Hofrat Dr. Hermes Massimo

Hermes Massimo visits the high school in Hall/Tirol. As an uncompromising opponent of National Socialism, he is active in resistance.

During the invasion of the German troops, he is actively involved in the fights in Wörgl/Tirol. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he is moved to the German Wehrmacht. Here, too, he does not steal from his Austrian mind and is therefore sentenced to four years in prison by a court of war for warfare in 1941. After half a year of punishment, he is transferred to a criminal company. After front deployments in Norway and Russia he returns home heavily wounded. Until the end of the war, he is a further active member of the Austrian Resistance Movement in Tyrol, where he has also received contact with the Student Association Austria in Innsbruck.

After a longer stay, Hermes Massimo studies philosophy at the University of Innsbruck. With the dissertation “The concept of the concept of the venture at Sören Kierkegaard”, he is awarded his doctorate in 1948 as a Dr. phil.