Alois Lugger

Alois Lugger is born in Untertilliach near Lienz as the son of the peasant Josef Lugger. After his schooling, he volunteered to the k. u.k. Marine at the age of 19 where he also served in the First World War. After the war, he began working as an official at the Bundesbahn in 1920. In the interwar period, he is engaged in homeland protection, where he becomes a youth leader in East Tyrol.

After the occupation of Austria by the Third Reich, he will be detained for 2 months as a decisive opponent of National Socialism and released from service in 1939 by forced retirement. He then works as an accountant in an iron shop.

for the guards Ferdinand Niederwieser, who were dismissed from the watch service due to his adversity to National Socialism, he learns in the spring of 1942 Ernst Ortner, one of the leading heads of Anti-fascist freedom movement of Austria (AFÖ) know. This convinces him to take over 600 flight tickets with anti-national socialist content, which Eduard Pumpernig to be delivered. However, they are no longer distributed, since Alois Lugger is arrested after the anti-fascist movement of Austria (AFÖ).

Alois Lugger becomes 22. August 1944 sentenced to six months in prison for not showing a high treason company. He remains in custody until the end of the war.

After the war, Alois Lugger lives in Lienz and dies there in 1963.