Post- und Telephoninspektor Lorenz Handlos (geb. Heinitz)

Lorenz Heinitz was born in Vienna as the illegitimate son of the servant Anna Heinitz and the bricklayer Laurenz Handlos. After his parents married in 1904, he took his father's surname. After finishing school, he began working at the post and telegraph office.

In 1929, he married the Jewish woman Martha Waidhofer; the marriage remained childless. Lorenz Handlos was not politically active in the 1920s and 1930s.

On March 12, 1938, free and independent Austria came to an end with the invasion of the German Wehrmacht. With the occupation of Austria, German legislation was adopted and with it the 'Nuremberg Race Laws', according to which Lorenz Handlos lived in a 'mixed marriage'. The fact that he is an 'Aryan' saves his wife from deportation.

As a civil servant, Lorenz Handlos is pressured into divorcing his wife. After he refuses, he is forced to retire on April 1, 1940.

Martha and Lorenz Handlos eke out the rest of the occupation of Austria on a small pension. In April and May 1945, they witnessed the liberation of Austria and the re-establishment of the Republic. Lorenz Handlos was rehabilitated on April 30, 1945 and returned to service. He joins the newly founded Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and the ÖVP-Kameradschaft der politisch Verfolgten und Bekenner für Österreich.

After the death of his first wife, Lorenz Handlos married Hertha Bringfriede Parkož, née Hohn, in 1961. He retired as a postal worker and died in Vienna at the age of 78. He finds his final resting place at the cemetery in Vienna Southwest.