Univ.-Prof. Dr. Walter Antoniolli

Walter Antoniolli was born the son of a railroad official. (The birthplace of Innsbruck mentioned in some publications is incorrect). He attended grammar school first in Korneuburg and then in St. Pölten. There he joined the Catholic secondary school fraternity Nibelungia St. Pölten in 1924. After graduating from high school in 1926, he began studying at the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the University of Vienna, joined the K. a. V. Norica and graduated in 1932.

After practising in court and working briefly in business, Antoniolli became a civil servant in the St. Pölten magistrate's office on March 5, 1934 and was assigned to the magistrate's directorate. After the Anschluss in March 1938, Walter Antoniolli was dismissed from the municipal service as politically unreliable. In 1943, he was finally drafted into the German Wehrmacht.

After the war, Walter Antoniolli was reinstated as a civil servant at the St. Pölten City Council, but soon moved to the Constitutional Court, habilitated, became a member of the Constitutional Court, Vice President and finally President of the Constitutional Court in 1958. He remained so for 19 years, making him the longest-serving Constitutional Court President of the Second Republic.