KR Dr. Hans Egon Gros

Hans Egon Gros has been a member of the Thuiskonia secondary school fraternity in Vienna since 1919. After graduating from Realschule Wien XVIII, he studied at the University of World Trade in Vienna and was accepted into the student fraternity Norica in 1922. He completed his doctorate in 1937. In 1933, he signed up to work for the VF in Vienna and subsequently became a functionary in Vienna.

Around midnight on March 12, 1938, he was arrested by the SA and interrogated in the former secretariat of the VF on the Hohe Warte. To his great surprise, he found a former official of the VF-Döbling as the commander of the SA group. After the interrogation, he was released the same night and taken home under SA escort. A few days later, he is arrested again at his company by the police, accompanied by SA men. He was detained for several hours at the Vienna XIX police station (Döbling). He is then taken to police station XVIII (Währing), where he finds various VF officials he knows well in an overcrowded cell, including Anton Pichler. After eleven days, he was transferred to the Police Detention Center Rossauer Lände in Vienna IX for interrogation and released from there at 2 a.m.

Hans Egon Gros founded a painting and decorating company in Vienna XIX in 1927 and a paint and varnish business in Vienna III in 1936. After the Anschluss in 1938, orders that had already been placed with him were withdrawn and the company's car was confiscated until August 1938.

In 1941, Hans Egon Gros was drafted into the German Wehrmacht and, after military training, was assigned to the commandant's office in Vienna with the help of ÖCVers. Here he was able to disarm in 1943. He then joined the Piebinger engineering company in Vienna as an accountant. This engineering office planned and carried out industrial buildings in the mountains on behalf of the Wehrmacht. Although this office is monitored by the SS, Hans Egon Gros, Dr. Anton List, Ernst Klein, Viktor Rasanz and Leopold Walzer, who are all in good contact with each other, also manage to avoid military service and find work in this company. Despite the Nazi terror, Hans Egon Gros and his family remained in contact with acquaintances who were classified as "Jews" or "half-Jews" by the National Socialists. In the Gauakt kept on Hans Egon Gros, his passive resistance to National Socialism is emphasized.

In 1941 and 1943, it is reported that his wife had regular contact with "Jewish women", although she was repeatedly warned by the women's association that this was contrary to national sentiment.