Hildegard Maria Führing

Hildegard Maria Führing is born in Jaroslau in Galicia [today: Jarosław in Poland] as the legitimate daughter of Michael Führing and his wife Maria, née Oppermann. The family moved to Vienna, where Hildegard Führing grew up. After primary and secondary school, she attended a commercial college and worked as a clerk in a bank from 1911.

Even after the defeat of Austria-Hungary, the break-up of the dual monarchy and the expulsion of the House of Habsburg, she remained in Vienna and worked as a clerk in a bank. In 1923, Hildegard Führing joins the Christian Social Party (CSP), but leaves it again in 1925.

On March 12, 1938, the devout Catholic witnesses the demise of free and independent Austria with the invasion of the German Wehrmacht. In January 1940, Karl Lederer recruited her directly as a member of the resistance group 'Österreichische Freiheitsbewegung'. She takes the oath to the organization and pays her membership fee