Johann Adolf Gaidatsch

Johann Adolf Gaidatsch was born in Vienna as the legitimate son of Leopold Gaidatsch and Josefa, née Sebor. Nothing has been preserved about his childhood and youth. After finishing school, he became an accountant.

In 1933, he joined the Vaterländische Front and subsequently became district leader of the Vaterländische Front in Vienna's 9th district. As such, he resolutely stood up for Austria's independence and against National Socialism.

On March 12, 1938, he witnessed the demise of a free and independent Austria with the invasion of the German Wehrmacht. On March 19, 1938, Johann Gaidatsch was arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned in the police prison in Simmering. After the occupation of Austria, he and other prisoners had to clear the streets of Vienna of crosses and patriotic Austrian slogans. On September 24, 1938, he was finally deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp. He was released from there on May 3, 1939.

On his return to Vienna, he found work as an accountant at the metal processing company E.F.Teich. He worked there inconspicuously for the rest of the war.

In April and May 1945, Johann Gaidatsch witnessed the liberation of Austria from the National Socialist occupiers and the re-establishment of the Republic. He married in the same year. The marriage remained childless. Even after liberation, he works at the metal processing company E.F.Teich and joins the newly founded Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and the ÖVP-Kameradschaft der politisch Verfolgten und Bekenner für Österreich.