Dr. Johann Wollinger

Johann Wollinger graduated from grammar school in Vienna 12 in 1934 and began studying law, which he completed in 1940 with a doctorate (Dr. iuris). In 1930 he became a member of the Herulia Vienna secondary school fraternity and in 1934 a member of the Norica student fraternity. From June to September 1937, he underwent military training in the Austrian army. In the winter semester of 1937/38 and the summer semester of 1938, he was the last senior (chairman) of the Norica student fraternity before the occupation of Austria.

On the night of March 11/12, 1938, he and others saved the most valuable items in the Norica's possession, including the archive, before the SA occupied the building. They also ensure that these items remain hidden until after the war. He is subjected to "countless interrogations and questionings" in 1938. Johann Wollinger succeeds in continuing the Norica, which no longer formally exists. From 1938 to 1945, the events took the form of hikes, in apartments and in locations run by Noricer families (Gasthof Schweinberger, Vienna 3rd, Reisnerstrasse; Hotel Exelsior in Vienna 1st, Rotenturmstrasse) or at the disposal of Noricers (general practitioner Dr. Johannes Pollack in Pillichsdorf). Young men are admitted secretly. Robert Krasser and Hans Wollinger create a system of trusted men among the members. Joint mass celebrations on the occasion of anniversaries and funerals of Noricers are further occasions for meetings.

Johann Wollinger is initially admitted as a court clerk, but is drafted into the German Wehrmacht in July 1941 and is deployed in the USSR in 1942. For damaging the reputation of the German Wehrmacht, he was imprisoned for eleven days, eight of which were aggravated. He was back in Vienna from October 1942 and formed a resistance group within the 05 from March 1943, for which he managed to get Alfred Brodil transferred from Enns to Vienna. The group led by First Lieutenant Hans Janauschek and Franz Derndorfer at the Artillery Replacement and Training Department 109 in Brno and Amstetten supplied the Wollinger group in Vienna with pistols, ammunition and hand grenades. The Wollinger resistance group also enlisted the help of doctors Karl Fellinger, Franz Rischl, Franz Matschnigg, Leopold Haas, Friedrich Brunner and others in order to withdraw Austrians from front-line service. Towards the end of the war, Johann Wollinger and seven other Noricans managed to find shelter in the Purkersdorf sanatorium's infectious diseases hospital with the help of medical friends, thereby avoiding recruitment for the "Defense of Vienna".

After the Nazi terror and the re-establishment of the Norica, Johann Wollinger was once again elected Senior (Chairman) in the winter of 1945/46 and in January 1946 was elected Suburban President (VOP, Chairman) of the re-established ÖCV. He first worked as an administrative lawyer in the Federal Ministry of Education, then as a chamber official. From 1954 to 1958, he was a member of the Vienna Provincial Parliament and from 1964 until his death, he was an official city councillor in Vienna.