Hofrat Dr. Otto Glaser

Personalia

Born:

October 4, 1889, Zistersdorf

Died:

January 28, 1975, Vienna

Profession:

Tax officer

KZ Number:

25535

Memberships

Austrian People's Party, ÖVP Comradeship of the politically persecuted and confessors for Austria

Curriculum Vitae

Otto Glaser was born in Zistersdorf in Lower Austria as the legitimate son of the timber merchant Moritz Glaser and his wife Cäcilia, née Glück. The family is Jewish. After elementary school, he attended the communal grammar school in Lundenburg [today: Břeclav in the Czech Republic], where he graduated in 1908. In the same year, he enrolled in law at the University of Vienna, where he was awarded a doctorate in law in 1914. In the same year, he converted from the Jewish to the Catholic faith and began practicing law. This was interrupted by his call-up to the First World War on January 16, 1915.

As a soldier, Otto Glaser experienced the defeat of Austria-Hungary, the break-up of the Dual Monarchy and the expulsion of the House of Habsburg. He returned home on November 19, 1918 and continued his court practice from December 5, 1918 to October 15, 1919.

On June 23, 1921, Otto Glaser began working in the Austrian tax administration in an. In 1924, he married the Catholic Anna Pulpan, transferred to the penal division in 1925 and became the father of a son in 1926.

On March 12, 1938, Otto Glaser witnessed the demise of a free and independent Austria with the invasion of the German Wehrmacht. With the occupation of Austria, German legislation is adopted and with it the 'Nuremberg Race Laws', according to which he is considered a 'full Jew' who is married to an 'Aryan woman'

The secretary of the municipality of Berlicum confirms
that Dr. Otto Glaser had to work in the forced labor camp in Havelte, Drente from 13.III. 1944 to mid-September 1944 and escaped from there,
that Dr. Otto Glaser in the cellar of the church in Berlicum in October 1944 during the fighting once when the Germans in the cellar demanded everyone's credentials, warned the people in the cellar a minute beforehand that the German officers would come and look for the deserters who were in the cellar,
that immediately afterwards the Germans came and demanded the credentials,
that the 3 or 4 German deserters in the 2nd cellar were hidden in time, otherwise they would have been killed. cellar were hidden in time, otherwise all the people in the cellar would surely have been shot,
that Dr. Otto Glaser had saved the lives of all the people in the cellar at the time.

The municipal secretary of the municipality of Berlicum on May 28, 1947

After the start of the fighting around Berlicum as part of the British operation 'Market Garden', he fled to Herzogenbusch and after the liberation by the British army on October 25 or 26, 1944, he returned to Berlicum.

Even before the final liberation of Austria in May 1945, Otto Glaser returned to his family in Vienna and reported back to work in the Austrian tax administration on April 27, 1945. He joins the newly founded Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and the ÖVP comradeship of the politically persecuted and confessors for Austria. He is appointed to the Vienna Financial Directorate. Shortly before his retirement, he has a serious accident in November 1954, which leaves him with a severe walking disability. He finally retired on December 31, 1954.

After the death of his wife in 1973, Otto Glaser moved in with his son, who had since emigrated to Thalassa in Dublin, Ireland. He died there at the age of 85 and found his final resting place in Deans Grange Cemetery.

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