Oberschulrat Gertraud Margaretha Jedliczka (geb. Döttling)

Gertraud Döttling (later married name Jedliczka) was born in Gröbming as the daughter of Alois Döttling, later Styrian provincial secretary of the Christian Social Party, member of the provincial parliament and federal councillor, and his wife Josefine, née Sparovic. The family originally came from Berzdorf near Reichenberg in what is now the Czech Republic, but moved to Styria after the collapse of Austria-Hungary in 1918. Her older brother, Alois Döttling, was still born in Berzdorf, whereas her younger sister Martha Döttling was also born in Gröbming.

After attending elementary school, she went to secondary school and then attended the teacher training college in Hofzeile in Vienna's 19th district. During this time, she became involved in the Katholisches Jungvolk [today: Katholische Jugend] and the Marianische Kongregation. The devout family is strictly anti-Nazi.

As a schoolgirl, Gertraud Döttling witnessed the downfall of Austria when the German Wehrmacht invaded on March 12, 1938. After the occupation of Austria, Friedrich Theiss founds the Austrian Front [also known as Theiss Group or Austrian Movement], a group seeking the separation of occupied Austria from the German Reich. This organization recruits members and even founds its own women's group under the leadership of Gertraud Döttling's classmate Josefa Breuer. Monthly membership fees are collected, excursions and training courses are organized and pro-Austrian publications are produced. She even considered setting up her own military group under the leadership of Alois Döttling and Franz Vochozka.

Both through her classmate Josefa Breuer and her brother Alois Döttling, who knew Friedrich Theiss through the Österreichische Jungvolk [note: youth organization of the Vaterländische Front], she was recruited for the Austrian Front and became actively involved in it. She finally graduated in March 1939 and began working at the former Spallartgasse elementary school in 1940.

When the anti-aircraft gunner Leopold Buliczek, who was also a member of the Austrian Front, was caught trying to escape to Hungary, he revealed the existence of the Austrian Front group around Friedrich Theiss to the Gestapo after interrogation.

On February 8, 1940, Gertraud Döttling was arrested by the Gestapo at school. She is taken to the Rossauerlände detention center (also known as Elisabethpromenade) and transferred to Regional Court I after three months. On the day of her arrest, she is released from the school service. She was finally released on June 13, 1940.

After she was banned from working as a teacher, she worked as a payroll accountant until the end of the war.

On December 17, 1941, the group around Friedrich Theiss, the members of the "Austrian Front", were finally put on trial before the Special Court. At this trial, Gertraud Döttling was sentenced to 8 months in prison for offenses under the law against the formation of new political parties (with credit for pre-imprisonment, the remainder of the sentence was suspended).

Immediately after the end of the war, Gertraud Döttling was rehabilitated and took up a teaching position at the elementary school in Goldschlagstraße in Vienna's 15th district in July 1945. She marries master carpenter Johann Jedliczka in 1948 and joins the ÖVP-Kameradschaft der politisch Verfolgten und Bekenner für Österreich. One year later, their son is born. Unfortunately, she was widowed just one year later and became a single mother. In 1972, Gertraud Jedliczka became principal of the Märzstraße elementary school in Vienna's 14th district.