Dr. Ferdinand Trentinaglia von Televenburg SJ

After graduating from high school, Ferdinand Trentinaglia von Televenburg was accepted into the student fraternity Vindelicia Innsbruck in 1929. He joins the Jesuit order and is ordained a priest in 1938 after completing his theological training, which he finishes with a doctorate in theology. He then took on various co-operator positions in Lower Austria.

As a religious education teacher, he pointed out the pastoral care of secondary school pupils who had been drafted as air force helpers at meetings with parents. He also urged parents to insist on religious care for their children when they were deported to the country or, if possible, to send them to relatives in the country instead of to the camp. He also asked his pupils to write down how they would imagine religious care if religious lessons were banned by the state or the state leadership. As a result of these activities, he was arrested on 16 May 1944 on suspicion of "having prepared the establishment of an illegal Catholic youth organization". The Gestapo's daily report states, among other things:

At the trial on August 18, 1944 before the Special Court, he was also accused of deliberately rejecting the Greater German idea or the Greater German and National Socialist state. He was accused of giving a speech at a pastoral conference on July 8, 1942, in which he constantly spoke of Austrians, Austria, our closer homeland, the old Reich, etc. He was charged with incitement to hatred. He is sentenced to 18 months in prison for inciting young people, for violating the law on malice and for "pulpit abuse". The end of the war also brought his early release.