Dr. Otto Färber

Otto Färber came from a Protestant family in Urach (then Kingdom of Württemberg) and grew up in Marbach and Bad Cannstatt. After graduating from high school, he began studying at the TH Stuttgart-Hohenheim in 1911. After a year, he moved to Tübingen to study history at the university's Faculty of Philosophy. He had been interested in religious and ecclesiastical issues since his school days, which is why he converted to the Catholic faith in 1912. He then joined the student fraternity Cheruskia Tübingen in 1912.

He was seriously wounded in the First World War and was taken prisoner of war in Russia. After the war, he completed his doctorate in Freiburg in 1918. He then worked first for the Catholic Academics Committee and then in the party office of the Bavarian People's Party, moving to Karlsruhe in 1924 to work as a journalist for Badenia Verlags AG. From 1924 to 1934, he was editor of the "Badischer Beobachter" and editor-in-chief of the "Zentrums-Pressekorrespondenz" in the state of Baden.

In 1934, he emigrated to Innsbruck as an opponent of the Nazis, where he worked as a journalist for the "Allgemeiner Tiroler Anzeiger" from 1935 to 1937.

After the Anschluss, he was arrested and sent to Dachau concentration camp on June 17, 1938. After his release, he worked as an accountant. From 1941 to 1943, he was drafted into the German Wehrmacht and deployed as a Russian interpreter on the Eastern Front. He then worked as an accountant in Göggingen/Württemberg.

After the war, Otto Färber worked as a journalist in Germany again and also became the Austrian Honorary Consul General for Württemberg from 1956 to 1965.