Anton Brunnbauer

Anton Brunnbauer was born in Weidling in Lower Austria, the son of wine merchant and landlord Johann Brunnbauer and Maria, née Trunk. After finishing school, he joined the Austrian army in 1926, where he remained until 1932. He was then unemployed. In 1933, he married Maria Weigl, also from Weidling, with whom he subsequently had two children.

On March 12, 1938, Anton Brunnbauer, who was still living off odd jobs, witnessed the demise of free and independent Austria with the invasion of the German Wehrmacht. On March 14, 1938, he was detained for two days due to his opposition to National Socialism.

His letters are checked and intercepted by the army censorship office. On September 22, 1943, Anton Brunnbauer was arrested and taken into army custody. In a trial before the military court on March 8, 1944, he was sentenced to 6 weeks imprisonment for 'suspension of military service', without credit for pre-trial detention and demotion. He was released more than six months later, on May 29, 1944, but was immediately assigned to a punishment company. As he fell ill with malaria, he first had to be treated in a military hospital before being assigned to Punitive Company 999 for 'frontline probation' on June 12, 1944.

In December 1944, Anton Brunnbauer was seriously injured during the war. From December 21, 1944 to February 14, 1945, he was in a military hospital in Lüneburg and was then thrown back into the war, into Prison Company 999, where he did not take part in any more battles.

In May 1945, Anton Brunnbauer experienced the liberation of Austria and returned to Weildling on June 6, 1945, without having been a prisoner of war. He then began working in the municipality of Klosterneuburg as a municipal official. He joins the ÖVP-Kameradschft der politisch Verfolgten und Bekenner für Österreich. He retired as a municipal official and died at the age of 80 in Franziskus Spital in Vienna-Margareten.