Oberschulrat Dr. Josefa Cäcilia Breuer

Josefa Cäcilia Breuer was born in Vienna, the daughter of fitter Franz Anton Breuer and his wife Josefa Theresia, née Patsch. After elementary school and lower school, she transferred to the teacher training college in Hofzeile, in Vienna's 19th district. From 1934, she was involved in the Austrian Young People. She finally graduated in March 1939, first completed a typing course and was accepted at the Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt in the fall of 1939. In January 1940, she started as a provisional teacher at the elementary school in Mödling.

From her work with the Austrian Young People, Josefa Bauer knew Friedrich Theiss, who, like her, was a devout Catholic and strictly opposed to National Socialism. After the occupation of Austria by the Third Reich in March 1938, Friedrich Theiss founded the Austrian Front [also known as Theiss Group or Austrian Movement], a group that sought the separation of occupied Austria from the German Reich. This organization recruits members and even founds its own women's group. Monthly membership fees are collected, excursions and training courses are organized and pro-Austrian publications are produced. They even considered setting up their own military group under the leadership of Alois Döttling and Franz Vochozka. Josefa Breuer becomes active in this organization and actively recruits female members.

Josefa Breuer is the treasurer of the organization, collects membership fees and actively participates in the meetings of the "Austrian Front".

When the anti-aircraft gunner Leopold Buliczek, who was also a member of the Austrian Front, was caught trying to escape to Hungary, he revealed the existence of the Austrian Front group around Friedrich Tisza after interrogation by the Gestapo.

On February 7, 1940, Josefa Breuer was arrested together with the other members of the Austrian Front after a Gestapo house search. She was taken to the Rossauerlände prison (also known as Elisabethpromenade) and transferred to Regional Court I after three months. She was finally released on June 13, 1940.

The National Socialist authorities refused to reinstate her as a teacher. She therefore took a job as a shorthand typist.

On December 17, 1941, the group around Friedrich Theiss, the members of the "Austrian Front", were finally put on trial before the Special Court. At this trial, Josefa Breuer is sentenced to 10 months in prison for offenses under the law against the formation of new political parties (with credit for the previous sentence, the remainder of the sentence was suspended). The probation period lasted until February 20, 1945.

Immediately after the end of the war, Josefa Breuer was rehabilitated and took up a teaching position at the elementary school in Atzgersdorf in Vienna's 23rd district in June 1945. She joins the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and the ÖVP-Kameradschaft der politisch Verfolgten und Bekenner für Österreich, became a board member of the latter and later also a board member of the Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstands (DÖW).

In 1968, Josefa Breuer was finally appointed head teacher at the Steinlechnergasse 5 elementary school in Vienna's 13th district. In 1973, she received her doctorate in education. At the end of March 1983, she retired as principal of the Steinlechnergasse 5 elementary school.

Josefa Breuer then continued to live in Vienna, where she died unmarried and childless.