Max Franz Josef von Zimmeter
Personalia
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Persecution:
Imprisonment March 1938,
Imprisonment Aug. 25, 1938 - Nov. 18, 1938
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Curriculum Vitae
Max Franz Josef von Zimmeter completed his school education in Innsbruck, joined the secondary school fraternity Teutonia Innsbruck in 1911 and in 1916, after graduating from high school, the student fraternity Austria Innsbruck.
During the First World War, he volunteered for the Kaiserjägern and took part in the great battle of Pasubio on 28/29 August 1917 on the Italian front. Emperor Karl I awards him the Order of the Crown for his special service. Max Franz Josef von Zimmeter records this time in a poem, which reads, among other things:
Oak leaves and edelweiss adorned the hunter's cap
and a silver penny, which was useful for the return home. [Green-white-black was also there, among other colors,
which torn on the chest, now spoiled in the grave.He who did not meet the hero's death, hid in his pocket
the boy's ribbon and put on the tricolor mesh. [<...]Then the war came to an end, undefeated beaten,
Brotherly honor still carried the ribbon home.Green-white-black went out my ribbon, black now it returns,
bloody earth, powder smoke beat down green-white.Old good boy's ribbon, like tattered flags,
Love of country, brotherly spirit is your constant reminder.
After the war, he studied philosophy and theology in Innsbruck and was ordained a priest on December 17, 1921. He then became a cooperator (chaplain) in Zirl, Schwaz, Matrei am Brenner and Mariahilf. In 1932, he became a religious education teacher.
In this role, he witnessed the fall of Austria with the invasion of Austria by the German Wehrmacht. Immediately afterwards, he was arrested and dismissed from his post because he was "unacceptable" as a religious teacher.
On August 25, 1938, he was arrested again, probably because of his monarchist views. He was then exiled to Kleinstockach, a village with only 50 inhabitants.
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Citations
- Krause, Peter/Reinelt, Herbert/Schmitt, Helmut (2020): Farbe tragen, Farbe bekennen. Katholische Korporierte in Widerstand und Verfolgung. Teil 2. Kuhl, Manfred (ÖVfStG, Wien), p. 409.
