SC Dr. Franz Krisch

Franz Krisch attended grammar school in Hollabrunn, was drafted into the Imperial and Royal Army in 1916 immediately after graduating from high school. After the war, he began his studies at the Export Academy, which later became the University of World Trade in Vienna.

In 1919, he was accepted into the student fraternity Rudolfina. In 1920, he transferred to the University of Vienna to study law, where he received his doctorate in law in 1928. Alongside his studies, he worked at the Allgemeine Depositenbank in order to finance his studies. After completing his studies with a doctorate in law, he moved to the Lower Austrian provincial government and was assigned to the Horn district administration. In 1930, he had his Croatian surname Kriz changed to Krisch. In 1933, he was assigned to the Presidium of the Federal Chancellery under the leadership of Eugen Edler von Chavanne and became a civil servant there.

After the Anschluss, Franz Krisch was arrested by the Gestapo and held in police custody until June 9, 1938. After his release from prison, he was forced to retire with effect from December 31, 1938. In 1939, he worked temporarily as a private employee in Berlin and was drafted into the German Wehrmacht in 1941.

After the war, he followed his former superior in the Federal Chancellery of Chavanne and joined the newly created State Office for Public Works, Transitional Economy and Reconstruction, which was merged into the Federal Ministry for Trade and Reconstruction at the end of 1945. In 1950, he succeeded Chavannes as Head of the Presidential Section and was appointed Head of Section in 1951, a position he held until his retirement in 1964.