Edi Finger
Eduard “Edi” Finger was born in 1924, the son of Gottfried and Josefine Finger. His father was a day labourer, sometimes employed as a bricklayer, sometimes as a construction manager. In the interwar period of fascism, Gottfried Finger was considered politically unreliable and  was not even employed in the construction of the Großglockner High Alpine Road . Josefine Finger had to support the family. She received a weekly wage of 15 shillings for hauling heavy mortar containers. Despite the meager family income, Edi went to the Higher Federal Trade School in Klagenfurt , specializing in electrical engineering.  He graduated in 1943,  in the middle of the Second World War .  His father Gottfried  was taken to a hospital in Graz in the winter of 1942, with kidney inflammation, where he died.