Georg Graf von Thurn-Valsassina

Georg Graf von Thurn-Valsassina attended the Schottengymnasium in Vienna and later the Gymnasium Hollabrunn. After graduating from high school, he began studying law in Vienna in 1918 and transferred to the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Prague in 1919. After graduating in 1922, he continued his studies at the Tharandt Forestry Academy near Dresden. A year later, he took over the management of his father's estate in Waltsch near Karlovy Vary. After the death of his father, he moved to Hagenegg Castle in 1928.

In 1929, he joined the Heimatschutz. In April 1934, he became district leader of the VF in Eisenkappel and in May 1934, he was appointed provincial youth leader of "Jung Vaterland" and district leader of the Farmers' Union. In the fall of 1934, he was appointed Federal Youth Leader and entrusted with the development of the State Youth - Austrian Young People. In 1936, he became a member of the Ostaricia Vienna secondary school fraternity. From 1934 to 1938, he was a member of the State Council.

After the Anschluss, he resigned as Federal Youth Leader and was imprisoned from April 23 to August 28, 1938 and again in the summer of 1944 in the Klagenfurt provincial court, where he was subsequently transferred to Dachau concentration camp. On April 30, 1945, he managed to escape back to Austria on the so-called death march from Dachau to Tyrol near Bad Tölz.