Ministerialrat Dr. Otto Timp

Otto Timp was born in Vienna-Margareten and attended the secondary school in Vienna-Wieden (Waltergasse), where he joined the Herulia Wien in 1922. After graduating from high school with distinction in 1924, he began studying botany, zoology and geography as well as education and psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Vienna (teaching degree in natural history and geography in 1930; Dr. phil. in 1935), where he joined the student fraternity Rudolfina in 1926. From 1930, he taught at the private secondary school "Prof. Wilhelm Rainer" in Mauer, which was not yet part of Vienna at the time. At the end of December 1937, he became its provisional headmaster.

After the Anschluss in March 1938, Otto Timp was suspended from his post and officially dismissed in March 1939. During this time, he worked as an assistant teacher and unskilled laborer. After being drafted into the German Wehrmacht, he was employed as a psychologist and aptitude tester at an armaments company. After the war, he was rehabilitated and reinstated as a professor at the Academic Grammar School in Vienna in July 1945.

In 1946, he was called up to serve in the Ministry of Education. There, as part of the Teaching and Education Section, he headed the Career Guidance and Vocational Guidance Department, later renamed Career and School. He was also responsible for setting up the school psychology service. In 1947, he was finally transferred to the ministerial service. At the beginning of 1961, he became head of the Department of General Secondary Education and Teacher Training. He retired in 1970.