Dr. Erich Koppensteiner

Erich Koppensteiner attended the Seipl grammar school in Vienna-Meidling. On July 26, 1943, he is drafted into the German Wehrmacht and joins the 109th sArt1Rgt in Brno. After a week he was arrested and held in custody in Brno for six weeks. He is then sentenced to two years in prison "for subversion of the armed forces".

However, this sentence is not accepted by General Heinrich Stümpel, the city commander of Vienna (later an active resistance fighter), but is commuted to three weeks of aggravated arrest, which has already been compensated for by the previous six weeks of pre-trial detention. Furthermore, as an additional punishment, he was forbidden to study at a university "in peace". Towards the end of the war, Erich Koppensteiner joined the "Hohe Wand" military resistance group in April 1945.