DI Franz Grünseis

Franz Grünseis was born in Natternbach in Upper Austria, the son of farmers Roman and Catharina, née Humer. After elementary school, he transferred to the grammar school in Linz, where he graduated in 1914. He was then drafted into IR 14 (Linzer Hessen) in 1915 and left the First World War as a first lieutenant.

Franz Grünseis enrolled in agriculture at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna in the winter semester of 1918 and joined the student association Austria Wien in the same semester. In 1924, he graduated from this university and began working for the Lower Austrian Chamber of Agriculture. He is also secretary of the Farmers' Union in Burgenland and editor of the Burgenländisches Volksblatt. He is instrumental in the founding of the secondary school association Forchtenstein Eisenstadt in 1924 and becomes an honorary member. In 1929, he moved to the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and was finally promoted to head of department in 1936. He became involved in the Patriotic Front and the Catholic Academic Association.

As an opponent of National Socialism, he was dismissed following the occupation of Austria by the Third Reich and forced to retire in 1939. He then worked as an accountant in the seed department of the agricultural office.

After the liberation of Austria in 1945, he was immediately rehabilitated and reinstated in the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. There he advanced to head of section. He died in Vienna in 1951.