abs. iur. Alois Flatscher

Alois Flatscher from East Tyrol attended the Franciscan grammar school in Hall/Tyrol, where he graduated in 1915. He joined the Sternkorona Hall secondary school fraternity in 1913. After the First World War, he returned from captivity in 1919 and began studying law in Innsbruck.

In addition to his studies, he worked as a civil servant for the Invalidity Compensation Commission in Tyrol. In 1923, he joined the Mattersburg District Court in Burgenland, transferred to the Eisenstadt District Court in 1925 as second lawyer and became deputy district governor of the Oberwart District Court in 1926. In the same year he married Marianne Gebhart from Innsbruck and a year later became the father of a son of the same name. In 1934, he returned to Hall and became an official of the VF.

After the occupation of Austria, he worked as an accountant. He makes no secret of his Austrian sentiments. This ultimately becomes his undoing. Following a denunciatory report, he was arrested by the Gestapo in Hall on August 25, 1941 for political reasons and taken to the district prison in Innsbruck. After an interim stay in the Reicherrau labor education camp, he was taken to the Dachau concentration camp in January 1943 and transferred to the labor detachment in Lublin [camp subordinate to the Majdanek concentration camp] on 28 January 1944. As Russian troops approached the camp, the remaining 229 camp inmates were sent on a death march to Auschwitz in July 1944. According to an eyewitness report, Alois Flatscher was in a very poor state of health. This is where his trail is lost. When the transport arrived in Auschwitz, 94 prisoners, including Alois Flatscher, were missing. Either he was unable to cope with the exertions of the march or he was shot by the guards between Lublin and Auschwitz because he was unable to march. Alois Flatscher was declared dead by the Innsbruck District Court on October 31, 1950. The date of his death is officially set as July 31, 1944.

Alois Flatscher is also commemorated by name at the liberation memorial on Eduard-Wallnöfer-Platz in Innsbruck among those who died for Austria's freedom, as is a memorial plaque donated to him by the Sternkorona Hall secondary school fraternity at the Franziskanergymnasium in Hall in Tirol.