Polizeimajor Adolf Brestan

Adolf Brestan was born in Vienna, the son of civilian guard Josef Brestan and Anna, née Novacek. After school, he trained as an engraver, chaser and punch press operator, but joined the Field Howitzer Regiment No. 9 'Count Egmont von Geldern' as a soldier in 1905, where he disarmed as a platoon leader in 1908 and joined the Vienna police force on October 22, 1908.

In 1914, Adolf Brestan was drafted into the First World War. World War I was drafted. In 1916, he married Margaretha Josefine Kanka and returned from the war in 1918.

He was then employed as a police inspector in Vienna-Neustift am Walde. In the 1930s, he joins the Vaterländische Front and becomes a squad leader and flag escort. He was also a member of the business association.

Immediately afterwards, he belustrates three National Socialists on the street who are already wearing the swastika armband and tears it off one of them.

Adolf Brestan is denounced and arrested by the Gestapo on March 17, 1938. He remained in custody until June 10, 1938 and was immediately suspended from duty. On December 31, 1938, he was officially dismissed through forced retirement.

During the entire period of German occupation, Adolf and Margaretha Brestan lived on a small forced pension until they were allowed to experience the liberation of Vienna in April 1945. He was rehabilitated on April 27, 1945, reinstated to duty and from then on managed the guardroom in Vienna-Währing. He subsequently joined the ÖVP-Kameradschaft der politisch Verfolgten und Bekenner für Österreich.