Oberleutnant AR RegR Ing. Jaromir Anton Burghart (geb. Brzorád)

Jaromir Anton Brzorád was born in Waidhofen an der Ybbs, the legitimate son of engineer Josef Brzorád and Catharina, née Weihrauch. After elementary school, he attended the grammar school in Waidhofen an der Ybbs, where he graduated in 1914.

He then went to the Pioneer Cadet School in Hainburg, where he served in Infantry Regiment 59 'Erzherzog Rainer' and was sent to the Russian and Italian fronts. On September 5, 1918, he was taken prisoner of war in Italy, from which he returned home as a first lieutenant on November 11, 1919.

In 1920, Jaromir Brzorád enrolled at the University of Metallurgy in Leoben [today: Montanuniversität Leoben]. In 1921, Jaromir Brzorád changed his name to Jaromir Burghart. In 1925, he left the university with the title of engineer, moved to Waidhofen an der Ybbs and began working for a master builder in 1926.

In 1932, Jaromir Burghart moved to the Federal Ministry for Social Affairs and at the same time became involved in the regional leadership of the Lower Austrian Heimatschutz. From 1934 to 1936, he was Chief of Staff to the State Secretary for Public Security. In 1936, he finally became adjutant to the Vice Chancellor of Austria, Field Marshal Lieutenant Ludwig Hülgerth.

The Austrian Federal Government under Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg did everything in its power to oppose the approaching National Socialist threat. Jaromir Burghart takes decisive action against National Socialists in his sphere of influence. On March 12, 1938, however, he witnessed the demise of a free and independent Austria with the invasion of the German Wehrmacht.

On September 1, 1938, Jaromir Burghart, who was taken over by the German Wehrmacht, was assigned to the Luftwaffe. On March 1, 1939, at the request of the Gestapo, he was classified as 'unworthy of military service' and discharged from the Wehrmacht. After being warned that another Gestapo warrant had been issued for his arrest following his discharge from the Wehrmacht, he went into hiding on the estate of his friend, Hubertus Graf Bissingen in Braubach am Rhein. He lived on the estate as a submarine until January 31, 1941.

On February 1, 1941, when the arrest warrant was no longer valid, Jaromir Burghart came out of hiding and was conscripted as an engineer at the Frankfurt company Lurgi Chemie. On April 9, 1945, he was once again arrested by the Gestapo as an opponent of National Socialism. During an air raid on May 6, 1945, just before the surrender of the Third Reich, he managed to escape and flee to the approaching American troops. There he helped the CIC [note: Counter Intelligence Corps] in Thuringia until the federal state was handed over to the Russian army. The CIC took him to the British zone on June 6, 1945, where he briefly helped the SIS [Note: Secret Intelligence Service].

In December 1945, Jaromir Burghart then returned to Vienna, his homeland, via Linz. Upon his return, he was immediately rehabilitated and worked in the Federal Chancellery from March 1, 1946, before moving to the Academy of Fine Arts as Director of the Chancellery. He joins the newly founded Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and becomes involved in the ÖVP Comradeship of the Politically Persecuted and Confessors for Austria. In 1949, he finally moved to the Austrian Gallery Vienna. In 1952, he married the pharmacist Hermine Urvary, née Baumann.