Dr. Maximilian Platter

Maximilian Platter was born in Innsbruck, but his family soon returned to Terlan in his native South Tyrol. He attended the state grammar school in Merano, where he graduated in 1904. He went to Innsbruck to study law and was accepted into the student fraternity Austria Innsbruck in 1904. In the fall of 1907, he moved to Graz and joined the student fraternity Carolina Graz. When the student fraternity Traungau Graz was founded at its 20th foundation festival on May 29, 1908, Maximilian Platter became a founding member. At the time of the "academic culture war", he was one of the pioneers of Catholic student life. Despite the fierce battles between nationalist and Catholic students, he soon passed his state examinations and graduated as Doctor iuris in Graz in 1910.

After graduating, he became police commissioner in Trieste and, after Trieste became Italian, he held this position in Graz, where he became a police councillor. In 1925, he was put in charge of the railroad police in Salzburg. Maximilian Platter soon became senior police councillor, government councillor, court councillor and deputy police director of Salzburg.

After the National Socialists seized power, he was dismissed from his post on March 23, 1938 and dismissed on January 1, 1939 in accordance with §&thinspspol.In 1939, he was forced to retire with reduced pay in accordance with § 4 para. 1 of the Ordinance on the Reorganization of the Austrian Civil Service, but his pension was never paid out to him as his wife, who owned a photo studio, was able to receive it. On March 23, 1944, they are both remanded in custody; his wife is released in July 1944, while he himself is sentenced by the People's Court to five years in prison for aiding the enemy, subversion of military power and interception of enemy broadcasts, which he spends in Straubing prison in Upper Bavaria until the end of the war. Here he fell ill with typhus.