Franz Stoppacher

Franz Stoppacher is born as the son of a shoemaker master in Anger near Weiz in Styria. After compulsory schooling he works first in agriculture and later learns the same craft as his father. After that, he deserves his living as an assistant. In 1917, he was moved into the First World War and was taken on 3rd November 1918 was released in prison from 1919.

Later he works as a municipal worker and joins the fatherland front in the 1930s. He is critical of Nazism. In October 1938 he marries Stephanie Markus steadfastly. In August 1939, shortly before the start of the war, he will be convened and appointed as ammunition manager at the airport in Klagenfurt. He's a subofficial.

In the night of 27 March 1942 on 28 March 1942 meets Wrong Primosch with Franz Stoppacher, who is familiar with the air force in Klagenfurt, joins him in the projects of ‘Anti-fascist freedom movement of Austria‘ (AFÖ) and asks him in the same night, together with Eduard Pumpernig to distribute anti-national socialist leaflets, which makes Franz Stoppacher immediately. That's how they're distributing 1,000 tickets that night.

Franz Stoppacher will be on 24. July 1943National activity“ Arrested by the Gestapo and accused before the Volksgerichtshof. Franz Stoppacher argues during the trial in front of the Volksgerichtshof that he hadPrussian military superiors“ has been treated in a hazy manner. After the Gestapo cannot prove any further involvement in the AFÖ, he is sentenced to six years of high treason for aid and is in prison until the end of the war.

After the war he marries Stephanie Markus in 1959 also churchly.