Dr. Josef Marschall

Josef Marschall visits the real school and enters the middle school compound Donaumark Wien in 1922 and the student association Danubia in 1926. From the summer of 1934 to 1938, he volunteered as a young academic in customs services without financial compensation to the Federal Commissioner for Human Resources in the Federal Chancellor's Office for the discovery of illegal NSDAP members and sympathizers in the staff stand there. This led to many hostilities and intrigues.

On March 11th, 1938, he gathered together with eleven other like-minded friends in the Deutschmeisterkaserne in Vienna-Rossau to resist the threatening invasion of the German Wehrmacht in Austria. In order to avoid any bloodshed, the government has ordered not to resist the connection. Josef Marschall and his comrades go to the ground as “Group Roßau”.

On 6.6.1938, Josef Marschall is dismissed and dismissed by the Court of Auditors. After a temporary loss of income, he receives an employment at the newly established prize-making office of the Reichsstatthalter in Vienna. He maintains contact with the conservative resistance group of the Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Karl Domansky (1890–1960), who was imprisoned from 17 to 20.3.1938 until his convocation to the Air Force in 1940. Because of the warfare, the secret bundling and the fight against National Socialism (Az. 4 K-St-L 539/40), marshal of 13.8. until 22.9.1940 taken by the field court in the Luftgau 17 in U-Haft and then transferred to the Gestapo in Vienna. By means of intervention from resistance circles in the air fleet IV, the method is set by General Superior Alexander Löhr (1885–1947) and Josef Marschall is transferred to the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia. Here he is contacting Dr. Leopold Pospisil, who, after two years in the KZ, leads a Czech underground movement, which announces leap bases for Soviet parachute jumpers to sabotage actions at the German occupation. In 1942–1943 Josef Marschall is employed in Hungary. Here he can help Marcell Herczeg, former Director General of Semperit-Werke AG and organizer of Jewish refugees in Vienna, in asset transactions abroad. At the beginning of the Jewish deportations, with Josef Marschall support, at least 60 Jews manage to escape from Hungary and thus save from the destruction in the gas chamber. After Belgium, he contacted the Resistance Organisation “White Brigade” and in France he works with the “resistance”. He can be wounded with their help in the Lazarett in Marseille.

After the war, Josef Marschall returns to the services of the Court of Auditors and is his Vice-President from 1959 until his death.