Univ.-Prof. Dr. Johann Wolfgang Amschler

Johann Wolfgang Amschler attended the Kreisoberrealschule in Bayreuth and began studying at the Faculty of Agriculture at the Technical University in Munich after graduating from high school. He had to interrupt his studies due to the First World War. After the war, he was able to complete his interrupted studies in 1922 at the Technical University in Munich with a doctorate in engineering, where he habilitated in 1928.

On July 13, 1927, he was accepted into Aenania in Munich. He undertook various research trips to Siberia, and in 1930 he was appointed professor at the Siberian Agricultural Academy in Omsk. In 1934, he moved to Vienna to the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), where he was appointed associate professor.

Here in Vienna, he also came into contact with Norica, of which he became a member. With the founding of the ÖCV after the split from the Imperial German CV, the original members of a German CV fraternity are required to change their original membership to an Austrian fraternity. In accordance with the regulations of the time, Johann Wolfgang Amschler therefore transferred to the Norica as an original member with the reception date of the Aenania. In 1935, he also became Bandphilister h. c. of the Pflug fraternity, which merged with Franco-Bavaria after the war.

After the Anschluss, Johann Wolfgang Amschler's house was searched and he was briefly imprisoned on March 15. He was also a victim of the second "purge" at BOKU:

"On March 15, 1938, after being arrested and sentenced by a so-called university tribunal, he was dismissed from his post and not reinstated."

As a result of his dismissal and retirement, his pension was "punitively reduced to the subsistence level of 140 Reichsmark per month". According to him, he worked as a private seed grower between 1940 and 1944.

During this time, he also made contact with the Maier-Messner-Caldonazzi resistance group led by the cooperator Dr. Heinrich Maier, who was executed on 22 March 1945.