DI Johann Rudolf Babinsky

Johann Babinsky was born in Vienna as the legitimate son of the sergeant of the same name at the Imperial and Royal Military Geographical Institute in Vienna, Johann Babinsky and Maria, née Vitek. After elementary school, he attended the state secondary school in Vienna's 2nd district. After the death of his mother, his father died in 1913, which is why the captain's widow Maria Ander took over the guardianship. In May 1916, Johann Babinsky interrupted school and enlisted in World War I. World War I. He graduated in June 1917 and began studying civil engineering at the Vienna University of Technology in the summer semester of 1918. He lived in his garrison in Erdbergstraße until the fall of the Habsburg monarchy.

In May 1924, he graduated from the Vienna University of Technology and became a master builder. On March 12, 1938, Johann Babinsky witnessed the demise of a free and independent Austria with the invasion of Austria by the German Wehrmacht. Although his first marriage was to a woman who, according to the 'Nuremberg Racial Laws', was a 'Mischling I. He refuses to divorce her, thereby protecting her from persecution.

Johann Babinsky repeatedly came into conflict with the Gestapo due to his anti-Nazi and Austrian views and was imprisoned between November 4, 1939 and February 17, 1939. He was imprisoned between November 4, 1939 and November 17, 1939, February 1940 and February 22, 1940, May 11, 1941 and January 26, 1942 as well as June 27, 1944 and July 6, 1944.

Unbeknownst to him, he joined the resistance group led by Albrecht Gaiswinkler from Bad Aussee, who later became a Social Democratic member of the National Council. He was the Viennese base leader for this group, supplying resistance fighters with weapons for their partisan activities and passing on information.

[Note: Albrecht Gaiswinkler was deployed by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) for a secret mission in the territory of the former Austria ("Ebensburg" mission). This organization, founded by Winston Churchill in 1940, had the task of organizing resistance in the countries occupied by the Wehrmacht and also had an Austrian section, for which Gaiswinkler was recruited. The main task of this section was to establish contacts with existing resistance organizations and to supply them with weapons, explosives, radio equipment and information.]

In Vienna, Johann Babinsky witnesses the liberation of Austria in May 1945 and the re-establishment of the Republic. He joins the ÖVP-Kameradschaft der politisch Verfolgten und Bekenner für Österreich. He marries a second time in 1964.