Hofrat Dr. Julius Schmidl

Julius Schmidl is born as the son of a trader in Sonnenberg (Erzgebirge/Böhmen) and attends five classes of the Volksschule. He then comes to the Jesuit Gymnasium in Mariaschein (Gemeinde Graupen, Bezirk Teplitz; now Bohosudov, Krupka and Teplice), where he took the Matura in 1919. From March to November 1918 he is at the K. u.k. army, where he is first at the officer school in Gablonz (next Jablonec) and then at the Piavefront.

After the Matura, Julius Schmidl goes to Vienna and begins his studies at the Faculty of Law and State Sciences of the University of Vienna (Dr. iur. 1923), where he joined Franco-Bavaria in 1919. After his studies, he first completed the legal year and entered the service of the Lower Austrian Government in 1924. There he is head of the Department of Trade Promotion.

In 1939 Julius Schmidl was released and moved to the German Wehrmacht in 1940. He makes the Russian campaign within the 6th. army, but before the battle of Stalingrad is transported to home as a result of a disease. After the recovery, he is temporarily stationed in Saloniki and in the final phase of the war he arrives in Russian prisoners of war from which he returns in 1945.

In 1945 Julius Schmidl was rehabilitated and re-entered into the service of the Lower Austrian state government and took over his old position as head of industrial development. At the beginning of the fifties he is appointed as the Court Council and is the senior official of the departments to be involved in the economy.