Dr. Walter Krajnc

Walter Krajnc visits the Volksschule in Hall/Tirol and from 1926 he attends the College of Franciscans, where he is a member of the Marian Congregation will. After the Matura in 1934, he skribbles at the Faculty of Law of the University of Innsbruck and joined the Student Association on 1934 Vindelicia .

After the occupation of Austria by the Third Reich in March 1938, he joins the “Kampfgruppe Tirol” of the Austrian Resistance. In the autumn of 1938, he is a doctorate for Dr. iur. and wants to begin the practice of court in Hall, but will be on 19. March 1939 as “invalid for the NS state‘ not admitted to service. He works as an auditor in various companies in Vienna, Prague, Warsaw and Gotenhafen (Gdynia)]. He also uses this time to learn the Czech, Polish and Russian language.

After his convocation in December 1940 to Kolin near Prague as a funker in the German Wehrmacht, he arrives after a short period of training in Czechoslovakia to France, where he is stationed in Dijon, Paris, Lyon and Avignon. During this period, he considers himself to be compulsory, consciously remains simple soldier and repeatedly emphasizes his relatives that he rejects any takeover of a responsibility in this war, for example: by participating in an officer's course.

After the invasion of the German troops into the so far unoccupied France in November 1942, Walter Krajnc gets the first contacts to the French Resistance Movement [Resistance] and joins her as a member 1514. He supplies them with information as well as the US and English army. In 1943 he becomes a radio unit in the headquarters of the 19th century. Army assigned to the German Wehrmacht in southern France. In this position he receives knowledge of the German occupation. It does not make any sense of rejection of these methods and is reported to the superior departments because of its statements. Soon he will be assigned to a shooting command. He should have refused to participate in the execution of the firing order, according to the various reason of arrest. In his arrest on July 12, 1944, he wounded the pulsed artery with a razor and was sent to the Avignon prison.

Shortly before, a stripe of the field gendarmerie should also have found documents for secret radio traffic with the allies on the occasion of a check in his Soldbuch. He is accused of cooperation with the French Resistance. He's supposed to award his liaison, but he refuses.

Walter Krajnc becomes 28. July 1944 sentenced by the military court of the Army-Oberkommando 19 as a spy on land treason to death by shooting.

29. He was shot in Les Angles near Avignon in July 1944.

Since heIn dishonest“It has died, according to the communication to the parents, no wedding celebration can be held for him and no requiem for him sung.

Walter Krajnc is buried in the cemetery of Les Angles near Avignon, where a memorial plaque reminds him.