Maria Theresia Haag (geb. Hochmayer)

Maria Theresia Hochmayer was born in Perchtoldsdorf as the legitimate child of the merchant Rudolf Hochmayer and his wife Anna, née Pollhammer.

After finishing school, she continued to live at home until 1935, when she married Franz Haag, a chauffeur in the Federal Civil Service. However, the marriage remained childless. They are unlikely to have been politically active.

On March 12, 1938, Maria Haag witnesses the demise of free and independent Austria with the invasion of the German Wehrmacht. World War II broke out with the Third Reich's invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. Franz Haag is immediately drafted into the Wehrmacht.

In the Wehrmacht, Franz Haag meets Rudolf Steinberg, with whom he becomes very close friends. Rudolf Steinberg was a staunch opponent of National Socialism and asked Franz Haag in 1940 if he would like to join his resistance group. Franz Haag readily agreed.

There are no documents about the Rudolf Steinberg group; they were no longer available in the Wehrmacht archives at the Stiftskaserne in 1947; they had obviously been destroyed. The group was probably a small resistance group.

Franz Haag helped Rudolf Steinberg with the production and distribution of pamphlets. Maria Haag also helped transport the illegal pamphlets.

The group's activities did not go undetected by the Wehrmacht and Franz Haag was arrested on January 3, 1941. Although Maria Haag had to endure several house searches by the Gestapo, she remained undetected. She is not arrested.

As a housewife, Maria Haag experiences the liberation of Austria and the re-establishment of the Republic in April and May 1945. Her husband is taken on in the service of the Dorotheum in the new Austria, but his health suffers greatly due to his imprisonment, which is why he dies in 1952.

Maria Haag joins the newly founded Österreichische Volkspartei (ÖVP) and the ÖVP-Kameradschaft der politisch Verfolgten und Bekenner für Österreich. She died at the age of 69 and found her final resting place at the cemetery in Vienna-Ottakring.