!!!Hofer, Josef

b. Dorf an der Pram (Upper Austria), Nov. 9, 1898, 
d. Grieskirchen (Upper Austria), Jan. 6, 1958, police and 
administration official, resistance fighter. 1938 was a high official 
at the police authority in Linz, was later sent to a concentration 
camp; after his release he played an important role in the resistance 
movement against the Nazis in Upper Austria; established links with 
resistance movement groups of all political directions. After the war 
became chief official of Grieskirchen administrative district.



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