Dr. Hans Vanura

Hans Vanura graduated from the 1st state grammar school in Graz, where he joined the Markomannia-Eppenstein-Graz secondary school fraternity in 1915. In 1917 he was drafted into the Imperial-Royal Army. After the war, he continued his schooling at the Piaristengymnasium in Vienna, where he graduated in 1919. He then enrolled at the Faculty of Law and Political Science in Vienna and became a member of the Norica student fraternity in 1919. After obtaining his doctorate in law in 1926, he joined the civil service of the province of Lower Austria and was appointed to the district administration of Krems on the Danube. Here he became deputy district governor in 1934 and was entrusted with the police department. Krems was also the seat of the illegal NSDAP district leadership for Lower Austria. For this reason, he often had to intervene in Nazi demonstrations.

After the Anschluss, he was immediately suspended from duty, arrested and taken into protective custody in Krems from March 16 to 19, 1938. He also had to endure two house searches and ten interrogations. He is under Gestapo surveillance. In February 1939, he was dismissed from the state service without being cleared. In the years that followed, he supported his family with jobs in the business world, namely as managing director of the K.E. Damisch Fahrzeug-Fabrik in St. Pölten in 1939/40 and then as commercial manager of the Huber cable factory

After the liberation of Vienna, Hans Vanura met his father on April 16, 1945 in the Palais Auersberg.1945 at Palais Auersberg, the headquarters of the resistance movement 05, Hans Vanura meets Leopold Figl