Karl Krumpl

Karl Krumpl left his school education at the grammar school in Klagenfurt in the 3rd grade and trained as a typesetter at the "Carinthia" book printing company in Klagenfurt from 1924 to 1928; he remained employed here until 1934. In the 1930s, he was a functionary (secretary) of the VF. He is also active as a member of the Carinthian provincial parliament and on the administrative commission of the Carinthian Chamber of Labor. At the 1937 Christmas party, he receives the ribbon of the Nibelungia Klagenfurt secondary school fraternity (today Babenberg Klagenfurt) as an honorary member.

After the Anschluss, he is immediately taken into protective custody on 12 March 1938, where he is severely mistreated and released on 30 May 1938 by the district court of Klagenfurt.5.1938 by the district court of Klagenfurt to four months' detention in accordance with" § 411, 492 StG. u. § 2, 8, 32 u. 36 Waffenpatent" and on February 1, 1939 by the district court of Klagenfurt "for slight bodily harm and public violence" in accordance with" § 152, 155a, b, u. d., 155 and 99 St.G." to four years' hard labor. On July 12, 1941, he is conditionally released (remaining sentence of 1 year with probationary period conditionally suspended until June 30, 1946) and is reprimanded and employed as a payroll accountant at the company Hans Lehnhart & Co in Bruck a. d. Mur until his call-up to the Wehrmacht in September 1942 [to the Africa Corps in Tunis].

In the spring of 1942, a resistance group called "Anton Granig" (AFÖ) was founded in Carinthia at the suggestion of Pastor Dr. Antifascist Freedom Movement of Austria" in Klagenfurt. This also includes Arthur Trattler, Anton Jaklitsch, Ernst Ortner and Otto Tiefenbrunner. Under the leadership of Karl Krumpl, the resistance fighters plan the liberation of Chancellor Schuschnigg from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and have already secured the cooperation of guards. The organization is uncovered due to the lack of a stamp in the forged pay book of one of the main protagonists and the Gestapo arrests the leaders and members of the AFÖ who have come to its attention. Karl Krumpl was arrested on March 19, 1943, just before his deployment to the front in Tunis and taken to the Wehrmacht remand prison in Vienna X, Hardtmuthgasse. He was tried before the 5th Senate of the People's Court (VGH), which convened in Vienna from 9 to 11 August 1944 under the chairmanship of Dr. Albrecht from Berlin, on charges of preparation for high treason and aiding the enemy. Together with five other co-defendants, Karl Krumpl was then sentenced to death on August 11, 1944. The reasons for the verdict include:

"...The defendants ... Ortner, Krumpl, ... and Dr Pieller set up an organization with Habsburg-separatist aims in the years 1941-1943, particularly in Carinthia, or participated in these anti-state activities as accomplices. ... The defendants Dr. Granig, ..., Krumple, Dr. Steinwender and Dr. Pieller are sentenced to death and deprivation of honor for life for preparing high treason and aiding the enemy."

Shortly before the end of the war, Karl Krumpl is executed by guillotine on the last execution date in the Vienna Provincial Court on 22 March 1945. He left the cell with the cry "For Austria!"