Dr. Wilhelm Aschböck

Wilhelm Aschböck grew up with his aunt in Lambach and attended Seitenstetten Abbey Grammar School, where he graduated in 1933. In the same year, he began studying law at the University of Vienna. In 1935, he was accepted into the Catholic student fraternity Pflug. He had just passed his viva when the German troops invaded Austria. After his year in court in Lambach, he joined the accounting officer reserve in the arsenal in 1940 and shortly afterwards became a clerk at the court martial. His attempt to join the military civil service failed because he was unable to produce a clearance certificate.

In September 1944, he was transferred back to the accounting officer reserve and in April 1945 was assigned to an alarm unit that was sent to Maria-Lanzendorf to defend Vienna, which he evaded.

When the court martial ordered a search for him, he was able to go into hiding in the Rudolfsspital in Vienna.