Ottilie Lexer

Ottilie Lexer is born in Klein St. Paul as the daughter of a peasant. At the age of 28, she marries the Gendarmarie officer Georg Lexer, stationed at this time in Kitschdorf. Together with her husband, she often changes her place of residence, especially since Gendarmarie officers are often assigned to training at different places. 1922 Son Georgia and 1923 son Wunibald to the world.

Her husband Georg is involved in the Nazi coup attempt at Klagenfurt in July 1934 in bloody struggles. There are also dead among the Nazis and governmental troops.

In February 1938 on severe pneumonia. Dismissed in house care, Gendarmariepostenkommandant Georg Lexer is released from 11 to 12 at night. March, although fiebering and bed-ridden, arrested by his own submissive gendarmes, who already carry hook-and-seat armbands during arrest, and delivered to the local court prisoner Klagenfurt. In a trial before the Nazi People's Court, he will have committed a murder at the battles of a Nazi in July 1934. The proceedings before the People’s Court are terminated, inter alia, because of the reasoning “in a war will inevitably be shot” (a statement by the Chair Judge). Georg Lexer, however, is not released, but is taken over by the Gestapo and in September 1938 into the KZ Buchenwald delivered where he was on 3. August 1941.

Around Easter 1941, Georg Lexer learns the super-liberary of the Air Force and opponents of the NS regime Eduard Pumpernig know. He and his brother Wunibald come to the Anti-fascist freedom movement of Austria (AFÖ) in contact. There are many conspirative meetings and drawings of Wehrmachtsanlagen are also created. Eduard Pumpernig is often a guest in Lexer's house. There he is also in contact with Ottilie Lexer.

During an excursion towards Gailtal, where escape routes are to be explored to Italy, there is a break between Eduard Pumpernig and Georg Lexer. Georg teaches his mother and his brother, but the first gives him too little faith.

After the anti-fascist movement of Austria (AFÖ), Ottilie Lexer is also arrested in September 1943. She's being severely abused in prison. Eduard Pumpernig had hidden a backpack in her house with dissidential signatures and ammunition. After his arrest in June 1943, she tried to sink the incriminating objects in a lake. They were found, however.

It is charged to the Volksgerichtshof for non-disclosure of a highly treasury company and on the 22nd. April 1944 to a year in prison, sentenced to preprisonment. She is released from custody in September 1944. Because of the abuses she suffered in custody, she dies in the hands of her son George on 29th. September 1944 in Klagenfurt.