Ingenieur Josef Baur

After graduating from a technical college, Josef Baur moved to Vienna and began studying there. Shortly before the occupation of Austria by Hitler's Germany, he joined the Rudolfina student fraternity in February 1938. However, the war prevented him from continuing his studies.

From February 1945 until the end of the war, Josef Baur maintained a secret radio station in his house in Sulz/Vorarlberg, through which he kept in contact with the American legation in Bern for the resistance groups in Tyrol and Vorarlberg. He was honored by the Americans after the war for this assistance.

After the war, Josef Baur and three other employees founded the "Physikalisch-Technische Werkstätten" in 1945 in his father's disused embroidery shop in Sulz. The young company's first customer was the City of Vienna, which ordered a custom-made, highly sensitive mine detector. The company subsequently became one of the world's leading companies in the field of testing and measurement technology.