Dr. Josef Fink

Josef Fink attended the Franciscan grammar school in Hall/Tyrol and joined the Sternkorona Hall secondary school fraternity in 1911. After graduating from high school, he enrolled at the University of Innsbruck to study history and geography, which he completed in 1918 with a doctorate and a teaching qualification in these two subjects. During this time, he became a member of the Tirolia Innsbruck student fraternity. He also trained as a certified parliamentary stenographer.

During the First World War, he served in the I Regiment of the Tyrolean Kaiserjäger. After the war, he took over the "Volderwildbad" guesthouse in Tyrol in 1919, including a sawmill and farm, until he entered politics and became mayor of the municipality of Großvolderberg from 1928 to 1936. From 1936 to 1938, he was a member of the Tyrolean provincial parliament.

After the Anschluss, he was temporarily taken into police custody in 1939 and transferred to the Reichenau camp in 1944.