Dkfm. Edith Paula Hermine Schwarz (geb. Wimmer)

Edith Wimmer was born in Horn as the legitimate daughter of retired bank employee Otto Wimmer and Hermine, née Philipp. In 1924, the family moved to Vienna, where Otto Wimmer took up a position as an authorized signatory at Creditanstalt-Bankverein. He was also a regimental commander with the Heimatschutz and a functionary of the Vaterländische Front.

After elementary school, Edith Wimmer herself went to the Seipel-Gymnasium [today's BRG Rosasgasse] in Vienna's 12th district and became involved with the Wiener Heimatschutz in 1930. The entire Wimmer family, Hermine and Otto, as well as Edith and her younger brother Otto, were staunchly Catholic Austrians and strictly opposed to National Socialism.

On March 12, 1938, they witnessed the demise of a free and independent Austria with the invasion of the German Wehrmacht. Her father Otto Wimmer is taken into protective custody for nine days and demoted professionally. Edith Wimmer graduated in June 1939 and enrolled at the University of World Trade [today: Vienna University of Economics and Business] in autumn 1939.

Her former classmate Friedrich Theiss, also an opponent of National Socialism, founded the Austrian Front/Austrian Movement (Theiss Group) and convinces Edith and Otto Wimmer to join this group as well. The Austrian Front strives for the separation of occupied Austria from the German Reich. This organization recruits members and even founds its own women's group, which is led by Josefa Breuer. Monthly membership fees are collected, excursions and training courses are organized and pro-Austrian publications are produced.

Edith Wimmer attends meetings in her parents' home as well as in other homes, politicizes there and holds religious discussions. She also donates money to the organization.

When the anti-aircraft gunner Leopold Buliczek, who is also a member of the Austrian Front, is caught trying to escape to Hungary, he reveals the existence of the Austrian Front group around Friedrich Theiss to the Gestapo after interrogation.

On 13 February 1940, she is finally arrested. On June 13, 1940, she was released and on December 17, 1941, she was sentenced by the special court to six weeks in prison for offenses under the law against the formation of new parties, which had already been served with the pre-trial detention.

In Vienna, Edith Wimmer experienced the liberation of Austria in May 1945. She then continued her studies at the University of World Trade [today: Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration] and finally graduated. She joins the ÖVP-Kameradschaft der politisch Verfolgten und Bekenner für Österreich and marries Walter Schwarz, later Vice President of the Chamber of Commerce, in 1951. She subsequently became the mother of two daughters.

She died in 2024 at the age of 103 as the last living active resistance fighter of the ÖVP Comradeship of Politically Persecuted and Confessors for Austria and was laid to rest at Vienna's Central Cemetery.