Wilhelm Auer

Personalia

Born:

May 1, 1906, Vienna

Died:

October 22, 1966, Vienna

Profession:

Postal clerk

Memberships

ÖVP Comradeship of the politically persecuted and confessors for Austria

Curriculum Vitae

Wilhelm Auer is born in Vienna, the legitimate son of coachman Josef Auer and Karoline, née Baierl. He has a twin brother. After finishing school, he began working for the postal and telegraph administration.

Little is known about Wilhelm Auer. Just before the occupation of Austria on February 27, 1938, he married Aloisia Berghofer, also born in Vienna, and subsequently had a daughter and a son with her.

The undersigned, Wilhelm Auer, [...] hereby declares on oath that he was assaulted, abused and physically injured by the Nazis during his arrest in 1938 (March 12).

Among other things, his head was bloodied and his face and eyes were injured.

Declaration by Wilhelm Auer dated February 1, 1949

Wilhelm Auer is released from prison on March 31, 1938 and is dismissed from the postal and telegraph service on June 1, 1938.

After his release from prison, little is known about his whereabouts, except that he moves to the 2nd district of Vienna.

After the liberation of Austria and the re-establishment of the Republic in 1945, he joined the newly founded Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and the ÖVP-Kameradschaft der politisch Verfolgten und Bekenner für Österreich. He is rehabilitated and reinstated in the postal and telegraph service.

Wilhelm Auer dies in Vienna at the age of 60 and is laid to rest in Vienna's Central Cemetery.

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Citations

Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchiv (WStLA)

Matricula Online

Wilhelm Auer

Postal clerk
* May 1, 1906
Vienna
† October 22, 1966
Vienna
Dismissal, Detention