Stefan Glanz

Stefan Glanz is born in Vienna as the son of a wallpaperer Leopold Glanz. After compulsory school he learns the craftsmanship of his father. In 1915 he voluntarily enters the First World War and is employed on several fronts. After the war, he is first active as a professional boxer and sports instructor. From 1924 he works as a wallpaperer and is later employed at the Lohner-Werke in Vienna. In 1934, he joins homeland protection and launches to the company commander. He is critical of Nazism. In 1937 he married Maria Enzersdorferin Stefanie Preinkopf.

In 1942, Stefan Glanz learns about his friend and former colleagues at home protection, Vinzenz Hauser of the existence of a legitimate, anti-national socialist organisation – the Lamberti Round around the Vienna lawyer Karl Wanner, part of Anti-fascist freedom movement of Austria (AFÖ). This group takes into consideration how, after the definitive collapse of the Third Reich, a thunder-education with the inclusion of Bavaria under the leadership of Otto von Habsburg-Lothringen could look. Although Stefan Glanz is invited to the Lamberti Round, he does not appear there.

Another friend from the homeland protection of Stefan Glanz, Oskar Ghelleri, invites him in the summer of 1942 to the regular table he founded in Café Tschokel in the Girardigasse 10, 6th Vienna municipality. In addition to Oskar Ghelleri, the former home guards Vinzenz Hauser, Karl Schall and Witold Müller, as well as Ghelleri's youth friend Guido Zeller from Zellhain Member. About Vinzenz Hauser is the group to Anti-fascist freedom movement of Austria (AFÖ) connected.

Also the group Café Tschokel , similar to the Lamberti Round, looks at how a system under the leadership of Otto von Habsburg-Lothringen could look after the decline of the Third Reich. In addition, news from the BBC – designated by the National Socialists as the “Feindsender” – are exchanged. These had belonged to Stefan Glanz, Vinzenz Hauser and Karl Schall privately.

On February 12, 1943, Stefan Glanz was arrested by the Gestapo and on February 11th March 1944 condemned by the Volksgerichtshof for “listening an enemy station” and “preparation to high treason” to four years of breeding house. The punishment excludes those who are incapable of defence and from the service of the Wehrmacht. His state of health in prison is getting worse and worse. If it weighs 108 kg, at 190 cm, it leans to 67 kg. At the same time, he has circulatory disorders and heart complaints. He is therefore arrested on 30 December 1944. Stefan Glanz is attesting a 70 percent reduction in employment.

Stefan Glanz spends the rest of the war without prejudice. Due to his health problems due to detention, he dies relatively young, in 1951, childless in Vienna.