Dr. Kurt Schweizer

Kurt Schweizer initially grew up in Cattaro [Kotor in Bosnia-Herzegovina] close to the border with Montenegro and received private tuition. Shortly before the end of the First World War, the family moved to Bolzano for safety's sake, where Kurt Schweizer attended the third grade of elementary school. Unwanted as "enemy Austrians", the family moved to the Sudetenland in Teschnitz [Desnice] and from there to Innsbruck, where Kurt Schweizer completed his school education.

After graduating from high school, he studied medicine and joined the student fraternity Austria Innsbruck in 1929. After obtaining his doctorate in 1935, he worked as a secondary doctor at the hospital in Wels.

After the Anschluss, he was dismissed and imprisoned for six weeks, after which he had to report to the police every day. In October 1938, he took up a position as a community doctor in Oberwang and from 1941 in St. Georgen. During the war, he also had to care for eleven groups of prisoners of war who were deployed here for forced labor.