Univ.-Prof. Dr. Hans Nusko

After graduating from high school, Hans Nusko began studying law at the University of Vienna, which he completed in 1913 with a doctorate. From 1912, he was a civil servant.

After the First World War, in which he took part as a soldier, he worked in the budget section of the Federal Ministry of Finance, then in the President's Office and the Banking and Stock Exchange Department, and in 1935 he was appointed Ministerial Councillor and Deputy Governor of the Postal Savings Bank. In 1926, he received a lectureship in tax and duty law at the Hochschule für Welthandel. After his habilitation in 1932, he worked as a lecturer and from 1935 as an associate professor.

After the Anschluss, he was forcibly retired in 1939 and drafted into the Wehrmacht. Until the end of the war, he was a member of the resistance group around Major Karl Biedermann, commander of the Groß-Wien army patrol division. Major Karl Biedermann joined the resistance group led by Major Carl Szokoll, which was formed within the Wehrkreiskommando XVII. In order to save Vienna from major destruction, this group wanted to support the Red Army in the liberation of Vienna. The plan 'Operation Radetzky' drawn up for this purpose is betrayed and Major Karl Biedermanmn, after a summary court-martial, is sentenced to prison with First Lieutenant Rudolf Raschke and Captain Alfred Huth were hanged on April 8, 1945. Hans Nusko narrowly escaped this fate.