Hofrat Dr. Julius Schmidl

Julius Schmidl was born the son of a tradesman in Sonnenberg (Erzgebirge/Bohemia) and attended five years of elementary school there. He then went to the Jesuit grammar school in Mariaschein (municipality of Graupen, Teplitz district; now Bohosudov, Krupka or Teplice), where he passed his A-levels in 1919. From March to November 1918 he was in the k. u. k. After graduating from high school, Julius Schmidl went to Vienna and began studying at the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the University of Vienna (Dr. iur. 1923), where he joined the Franco-Bavaria student fraternity in 1919. After completing his studies, he first completed a year in court and then joined the Lower Austrian provincial government in 1924. Before the Anschluss, he was head of the trade promotion department.

In 1939, Julius Schmidl was dismissed and drafted into the German Wehrmacht in 1940. He took part in the Russian campaign as part of the 6th Army, but was transported home before the Battle of Stalingrad due to illness. After recovering, he was temporarily stationed in Salonika and was taken prisoner of war in Russia in the final phase of the war, from which he returned home in 1945.