Walter Norbert Othmar Crammer

Walter Crammer was born in Klosterneuburg, the legitimate son of lawyer Othmar Crammer and Maria, née Krebs. After elementary school, he attended the lower level of the grammar school in Klosterneuburg and then transferred to the Höhere Staats-Gewerbeschule in Mödling [today: Höhere Technische Lehranstalt Mödling - HTL Mödling].

A devout Catholic and staunch Austrian, at the age of 16 he witnessed the end of a free and independent Austria with the invasion of the German Wehrmacht on March 12, 1938. Immediately after the occupation of Austria, his younger brother, Herbert Crammer, who was a member of the middle school fraternity Arminia Klosterneuburg, joined the resistance group Austrian Freedom Movement around the Klosterneuburg canon Karl Roman Scholz. At the beginning of May 1940, Walter Crammer also joined this resistance group.

After the betrayal of castle actor and confidant Otto Hartmann, Walter Crammer was arrested by the Gestapo on July 22, 1940 on suspicion of "preparation for high treason".

From Vienna, he was sent to Anrath and Duisburg prisons before being sentenced to five years in prison for "preparation for high treason" in a trial before the People's Court in Vienna on February 26, 1944.

Walter Crammer was to serve his sentence in Straubing prison. As American troops approached Straubing in April 1945, the prison was emptied on April 25, 1945. The march of the prisoners was caught up with by US troops on May 1, 1945 near Heldenberg near Landshut and Walter Crammer was freed.

After the liberation of Austria, Walter Crammer returned to his family in Vienna. He becomes secretary of the Federation of Democratic Freedom Fighters and joins the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and the ÖVP-Kameradschaft der politisch Verfolgten und Bekenner für Österreich.

Afterwards he worked as an employee for various companies, married Sophie Tomasch in 1953 and became a family man.

As an employee he retired and died at the age of 89 in Neupölla.