his marriage, he became the stepfather of Walter Krajnc - also a member of the Vindelicia student fraternity - who was executed by firing squad in 1944 as a Wehrmacht soldier for his collaboration with the French Resistance.

In Innsbruck, the "Post" resistance group was formed among postal workers, with Carl Hirnschrott (Ambronia Innsbruck secondary school fraternity) taking the lead in April 1945. As part of the resistance organization, the group was given the task of setting up a monitoring service, switching long-distance calls via official lines and protecting the valuable telecommunications equipment from destruction by the Wehrmacht and the SS as the American units approached. As a member of this resistance group, Berger's main task within the "Post" group was to collect and smuggle Austrian soldiers willing to resist through to the mountain camps.