Josef Buchta

Josef Buchta joins the student fraternity Amelungia while studying theology in Vienna in 1911. He is appointed as parish administrator in Wilfleinsdorf and is then transferred to Niederabsdorf in the fall of 1939 as a temporary parish administrator and religion teacher. Due to the denunciation of an anti-church senior teacher, he is banned from school and arrested on 22.11.1939. He remained in custody in the police prison on Rossauer Lände in Vienna until January 16, 1940.

After his release, he was not allowed to be employed for nine months. In 1944, he was then sentenced to a security fine of 1,500 Reichsmarks for a statement about the treatment of Russian prisoners of war in the Kaisersteinbruch camp, which was deemed to be an anti-state statement.