Hofrat Dr. Walter Urbarz

Walter Urbarz was born as the son of secondary school professor and later secondary school principal Ottokar Urbarz and initially grew up in Klosterneuburg because his father worked there. Before the Anschluss, he was a member of the Marianische Studentenkongregation and the Österreichisches Jungvolk as a high school student.

In early 1939, he came into contact with the Austrian Freedom Movement of the Klosterneuburg canon Roman Scholz, for whom he produced leaflets. This was discovered in the summer of 1940 and Walter Urbarz was taken into custody on August 16, 1940. He was imprisoned in various prisons, most recently in Anrath (now the municipality of Willich, Viersen district, North Rhine-Westphalia), where the "Historical Prison Museum Niederrhein" is now located. Although he was charged with preparation for high treason in September 1942, he was released before the trial in February 1944 on April 5, 1943. He was then drafted into the German Wehrmacht. Towards the end of the war, he was taken prisoner by the British, where he worked as a speaker for the BBC.

Walter Urbarz returned from captivity at the beginning of 1946 and began studying at the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the University of Vienna (Dr. iur. 1949). During this time, he joined the Nordgau Vienna student fraternity.