Willi weds Annemarie

Willi met his future wife Annemarie at Camp Wetzelsdorf, the second detention camp in which he was kept. She was confined there in the small women's section because of her membership and participation in the NSDAP.  Willy was released in February 1947, before she was, and after meeting with her parents in Graz, he immediately began classes at the Franz Karls University in that city, adding to the credits he had already gained during the war. With a student grant from the governor of his home state Kärnten, he then enrolled in a doctoral program at the Univ. of Graz which he completed on 22 December 1948. At that time, he and Annemarie were married.