Josef Aigner jun.

Josef Aigner was born in Linz as the son of Carolinen Dr. Josef Aigner (senior), attended grammar school here and went to Graz to study law. In 1931, he was admitted to the student fraternity Carolina. He obtained his doctorate in December 1935 and, after practising in court, went to work for an industrial company in Linz.

After the Anschluss, he was arrested on March 13, 1938 and accused of giving the front-line militia unit he commanded orders to shoot on the occasion of the invasion of the German Wehrmacht. On May 24, 1938, he was sent to the Dachau concentration camp under a protective custody order. He is also involved in the so-called Maleta commemoration ("Dachaukommers") on 18.8.1938 in the canteen of Dachau concentration camp to mark the 50th anniversary of Carolina's founding. On April 20, 1939, he was released as part of an amnesty on the "Führer's birthday".

As a former concentration camp inmate, however, he was unable to find employment and therefore volunteered for the Wehrmacht in May 1939 and fell on September 27, 1941 near Zhukova, 70 km south-east of Smolensk, in Russia.