Medizinalrat Dr. Norbert Klech

Norbert Klech is born as the youngest of three children of a teacher couple. After his Matura at the Humanist Gymnasium in the Kandlgasse in 7th District 1934 he insulates the study of medicine at the University of Vienna in the winter semester 1934/35. During this time he joined the student association Franco-Bavaria.

As a Catholic couleur student, he is strongly opposed to National Socialism and shows this publicly. As on Monday, the 28th In November 1938 the five medical students Norbert Klech and Friedrich Pakesch, both members of the student association Franco-Bavaria, René Grundmann and Friedrich Muschl, both members of the student association Rudolfina and Walter Ruff, member of the student association Amelungia, attended a lecture in medicine at the University of Vienna, have already spoken about their dissidential behavior. They are already observed by the later SS main storm leader Viktor Marounek, the later SS main storm leader Wolfgang Rabe, the SA-Rottenführer Josef Lack and the SS men Ignaz Artner, Lothar Böhm, Ernst Zartl and Friedrich Völkl.

Viktor Marounek in a memory record:

“Through various party congregations, I was told that in the lecture of Prof. Schürer, CVer publicly provoked anger by her obstinent behavior. After the revolt of Sitte, that at the beginning of the lecture the listenership is up and the German greeting of the professor is answered, the former leading CVer believed that they had to express their hatred against National Socialism by not giving this greeting, not raising up and expressing their disapproval of such new ideas by hand movements. [...] In fact, in the last bank, the students of Muschl, Pakesch, Ruff, Rene Grundmann sat in the manner indicated. [...] After Prof. Schürer had finished his lecture with the German greeting, the CVer Norbert Klech also did his rest by placing his hat during his greeting and by returning his back to the professor. ‘

After the lecture, the five communitons are put by the rod, beaten and the rodents are thrown down. After their names are established, they are suspended by the university and a disciplinary procedure is initiated. You will receive a ban on recruitment for the University of Vienna, which is why they can no longer compete for examinations this semester.

As part of the disciplinary procedure, they will be on 23 February 1939 guilty of saying, “after the completion of the lecture Prof. Schürer [...] had not made the German greeting. They are punished with an exhortation and warning by the dean and the semester is not counted to them.

In September 1940 he can successfully complete the study of medicine. After a short period of activity at the Lainz Hospital in the summer of 1941, the hospital is transferred to Pirmasens. During the entire war, he has the great happiness that he is not drawn to the Wehrmacht, despite full deafness, but can remain as a doctor in Pirmasens, where he finally marries and establishes a family.

In the summer of 1946, the young family returns to Vienna, where Norbert Klech successfully completes his training as a specialist in internal medicine at the Lainz Hospital and becomes a doctor.

Nobert Klech retired in 1980 and died in Vienna in 1996.