Alfred Gustav Grabner

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Alfred Gustav Grabner was born in Vienna as the legitimate son of the carriage owner Franz Grabner and his wife Katharina, née Mladoschitz. After six years of elementary school, he attended three years of secondary school and then completed a three-year apprenticeship as a car mechanic. He then worked briefly in his mother's grocery store before finding employment as a car mechanic.
Between 1933 and 1934, Alfred Grabner served in the Austrian army. He then became involved in the Heimatschutz and the Vaterländische Front. He married Adele Zeugner in 1936, but the marriage did not last long.
I frequented the home of Alfred Grabner, my wife helped out in Mrs. Grabner's business.
I listened to foreign broadcasts in Mr. Grabner's apartment on his newly purchased radio set.
I warned Mr. Grabner at the time not to pass on what he had heard. In his statements to me, he always expressed his support for a free, independent Austria. I never had the impression that Mr. Alfred Grabner only listened to foreign broadcasts out of curiosity, but out of his Austrian attitude and therefore warned him to be careful when passing on such messages. A short time later, Mr. Alfred Grabner was reported to the Gestapo by his mother's maid, Kuklovsky, and Franz Schneider, who was the NSDAP block warden in the building next door at Rauscherstrasse 29 and against whom proceedings were also pending before the People's Court for denunciation.
Alfred Grabner and his mother were arrested by the Gestapo on March 13, 1940. While his mother was apparently soon released, Alfred Grabner was tried at the Vienna Special Court on July 19, 1940, where he was sentenced to one year and six months in prison for 'broadcasting crimes'. He was released from prison on August 15, 1942 and returned to work as a car mechanic.
Alfred Grabner was drafted into the Wehrmacht on July 12, 1943 and assigned to a penal company, where he was taken prisoner of war.
As a prisoner of war, Alfred Grabner witnessed the liberation of Austria and the re-establishment of the Republic in April and May 1945. He was released from captivity on December 24, 1946 and returned to his hometown. He joins the newly founded Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and the ÖVP-Kameradschaft der politisch Verfolgten und Bekenner für Österreich.
Alfred Grabner subsequently returned to work as a car mechanic, married three more times and became the father of two children.
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