Hans Leinkauf

Hans Leinkauf was born in Vienna. After attending elementary and secondary school, he trained as a watchmaker and worked in this profession until 1929. After 1928, he became involved in the Heimatschutz, was a speaker for the Austrian Young People and a member of the Fatherland Front.

After the occupation of Austria by the German Reich in March 1938, he worked as a salesman and warehouse worker. In the summer of 1942, he joins the Karl Karasek via Antifascist Freedom Movement of Austria (AFÖ) to Karl Wanner (also known as the Lamberti-Runde), which met at the inn run by Franz Lambert [now Pürstner]. As a staunch opponent of National Socialism and a convinced Austrian, he wanted to gather anti-National Socialist-minded people to be ready at the time of the fall of the Third Reich.

Hans Leinkauf was arrested by the Gestapo on May 19, 1943 and sentenced to 3 years in prison by the People's Court in Vienna on August 15, 1944 for "failure to report a crime" in relation to "preparation for high treason". He was imprisoned until April 25, 1945 (end of the war).

After the war, he ran a tobacconist's shop and became involved in the ÖVP. He is district party chairman of the ÖVP Hernals, provincial party secretary of the ÖVP Vienna, provincial and gf. Federal chairman of the ÖVP Kameradschaft der politisch Verfolgten und Bekenner für Österreich, as well as a local councillor between 1954 and 1973. He died in Vienna in 1974.