Vinzenz Hauser

Vinzenz Hauser was born in Graz. After attending elementary school, he initially works in agriculture. He later works in inns and hotels. He is involved in the Front Fighters' Association and the Heimatschutz.

From 1939, he works for the Reichspost. In January 1941, he met the lawyer Karl Wanner. Karl Wanner gathers a group of resisters around him, the so-called Lamberti-Runde, named after the Viennese innkeeper Franz Lambert [today: PÜRSTNER]. They meet there regularly. Vinzenz Hauser is a member of this group. He listens to the "enemy radio station" and regularly passes on what he hears at the regulars' table. In 1942, the Lamberti Round Table joined the Antifascist Freedom Movement of Austria (AFÖ). He began to build up organizational structures to overthrow National Socialism.

When Vinzenz Hauser met his former colleague from Heimatschutz, Oskar Ghelleri, in the autumn of 1941, he told him about the Lamberti Circle around Karl Wanner. Although Oskar Ghelleri is initially rather critical of a legitimist resistance group, in spring 1942 he founds Café Tschokel in Girardigasse 10, in Vienna's 6th district, together with Vinzenz Hauser, Stefan Glanz, Karl Schall and Witold Müller - all former members of the Heimatschutz - and his childhood friend Guido Zeller von Zellhain, a regulars' table that pursues the same goals as the Lamberti-Runde. Vinzenz Hauser is the contact person between the two regulars' tables within the Antifascist Freedom Movement of Austria (AFÖ).

Vinzenz Hauser is arrested by the Gestapo on 3 March 1943 and sentenced to 10 years in prison by the People's Court in Vienna on 15 August 1944 for "preparation for high treason" and "broadcasting crimes". He was only released at the end of the war.