OStR Josef Carl Aschauer SJ

Josef Carl Aschauer was born in Vienna-Döbling, the son of Josef Aschauer, who worked for Wiener Lokalbahnen, and his wife Rosa. After elementary school, he attended the lower level of the Realgymnasium and the Oberrealschule in Baden near Vienna, where he graduated in 1921. That same year, on July 29, 1921, he joined the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) SJ in St. Andrä in Carinthia. In 1923 he took his first vows and was sent to the Jesuit-run Kollegium Kalksburg as a music prefect (music teacher). In 1925, he was transferred to Pullach near Munich to study philosophy for three years. Immediately afterwards, he returned to teaching music at the Kalksburg College.

On July 26, 1932, Josef Carl Aschauer was finally ordained a priest in Innsbruck. In the following years, he worked as editor of several Marian magazines. After briefly teaching music again at the Kalksburg College, he began studying to become a teacher of German and English in 1936. In this role, he also witnessed the demise of a free and independent Austria with the invasion of the German Wehrmacht on March 12, 1938.

In the summer of 1938, the new rulers closed the Jesuit-run Kalksburg College. Josef Carl Aschauer then decided to evade the Nazis and was sent to England by his superiors before the start of the war. He was not interned at the beginning of the war, but was able to continue his studies at Beaumont College in Old Windsor.

In 1946, Josef Carl Aschauer returned to Austria and immediately completed his teaching qualification in German and English. When the Kalksburg College reopened on September 29, 1947, he was the new teacher. In 1948, he founded the first scout group at Kalksburg. He later became the provincial curate of the Vienna Scouts. He is also involved in the Marian Congregation.

He subsequently teaches English, German and drama at Kalksburg College before having to retire at the end of the 1963/64 school year due to illness.