Dr. Josef Kittelmann

Hailing from Eisenstadt, Josef Kittelmann graduated from the Benedictine grammar school in Ödenburg (Sopron/Hungary) in 1917 and then did his military service in the First World War, ultimately as an ensign.

He studied veterinary medicine in Vienna and was accepted into the Norica student fraternity on December 9, 1921. He was also one of the co-founders of the Forchtenstein secondary school fraternity, founded in 1924, and the following year of the academic fraternity Peisonia in Frauenkirchen [now the Austro-Peisonia fraternity in Vienna]. After completing his studies, he took up a position as a state civil servant in the new province of Burgenland, which had been incorporated into Austria, as an official veterinarian for the district administration of Oberwart.

With the Anschluss, he was immediately relieved of his duties on March 12, 1938 and taken into protective custody until March 19. On 20.9.1938, he was dismissed from the service and banned from working until 7.3.1939. He then worked as a freelance veterinarian in Lockenhaus (now Burgenland).

After the war, he took up the post of official veterinarian at the Oberpullendorf district authority