Dr. Franz Lichal

Franz Lichal is born as the son of a school waiter in the Wiener Vorstadt Nikolsdorf (Wieden) and attends the real school in Vienna-Fünfhaus (Henriettenplatz), where he maturates in 1907. He then begins his studies at the Veterinary School in Vienna (Diplom-Animal Doctor 1913; Dr. med. vet. 1914) and joins the student association Rudolfina. At the end of the summer semester of 1908 he founded Rugia as a connection for students at the Veterinary College with four other veterinarian students from Rudolfina. It is therefore considered a pen of the Rugia.

After the end of the study in 1913, Franz Lichal becomes an official veterinarian in the service of the municipality of Vienna and is recruited as a military veterinarian in the rank of a senior Lieutenant in the First World War. As such, it is used on the Russian front, in Serbia, in South Tyrol and in Transylvania. After the war, he is again working as an official veterinarian of the municipality of Vienna in the Magistrate Department 43, where he reaches the rank of an Upper Veterinary Council before 1938 (corresponding to an Obermagistrat Council).

After joining in March 1938, Franz Lichal is released and retired with reduced remuneration. After 1945, he was rehabilitated as a municipal officer and retired in 1954, on which occasion he was awarded the title Senate Council. He is engaged in the company of veterinarians and is there temporarily chairman. He was buried in the Döblinger cemetery.