Hofrat Dr. Hans Loibl

Hanns Loibl was born the son of a postal clerk and came from a humble background. Thanks to a scholarship, he was able to attend the Stiftsgymnasium or boarding school in Melk, where he joined the Nibelungia Melk middle school fraternity. After graduating from high school in 1930, he began studying at the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the University of Vienna (Dr. iur. 1935) and joined the Rudolfina student fraternity in the same year.

Hanns Loibl worked at the post office from 1933, attended the chamber stenographer course during this time and in 1935 was taken on as a contract employee in the stenographer's office of the so-called "House of Federal Legislation", as the parliament was called in the "corporative state" at the time.

In the course of the Anschluss, Hanns Loibl was dismissed for political reasons. He was subsequently taken on by the German Intelligence Office and transferred to Bratislava, the capital of the then independent Slovakia, in 1941.