Hofrat Mag. Leopold Guggenberger

On March 11th morning, when we learned that a large NS demonstration was to take place in the city centre of Salzburg for the late afternoon hours, I alerted about 100 middle students from the 15th. Year of life, with which we then took over the state bridge at about 5 p.m. in closed formation by the demonstrators until the café “Tomaselli”. As the demonstrators suspected the illegal HJ in us – we all wore white stubs – they made us free when we marched. Only on our speech choirs “red-white-red to death” and “Austria” they recognized us as an area monster. This action was so surprising that, as already mentioned, we were able to walk through the café “Tomaselli”. From there I marched with the young people to the free residence, which was relatively little illuminated and completely free for the time being. After we had set up, we were surrounded within a short time by the angry NS demonstrators who had gone after us and verbally attacked with loud dangers and NS-Paroles. Before the re-increase, I had spent the parole, hitting through the crowd on a sign of myself and collecting it behind and between the residence fountain and the dom. This was also happening, and when I had assembled my fellows there, a district inspector of the security guard named Georg Fürst, who gave me the advice as a responsible person not to put the young people further at risk, as there had already been considerable smuggling of the Nazis. I then moved to the dark domicile with the around 100 young people, among whom the later national council member Karl Glaser was also located. There I explained to them that it now obviously ends up with Austria's self-sufficiency and appealed to them to keep their fatherland faithful until Austria resurrected. Then I sent the young people home. I was arrested in Paracelsusgasse 12 at 2 a.m., with Fritz Zacke from SA-Leuten and detained in the police prison for one day.