Hofrat Dr. Hans Brandstätter

Hans Brandstätter attends grammar school in Kremsmünster. During the First World War, he was conscripted for 14 months. He then graduated in 1920 and worked as a bank clerk for the next five years.

He then began studying at the Faculty of Law in Vienna, graduating with a doctorate in 1930. In 1928, Hans Brandstätter joined the Kürnberg student fraternity. He began his professional career as a concept clerk, was then assigned to the district administration of Ried from 1934 and worked as a government commissioner for the Upper Austrian provincial government from 1938.

He was arrested together with Walter Ortner after the Anschluss on March 12, 1938 due to his work at the VF. After four months in prison in Ried and Gestapo custody in Linz, he was transferred to Dachau concentration camp on July 29, 1938. After his release as a political prisoner on August 31, 1942, he was dismissed by forced retirement in accordance with Section 4 of the Ordinance on the Reorganization of the Austrian Civil Service. Until the end of the war, he worked as an employee of Göring-Werke (now VÖEST) in Linz.