MinR Dr. Julius Sophia Maria Karl Freiherr von Bischoffshausen

Julius Sophia Maria Karl Freiherr von Bischoffshausen was born in Groß Roschau [Hungarian: Nagy-Boschán, today: Rościszewo in Poland] as one of eight legitimate children of Julius Georg Karl Freiherr von Bischoffshausen and Klotilde Maria Anna Gabriele Stefanie, née Freiin Zeßner von Spitzenberg. His mother is a relative of the Austrian university professor Hans Karl Freiherr Zeßner von Spitzenberg, who later becomes the first Austrian victim in a concentration camp after the occupation of Austria.

After elementary school, his family moves to Vienna in 1882 and he attends a grammar school there, where he eventually graduates. Julius Freiherr von Bischoffshausen then enrolled in law at the University of Innsbruck in the winter semester of 1891, but transferred to the University of Prague in the summer semester of 1993, where he graduated in 1894.

He then moved to Vienna and began working at the Federal Ministry of Social Administration. In 1912, he married Cäcilie Mußner from Bad Hall. He retired as a ministerial councillor in January 1926. The marriage broke up in 1927 and was not divorced until 1938.

On March 12, 1938, the staunch Austrian witnessed the demise of a free and independent Austria with the invasion of the German Wehrmacht. He was critical of National Socialism from the very beginning. Time and again, he made it possible for deserters or racially persecuted people to stay with him for a short time.

In 1941, Julius Freiherr von Bischoffshausen married Ida Milan, a native of Weitra. From the founding of the Gruppe Freies Österreich/Gruppe Karl Gruber (FÖ) around the writer Karl Gruber, Julius Freiherr von Bischoffshausen became involved in this group. He helps distribute flyers and the campaign newspaper 'Freies Österreich! Blätter für Friede, Freiheit und Fortschritt'.

In the early fall of 1944, the resistance group was exposed and Julius Freiherr von Bischoffshausen was arrested by the Gestapo on September 30, 1944 at the age of 73. After preliminary investigations, the arrested members are handed over to the People's Court for prosecution for 'preparation for high treason'. Only the defeat of the Third Reich saved the members from a trial and the death penalty. While in prison, he is denied an important eye operation, which is why the sight in his left eye suffers greatly. He is released from the prison in Vienna-Margareten on 6 April 1945.

After the liberation of Austria, Julius Freiherr von Bischoffshausen joins the ÖVP-Kameradschaft der politisch Verfolgten und Bekenner für Österreich. He died childless at the age of 95 in his apartment in Vienna-Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus

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