Ministerialrat Dr. Julius Kallus

Julius Kallus from Korneuburg attended the teacher training college in St. Pölten, where he passed his school-leaving examination in 1906. In the same year, he became a primary school teacher in Vienna, passed the teaching qualification examination for secondary schools and taught in Floridsdorf. In addition to his work as a teacher, he prepares for the teaching profession at secondary schools at the University of Vienna.

In 1907, Julius Kallus is accepted as the first probationary member (Fuchs) of the Danubia student fraternity. Julius Kallus also took part in the founding of the Markomannia (now Marko-Danubia) secondary school fraternity in Korneuburg in 1908. As the Matura at the teacher training college was not yet recognized as fully valid for university studies at the time, he completed his Matura at the Stiftsgymnasium in Klosterneuburg. In 1916, he obtained a doctorate in philosophy, but was only able to take the teaching examination in 1918 due to military service. Julius Kallus was appointed professor at the teacher training college in Linz and, from 1923, in the reform department of the Federal Ministry of Education. In the years that followed, Julius Kallus played a key role in the reorganization of the school system and made a name for himself with numerous specialist publications.

The National Socialists did not approve of his basic ideas, which can be found in his history textbook, and he was arrested at his workplace. Via the police prison in Elisabethpromenade, he was sent to Dachau concentration camp on June 17, 1938 and was held there for three months. After his release on September 20, 1938, Julius Kallus was forcibly retired and had to report to the Gestapo on an ongoing basis. As he was barred from practicing his profession, he joined a community of settlers in Floridsdorf that he had co-founded. He works in the resistance group "Geheimgruppe Dr. Lerch".