Josef Binder
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Josef Binder was born in Korneuburg as the legitimate son of the painter and decorator Anton Binder and Petronella, née Zajsček. After finishing school, he completed an apprenticeship as a painter and decorator and became a master painter and decorator. In 1919, he married Hilde Lachmann, with whom he had one child.
In the 1920s and 1930s, Josef Binder lived a politically inconspicuous life as a master painter in Vienna. On 12 March 1938, Josef Binder witnessed the demise of a free and independent Austria with the invasion of the German Wehrmacht.
In November 1939, Josef Binder joined the resistance group Austrian Freedom Movement led by the former official of the Procurator's Office of Finance Karl Lederer. From July 1940, a good 300 people from these resistance groups were betrayed by the castle actor Otto Hartmann (Otto Hartmann was subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment in 1947 and pardoned in 1957) and Josef Binder was arrested by the Gestapo on January 10, 1941. He spent his pre-trial detention in Leoben and Graz. On July 29, 1942, he is released from prison without trial. He was banned from working and was only allowed to work as an attic sprayer. His marriage broke up in 1944. He moves his belongings and his child to Leoben to better protect them from danger.
In Vienna, Josef Binder witnesses the liberation of Austria and the re-establishment of the Republic in April and May 1945. He joins the newly founded Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and the ÖVP-Kameradschaft der politisch Verfolgten und Bekenner für Österreich and becomes self-employed again as a master painter and decorator, takes both his child and his belongings from Leoben and marries Aloisia Lienarz, widowed Albrecht.
He retires as a master painter and decorator and dies at the age of 74 in Korneuburg.
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