DI Albert Hochleitner

Albert Hochleitner is born as the son of the district forester and Christian-socialist member of parliament Anton Hochleitner. Among other things, he is also the forester of an estate owned by Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne. Hochleitner had 17 siblings and attended elementary school in Rauris and grammar school in Salzburg. After graduating from high school in 1914, he immediately began studying agriculture at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences in Vienna (Dipl. Ing. 1923), where he joined the Austria Wien student fraternity. However, he was soon drafted into the k. u. k. Army (Infantry Regiment Archduke Rainer No. 59) (last rank: First Lieutenant of the Reserve) and was seriously wounded. After the war, he resumed his studies.

After completing his studies, Hochleitner was employed by the Lower Austrian Chamber of Agriculture (including District Chamber of Agriculture Secretary in Wolkersdorf). From 1931, he was a civil servant in the Ministry of Agriculture and was appointed Ministerialrat in 1936.

On April 1, 1938, Hochleitner was forced to retire and then worked in the private sector (head of an export office in Vienna until 1941 and then head of a gravel plant in Styria). At the end of the war in 1945, he stays in Rauris, rejoins the Chamber of Agriculture - now in Salzburg - and becomes its director.