DI Rudolf Kloss

After graduating from secondary school in Vienna, Rudolf Kloss studied structural engineering at the Vienna University of Technology. In 1920, he was accepted into the Amelungia student fraternity. After graduating as an engineer in 1928, he initially joined the provincial civil service in Lower Austria before switching to the federal civil service in 1933 and being appointed government building commissioner at the Ministry of Trade in 1934. In the 1920s, he organized several pilgrimages to Rome as part of the "Academic Pilgrimage". In addition to his job, he was General Secretary of "Neues Leben", the VF's welfare organization, from 1933 to 1938.

In the course of the Anschluss, Rudolf Kloss was arrested on the night of 11 March 1938 and taken out of service. He was then taken to the Dachau concentration camp on the first transport, the so-called Prominent Transport, on April 2, 1938, where he was imprisoned until March 13, 1939. After his release, he initially found work in the army construction office and later as a civil engineer.

After the war, he played a key role in the reconstruction of Austria as head of the building and civil engineering section in the Ministry of Trade and Reconstruction - including the creation of the water management and housing reconstruction funds.