Regierungsrat Amtsrat Josef Franz Florian Führer

Josef Franz Florian Führer was born in Vienna as the legitimate son of the magazine maker Josef Führer and Anna Maria, née Kaltenbrunner. After graduating from high school, he attended the Lithographic Institute in Vienna, but was drafted into World War I in 1915. World War I. After returning home in 1918, he joined the Austrian tax authorities and worked in the tax office for the 3rd, 11th and 23rd districts of Vienna. In 1921 he married Anna Hermine Josefa Kafka. The marriage remained childless.

A devout Catholic and patriotic Austrian, he became involved in the 'World Movement against Racial Hatred and Human Misery', also known as the 'Harand Movement', founded by Moriz Zalman and Irene Harand. This private association is an attempt to pursue the concerns of the no longer existing 'Austrian People's Party', although the Harandbewegung is also part of the Vaterländische Front. From the autumn of 1933 until she stopped working in 1938, Irene Harand published the weekly magazine 'Gerechtigkeit', the mouthpiece of the Harand movement.

[Note: The 'Österreichische Volkspartei' was a bourgeois-liberal party that campaigned for economic security, compensation for war victims and the fight against class and racial hatred. The latter issue in particular was a unique selling point in the party landscape of the 1930s. Irene Harand, a convinced monarchist and Catholic, was for a long time close to the Christian Social Party (CSP). In the 1930 National Council elections, however, she stood as a candidate for the Austrian People's Party in some Viennese constituencies. She also acted as deputy chairman of the party.]

Josef Führer was promoted to the board of the Harandbewegung. On March 12, 1938, he witnessed the demise of a free and independent Austria with the invasion of the German Wehrmacht. He was immediately suspended from duty and arrested by the Gestapo on April 21, 1938. On May 31, 1938, he was forced to retire from the financial administration. He was finally released from prison on August 26, 1938.

World War II and the occupation of Austria. Josef and Anna Führer spend the Second World War and the occupation of Austria by the National Socialist German Reich on Josef Führer's small pension. In April and May 1945, Josef Führer witnessed the liberation of Austria and the re-establishment of the Republic. He was rehabilitated in May 1945 and reappointed to the tax office for the 3rd, 11th and 23rd districts of Vienna. He joins the newly founded Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and the ÖVP-Kameradschaft der politisch Verfolgten und Bekenner für Österreich.