Hofrat Dr. Anton von Mörl zu Pfalzen und Sichelburg

Anton Mörl attended grammar school in his hometown of Brixen. After graduating from high school, he began studying physics and chemistry at the University of Graz. He was accepted into the student fraternity Carolina Graz in 1901. In the 1903/04 academic year, he went to Prague, where he also joined the Ferdinandea Prague student fraternity. Back in Graz, he interrupted his studies in 1907 to become editor of the "Reichspost" in Vienna. He also enrolled at the Faculty of Law at Vienna University. A bout of tuberculosis forced him to return to Brixen in his native South Tyrol. After recovering, he went to Innsbruck, where he obtained his doctorate in law in 1914.

He then joined the provincial governor's office and was drafted into the Standschützen in May 1915. At the end of the war, the retired first lieutenant returned to the provincial service and was initially assigned to the district administration in Riva on Lake Garda in 1918, then to Brixen in 1919 and Schwaz from 1920 to 1933. In 1933 he was appointed district governor of Reutte and security director of Tyrol. During the July coup by the National Socialists in 1934, an assassination attempt was made on him.

After the Anschluss, Anton Mörl sent his retirement application to Vienna on 12 March 1938 as a demonstration of his opposition and went to hospital the same day due to acute cardiac insufficiency. The very next day, he is arrested from his sickbed in the Kreuzschwestern sanatorium and taken to the provincial court prison. On May 30, 1938, he was transferred to the concentration camp in Dachau. Here, on August 18, 1938, he also took part in the legendary "Festsalamander" in the concentration camp canteen on the occasion of Carolina's 50th foundation festival. On September 22, 1939, he is transferred from there to Flossenbürg concentration camp, where he is released on September 5, 1940. After his release, he spent a long time in a sanatorium due to his heart condition, but had to report to the police every three days.

On July 28, 1944, he was arrested again by the Gestapo for the July assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler and interrogated, but was released again as nothing could be proven against him. Without having been involved in the preparations, he was designated as a political sub-commissioner for military district XVIII: Carinthia, Salzburg, Styria, Tyrol, Vorarlberg in the planned new government.