Mag. Johann Heidlmayr

Johann Heidlmayr attended elementary school and the Realgymnasium in Wels. After graduating from high school, he began studying to become a teacher of mathematics and physics at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Vienna in 1929. In 1929, he became a member of the Kürnberg fraternity.

After the Anschluss, he was arrested on March 14, 1938, while still a student teacher, and detained for 30 days in the police jail in Wels. When the school authorities informed him after his release that he was unsuitable for teaching, he began studying high-frequency engineering. Because the police in Wels refused to issue him a certificate of political reliability, he was unable to take up the position he had been offered. In September 1939, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht. He served in an air signals unit; his final rank was noncommissioned officer. He was taken prisoner by the British and was able to return home at the end of 1945.

After the war, he returned to teaching, becoming a secondary school teacher at the Realgymnasium in Wels, where he rose to the rank of senior teacher and eventually became principal.