Alois Lugger

Alois Lugger was born in Untertilliach near Lienz, the son of farmer Josef Lugger. After completing his schooling, he volunteers for the Imperial and Royal Navy at the age of 19. He also served in the First World War. After the war, he began working as a civil servant for the Austrian Federal Railways in 1920. During the interwar period, he became involved in the Heimatschutz, where he became a youth leader in East Tyrol.

After the occupation of Austria by the Third Reich, he was taken into protective custody for two months as a staunch opponent of National Socialism and was forced to retire from the service in 1939. He then worked as an accountant in an ironmonger's shop.

In the spring of 1942, he met Ernst Ortner, one of the leading figures of the Antifascist Freedom Movement of Austria (AFÖ). The latter convinced him to take over 600 flyers with anti-Nazi content, which were delivered to him by Eduard Pumpernig. However, these are no longer distributed, as Alois Lugger is arrested after the Anti-Fascist Freedom Movement of Austria (AFÖ) is exposed.

On August 22, 1944, Alois Lugger is sentenced to six months in prison for failing to report a treasonable enterprise. He remains in prison until the end of the war.