Dr. Max von Kurz zum Thurn und Goldenstein

After the Matura Max studied short for Thurn and Goldenstein Medicine in Graz and became a member of the student association in 1901 Carolina. After his specialized training in neurology and psychiatry, he works at the “Landesirrenanstalt” in Ybbs/NÖ, Valduna/Vbg. and Niedernhart near Linz. During the First World War, he is employed as a military physician in Galicia and Poland as well as South Tyrol. From 1927, he is a Primarius of the Landesanstalt and then a specialist in neurology and psychiatry in Niedernhart. Between 1931 and 1935 he moved to Graz.

Max von Kurz zum Thurn und Goldenstein has contacts with Carolinen Gerd Stepanschitz and Alois Dorfbauer in Graz and their meetings as “Barbara municipality“from which Carolina has been able to take her “illegal” offspring. After the fall of Stalingrad he is involved in the spring of 1943 as four Carolinen the six metre high “Hitler oak“ in the opera ring curve. He maintains contacts with Father Capistran Pieller TheAnti-fascist freedom movement of Austria (AFÖ)“, making him target the Gestapo.

In the arrest of P. Kapistran Pieller OFM in August 1943, letters from Max von Kurz to Thurn and Goldenstein are found, where the speech from the “Grazer Freundeskreis” is meant – but the activities of Carolina are meant. At Max von Kurz, the Gestapo will then conduct a visit to the Thurn and Goldenstein, because it sees him as the main of this “conspirator group”. But because he has been warned in time, he can secretly leave some material.

After the Second World War, he strives for the re-establishment of Carolina and is elected to its Philistine Senator.