DDr. Alois Lugger

Alois Lugger was born the son of a gendarme. The family came from the pilgrimage site of Maria Luggau in the Carinthian-Tyrolean border region and moved to Kufstein after the death of his mother in 1919, where Lugger completed elementary school and secondary school. There he was accepted into the Cimbria secondary school fraternity. After graduating from high school in 1931, he began studying at the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the University of Innsbruck (Dr. iur. 1935, Dr. rer. pol. 1936) and joined the student fraternity Austria Innsbruck.

After a year in court at the Innsbruck provincial court, Alois Lugger joined the Tyrolean provincial government in 1936 and became secretary to Governor Josef Schumacher. After the Anschluss in March 1938, he was dismissed as a state employee and banned from working in the Gau Tirol and then for the entire "Ostmark". He therefore worked first as a commercial lawyer in Vienna and then in Berlin (legal advisor at AEG). In 1940, he was drafted into the German Wehrmacht (Flak) and returned wounded several times (last rank: first lieutenant in the reserves).