Edmund Weber

Edmund Weber was one of the co-founders of the Nibelungia Vienna secondary school fraternity in 1915. After graduating from the teacher training college in 1919, he did not pursue a career as a teacher but turned to journalism. From 1919 to 1922, he was editor of the "Deutsches Volksblatt". During this time, he attended lectures in German studies and education at the Faculty of Philosophy at Vienna University as an associate lecturer.

In 1924, Edmund Weber took over the management of the press service of the Lower Austrian agricultural organizations. He also worked as a press consultant for the Lower Austrian Chamber of Agriculture, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Austrian Federal Farmers' Union. In 1926 he was appointed head of the "Agrarische Nachrichtenzentrale", shortly afterwards he became director of Agrarverlag. In 1933, he was appointed Director of the "Amtliche Nachrichtenstelle" (ANA) and Deputy Chairman of the Federal Press Service. He is also editor of the "Politische Korrespondenz" and the "Österreichische Woche". He leaves the Chamber of Agriculture and joins the Federal Civil Service. From 1936, Edmund Weber was a member of the VF Fuehrer Council.

During his work at the Lower Austrian Chamber of Agriculture, Edmund Weber also came into contact with the Amelungia student fraternity, which made him an honorary member in 1937, followed by honorary membership of Franco-Bavaria six months later.

As he had placed the newsroom in the defensive struggle against National Socialism, he was arrested immediately after the Anschluss on March 12, 1938 and, after a short stay in the Vienna Regional Court, was sent to Dachau to a concentration camp. In the fall of 1939, he was transferred to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. On December 19, 1940, the Vienna District Court sentenced him for embezzlement "to 2 years in a hard prison, aggravated by a hard camp". After his release from the concentration camp on December 20, 1941, he was drafted into the German Wehrmacht shortly afterwards on January 16, 1942.

Immediately after the war, Edmund Weber made himself available to the newly founded ÖVP. Federal Chancellor Leopold Figl appointed him head of the Federal Press Service in the Chancellery in 1947. During this difficult time, he also held the position of General Director of the "Österreichischer Verlag" publishing house, where all ÖVP press articles were published. His health was affected by his long imprisonment in a concentration camp and he died at the age of 48. "Only a man deeply moved by his vocation was able to cope with this excess of activity" - according to Leopold Figl in an obituary.