Ministerialrat Dr. Rudolf Zemrosser

Rudolf Zemrosser attended the German grammar school in Klagenfurt and graduated in 1906. In the same year, he was also one of the founders of Karantania Klagenfurt. He then went to Vienna to study law and became a member of the Rudolfina student fraternity in 1906. In 1907 he served as a one-year volunteer, first with Infantry Regiment 7 and then 17, where he left in 1908 due to unsuitability. Because he had a heart defect, he did not have to enlist in the First World War after his examination in 1915. He completed his legal training in Vienna in 1920 with a doctorate in law. In 1914, he began his professional career as a railroad official in Traiskirchen, then moved to the Vienna-Aspang railroad in Vienna III in 1917 as a railroad commissioner. As a senior railway councillor, he joined the railroad's tariff service department in Vienna-Aspang. From 1934 to 1938, he was also chairman of the student support association Akademikerhilfe.

In 1938, immediately after the Anschluss, he was arrested as a central inspector and head of department at the Federal Railway and, after suffering a nervous breakdown, was transferred from prison to the closed ward of the mental hospital in Vienna-Steinhof. It was only with great effort on the part of his wife and medical certificates from cartel brothers that he managed to be released so that he would not be gassed.