Johannes Krawarik

Johannes Krawarik is group leader of the CDSB in the upper school of the Realschule in Vienna. In 1920, he is one of the co-founders of the secondary school fraternity Vindobona I [VDW], and one year later also of the secondary school fraternity Ottonia and, in 1925, Markomannia (both daughter fraternities of Vindobona I and no longer in existence). After graduating from high school, he entered the seminary in Vienna and began his theological training. In 1921, he joined the student fraternity Nibelungia Wien. After his ordination to the priesthood in 1926, he took on pastoral duties as chaplain in Pottenstein, Lower Austria, and then in Vienna-Währing. In 1930, he was appointed curate of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna.

After the powerful demonstration by Catholic youth on the occasion of the Feast of the Rosary on October 7, 1938 in and in front of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, the Hitler Youth (HJ) rioted against the Archbishop's Palace and the Churhaus on October 8, 1938. The cathedral curate Johannes Krawarik was on the second floor. A mob enters the Churhaus in search of the Archbishop of Vienna Cardinal Innitzer, drags Johannes Krawarik into the corridor and throws him out of the window. Fortunately, he falls onto a pile of sand in the courtyard. Nevertheless, he breaks both thighs and his knee. No doctor is found to help him for over an hour. Only Dr. Gustav Mittelbach, who had been transferred from Graz to Vienna, and Josef Nagler, later director of the Vienna Technical Museum, who both happened to be passing by and saw the injured man, administered first aid after the rioters had left. Johannes Krawarik was only released from hospital months later in February 1939 and had to use crutches to get around for a long time, but he never really recovered from the shock and injuries.