DI Johann Mad

Johann Mad is born as the son of a baker and winemaker in Raab (Györ). There he visits the primary school and then the gymnasium. After his Matura in 1918 he took part in the First World War for a few months. After working for two years in the parental establishment, he visited the academy of agriculture in Hungarian-Altenburg in 1921, which he completed in 1924. He first runs his own business and then works as an employee in a sugar factory. He also insulates at the University of Soil Culture in Vienna. In 1930 he sponds and begins to work in the Burgenland Chamber of Agriculture.

As a persuasive opponent of National Socialism, Johann Mad is engaged in the paternal front. After the occupation of Austria by the Third Reich, he is immediately released. He is later assigned to the Neunkirchen County Farmership as an economic consultant. There he experienced the liberation of Austria in April 1945.

After the war, he is rehabilitated and chamber office director of the Burgenland Chamber of Agriculture. In 1953 he became President of the Catholic Action Burgenland and shortly later Vice President of the Catholic Action Austria. Johann Mad retired in 1961 and died in 1968.