abs. iur. Eduard Tomaschek

After graduating from high school, Eduard Tomaschek studied law in Vienna and passed the third state examination in 1915. He was then taken on as a civil servant in the civil service. In the summer of 1922, he moved to the Ministry of Social Administration, where his last position was as a section councillor. From 1920/21 he was a member of the CSP and from 1934-1938 a member of the VF and the Federal Economic Council. In 1920, he joined the Gewerkschaft christlicher Angestellter im öffentlichen Dienst (Trade Union of Christian Civil Service Employees) and became its president in 1925.

After the Anschluss, Eduard Tomaschek was dismissed from the civil service and taken into protective custody until September 1938. After his release, he is employed as an hourly bookkeeper. He had to report regularly to the Gestapo.

In the proceedings before the 5th Senate of the Administrative Court on 23/24 November 1943, Eduard Tomaschek was accused of having visited Otto von Habsburg abroad four times between 1933 and 1937 "to discuss ongoing civil service and workers' issues", he "also sent reports to him and forwarded Otto von Habsburg's replies to the envoy von Wiesner [Friedrich Ritter von Wiesner (1871-1951)]". Despite the proven visits to Otto von Habsburg, however, Eduard Tomaschek's "collaboration in the legitimist movement" [Müller-Thanner] could not be proven:

"The accused Tomaschek immediately and abruptly refused to collaborate, claiming that he had made a declaration of loyalty upon his release from protective custody, which he was determined to fulfill."

Furthermore, the court stated that Eduard Tomaschek "confessed to having thought about whether he should report the incident [the invitation to join the resistance group] to the police. However, as he deliberately failed to do so, he made himself liable to prosecution (§ 139 StGB)."

He was therefore "sentenced to one year in prison", with seven months of pre-trial detention deducted.