Karl Krumpl

Karl Krumpl cancels his school education at the Gymnasium in Klagenfurt with the 3rd class and learns the paperwork in the book printer “Carinthia” in Klagenfurt in 1924–1928; here he remains busy until 1934. In the 1930s he is a functionary (secretary) of the VF. He is also a member of the Kärntner Landtag and the administrative commission of the Chamber of Labour in Carinthia. In 1937 he receives the band of the middle school compound Nibelungia Klagenfurt (now Babenberg).

After the connection, he is immediately detained on 12.3.1938, severely abused there and on 30.5.1938 from the District Court of Klagenfurt to according to § 411, 492 StG. u. § 2, 8, 32 u. 36 Arms patent’ means four months of detention and on 1.2.1939 sentenced by the Landgericht Klagenfurt “due to slight bodily injury and public violence” according to § 152, 155a, b, etc., 155 and 99 St.G. On 12.7.1941 he is released (criminal period of 1 year with trial period until 30.6.1946) and receives Gauverweis as well as until his convocation to the Wehrmacht in September 1942 [to the African Corps in Tunis] an employment as a wage bookkeeper at Hans Lehnhart & Co in Bruck a. d. Mur.

In the spring of 1942, in Carinthia, on the suggestion of pastor Dr. Anton Granig, Klagenfurt launched a resistance group, whichAnti-fascist freedom movement of Austria“ (AFÖ). These include: Arthur Trattler, Anton Jaklitsch, Ernst Ortner and Otto Tiefenbrunnen. Under the line Karl Krumpl the resistance fighters 1942/43 plan the liberation Chancellor Schuschniggs from KZ Sachsenhausen and have already reached the participation of guard posts. The absence of a stamp in the fake Soldbuch of one of the main players reveals the organization and the Gestapo arrests the leaders and members of the AFÖ who became known to it. Karl Krumpl is arrested in Tunis on 19.3.1943 and sent to the Vienna X Wehrmachts Investigation Centre, Hardtmuthgasse. He is made before the 5th Senate of the Volksgerichtshof (VGH), which meets in Vienna from 9 to 11 August 44, chaired by Dr. Albrecht from Berlin, for preparation for the high treason and favor of the enemy. Karl Krumpl is then sentenced to death on 11.8.1944, together with five other fellow prosecutors. In the statement of reasons, it is stated that:

“...The defendants ... Ortner, Krumpl, ... and Dr. Pieller have created an organization with habsburg-separatist objectives in Carinthia in the years 1941–1943, or have participated in these anti-governmental exaggerations as co-workers. ... It is condemned: for preparation for high treason and hostage: the defendants Dr. Granig, ..., Krumple, Dr. Steinwender and Dr. Pieller for death and loss of honor for life. ‘

Shortly before the end of the war, Karl Krumpl will be executed by the Fallbeil at the last execution date in the Wiener Landesgericht on 22.3.1945. He leaves the cell with the call “For Austria!”

His mortal remains are exhumed in Vienna and buried in the cemetery in Klagenfurt St. Georgen a. Sandhof on 2.3.1946.