Sophie Jörgl

Sophie Jörgl is the daughter of the municipal water master of Klagenfurt, Johann Jörgl, and his wife Maria. After attending elementary school, she first worked as a nanny and from 1940 worked as an employee of the Kosmos insurance company in Klagenfurt.

The family is critical of National Socialism, Sophie's brother Johann Jörgl is active in the resistance and the head of the AFÖ, Father Anton Granig, is well known to the family. One of Sophie Jörgl's colleagues at the Kosmos insurance company is Georg Kofler. Together with Franz Bernthaler and Karl Loßmann, the three opponents of National Socialism wanted to produce leaflets, send them abroad and distribute them via radio. Georg Kofler also tells Sophie Jörgl this. Sophie Jörgl tells Anton Granig about these plans, which he not only supports but also encourages. Sophie Jörgl then passes on a leaflet written by Lossmann to Father Anton Granig. Sophie Jörgl was therefore the interface between the group around Anton Granig and the group around Franz Bernthaler and Georg Kofler.

Sophie Jörgl was employed as a typist in the Gestapo office and was able to smuggle a letter out of prison in which she provided confidants with important information. Her family and Paula Krumpl were thus spared arrest.

In autumn 1944, she was taken to the Waldheim labor camp in Germany, after which she did forced labor in a munitions factory in Zeithain on the Elbe. After the camp was liberated by the Red Army, she and a fellow prisoner reached Klagenfurt via Augsburg, where she arrived in July 1945.