Alexander Willibald Friedrich Maria Bormann

Alexander Willibald Friedrich Maria Bormann was born in Vienna as the legitimate son of the Protestant engineer Friedrich Bormann and Helene, née Hruby. Nothing has been preserved about his childhood and youth.

In the 1930s, he worked as a newspaper delivery boy and in 1934 joined the Austrian Communist Party (KPÖ), which was already illegal at the time. Due to his activities in the KPÖ, he was interned in a detention camp near Korneuburg from May 20, 1934 to June 10, 1934.

On March 12, 1938, Alexander Bormann witnessed the demise of a free and independent Austria when the German Wehrmacht invaded. The opponent of National Socialism continued to work as a newspaper delivery boy after the occupation of Austria. He is a regular at the Josef Regner inn, which is located in his home. He often criticized the National Socialist regime there. Shortly after March 13, 1942, he declared in reference to a speech by Josef Goebbels in Vienna, in which he called for unity, that Goebbels was only making a fool of himself.

Alexander Bormann is reported to the Gestapo and arrested on December 2, 1942. On September 10, 1943, he was taken to Stein an der Donau prison. In a trial before the special court in Vienna on July 24, 1944, he was sentenced to three years in prison for 'degradation of the German armed forces' and 'degradation of the military strength of the German people'. His belongings are temporarily stored and are lost as a result of acts of war and looting in April 1945.

In Stein prison, Alexander Bormann survives the massacre of April 6, 1945, is taken via Passau to Munich-Stadelheim prison on April 8, 1945, where he is liberated by American troops on May 7, 1945.

After regaining his strength in Munich, he returns to liberated and reborn Austria. He joins the ÖVP-Kameradschaft der politisch Verfolgten und Bekenner für Österreich