DI Karl Kopeindl

After graduating from secondary school, Kopeindl began studying agriculture at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences in Vienna (Dipl.-Ing.), where he joined the Amelungia student fraternity in 1922. During this time, he also became involved in university politics as a student representative. After completing his studies, he joined the Lower Austrian Chamber of Agriculture in 1927 and was the chamber secretary at the District Chamber of Agriculture in Gföhl (Krems-Land district, Lower Austria).

In 1930, Karl Kopeindl moved to Salzburg, where he was a crop inspector at the Provincial Council of Agriculture (the predecessor of the Chamber of Agriculture). In 1936, he was appointed deputy director of the now established Salzburg Chamber of Agriculture.

In the course of the Anschluss in 1938, he was dismissed from his position for political reasons, had to flee from the persecution of the SA and went into hiding in Purkersdorf near Vienna for some time.

Kopeindl was subsequently able to take up the position of estate manager at the castle and estate in Ebenfurth (district of Wiener Neustadt-Land, Lower Austria). This estate was badly affected by the flood of refugees and the events of the war (Red Army) in 1945, and it was no easy task for Karl Kopeindl to restore it.