Ministerialrat Dr. Friedrich Adalbert Lang

Friedrich Adalbert Lang was born in Vienna as the legitimate son of the Viennese magistrate Friedrich Lang and his wife Karoline, née Perihle. After elementary school, he attended the state grammar school in Vienna's 8th district [today: Piaristengymnasium], where he graduated in 1917. He was then drafted into the First World War and returned home in November 1918.

On March 12, 1938, Friedrich Lang witnessed the demise of a free and independent Austria with the invasion of the German Wehrmacht. He was arrested on March 17, 1938 and deported on April 2, 1938 on the so-called 'Prominent Transport' to the Dachau concentration camp. He was officially dismissed from the civil service on February 1, 1939. After Hitler's invasion of Poland, Dachau concentration camp was cleared for the SS at short notice and Friedrich Lang was transferred to Flossenbürg concentration camp on September 27, 1939. He was transferred back to Dachau concentration camp on March 2, 1940. He was released from the concentration camp on January 30, 1942, returned to Vienna and was drafted into the Wehrmacht on April 28, 1943.

As a prisoner of war, Friedrich Lang witnessed the liberation of Austria and the re-establishment of the Republic in April and May 1945. He returned to Vienna on September 25, 1945, was rehabilitated and reinstated into the civil service. After working briefly in various ministries, he was appointed Head of the Victims' Welfare Department at the Federal Ministry for Social Administration in 1951. In 1962, he married Christina Rudolf, née Pürrerfelner.