Anna Stubenvoll was born in Vienna. She was opposed to the incorporation of Austria into an enlarged German state which took place during the first part of 1938, and made her apartment in Pulkau (some distance to the north of Vienna) available to "Schlurf" activists. According to court documents the activists' objectives included 'eternal faithfulness to [my independent] Austria' and 'the forcible separation of the Reichsgau from the Greater German state ("Großdeutsche(n) Reich")'.