Hofrat Chefredakteur Raimund Anton Poukar

Raimund Anton Poukar was born in Vienna, the legitimate son of railroad official Heinrich Poukar and his wife Katharina, née Schubert. After elementary school, he attended the state secondary school in Vienna's 4th district [today: Bundesrealgymnasium Waltergasse], where he graduated in 1914. In the same year, he enrolled at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Vienna, but dropped out after six semesters. Whether he was then drafted into the I.

In 1919, he joined the Austrian Federal Civil Service and subsequently worked for the press service of the Federal Chancellery. It can be assumed that he worked for the Vienna Heimatschutz and joined the Vaterländische Front in 1934. Between 1933 and 1938, he worked on the weekly magazine 'Der Christliche Ständestaat'. In 1935, he wrote the brochure 'Dr. Ignaz Seipel. Nationalism, National Socialism' for the Austrian Press Service. A staunch Austrian and strict opponent of National Socialism, he vehemently opposed the German attempts to occupy Austria.

On March 12, 1938, Raimund Poukar witnessed the demise of a free and independent Austria with the invasion of the German Wehrmacht. He was arrested by the Gestapo on March 12, 1938, dismissed from his job and deported to the Dachau concentration camp on April 2, 1938 on the so-called 'Prominent Transport'. When Dachau concentration camp was evacuated for the SS at short notice in September 1939 due to Hitler's attack on Poland, he was one of around 100 prisoners who remained in Dachau concentration camp. He is released from prison on November 12, 1939. From July 24, 1944 to July 31, 1944, he was again briefly arrested.

In Vienna, Raimund Poukar witnessed the liberation of Austria and the re-establishment of the Republic in April and May 1945. He was immediately rehabilitated and appointed deputy press officer at the Federal Ministry for Trade and Reconstruction. In the same year, he married Maria Pongrácz and subsequently became the father of a child. He joins the newly founded Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and the ÖVP-Kameradschaft der politisch Verfolgten und Bekenner für Österreich. In 1946, he was assigned to the Federal Ministry of Education and became editor-in-chief of the 'Wiener Zeitung', which was based there at the time. He held this position until 1957, when the President of the National Council Felix Hurdes requested him as press officer.