DI Ernst Marboe

Ernst Marboe is born as the son of a k.k. state railway officer, grows up in the Fasan district of the third district of Vienna and visits the real school in Radetzkystraße (3rd district), where he takes the Matura in 1926. He then began studying electrical engineering at the Technical University of Vienna (Dipl. Ing. 1936). In 1929 he joined the student association Bajuvaria. During his studies he is engaged in the Catholic-German High School (KDHÖ) at the Technical University, at times his chairman and after 1933 he was a senior member of the Austrian High School.

After studying, Ernst Marboe joined the service of the Lower Austrian Government in 1936. He is released in March 1938. At least later, in the event of a traffic accident, he is violated by a truck of the German Wehrmacht in a life-threatening manner, the handler of which is found guilty in a court proceedings. Ernst Marboe is then in hospital for months and consequently incapable of defence, which saves him the war service.

After health recovery, Ernst Marboe finds an employment in an enterprise that has to do with the production and distribution of vehicle energy (gas, petrol). At the end of the war, the family moved to Salzburg and lives in Strobl am Wolfgangsee. The reason is that they have taken up two Frenchmen fled from a labour camp and are therefore afraid of persecution by the Nazi authorities, who are partially particularly rigid in the phase of the collapse of the Third Reich. After the end of the war, Ernst Marboe will find employment in the local transport of the city of Salzburg, which is to be restored.

In 1945 Ernst Marboe moved to the Federal Press Service of the Federal Chancellery. In 1948, on behalf of the Federal Press Service “Das Österreich-Buch” he issued, which he has already begun to write in Strobl. As a result, this book experiences several editions and is also translated into the four most important languages. The sold edition of the German-speaking edition reaches a six-digit number. “The Austrian Book” is distributed free of charge to schools and, after the hostages of National Socialism and War, is intended to push back the ideas of connection in Austria and convey a positive picture of Austria. It continues the politically strongly promoted Austrian gratitudes in the 1930s, also as a diametral contrast to the Nazi big German thought.

Ernst Marboe will later be head of the Bundestheater.