Adalbert Pilat

Adalbert Pilat was born in Linz and attended the Catholic teacher training college from 1905 and the state grammar school in Linz from 1910. During these years, he was involved in the Catholic secondary school fraternity Alemannia, which later disappeared.

In 1917, he was drafted, having also mastered written and spoken Czech, and served as a year-old on the southern front, where he was taken prisoner by the Italians.

Only after his return on September 15, 1919, was he able to graduate from school and from 1920 he worked for the province of Upper Austria, from 1922 in the provincial accounting department. On October 18, 1924, he is involved in the founding of the Linz secondary school fraternity K. Ö. St. V. Siegfriedia Linz. He has been married to Berta, née Hieke, since 1923. Adalbert Pilat embarks on a career as a provincial accountant and joins the Fatherland Front in 1933 through his membership of the Austrian Heimatschutz. In 1936 he serves in the "Mühlviertel Jägerbataillon" and as adjutant to the Upper Austrian security director. For political reasons, Adalbert Pilat was taken into Gestapo custody for several weeks in August 1938 and released in October through forced retirement.

In 1939/1940, Adalbert Pilat organized opponents of the Nazi regime around him and began to form a resistance group. On July 22, 1940, he and later his wife Berta were arrested and transported to Dachau concentration camp on May 12, 1941, where he died of typhus in the camp hospital after liberation on May 17, 1945.