Dr. Alfred Weiser

Alfred Weiser graduated from Kollegium Kalksburg in 1930 and began studying medicine in Vienna. Here he joined the student fraternity Norica in 1931. He received his doctorate in October 1936. From 1936-1940, he completed his residency in Vienna 16, Wilhelminenspital.

On March 8, 1938, a Norica Day was held in Vienna 9, Berggasse 16, at which Johann Wollinger, Robert Krasser and Richard Schmitz called on around 300 Noricians present to resist National Socialism. On his way home from this event, Alfred Weiser is attacked by young National Socialists and seriously injured by two lung stabs. After his recovery, he was conscripted as a general practitioner in the district of Görlitz in Upper Lusatia/Lower Silesia province from 1940 to 1942. In 1942, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and worked as a surgeon at the main dressing station of the First Medical Company of the 62nd Infantry Division in the USSR. He was taken prisoner of war by the Soviets in Romania in 1944 (Pensa POW camp in the Volga Federal District), from which he only returned to Vienna in November 1947.