Dr. Eberhard (Josef Josef) Kusin OFMCap

Born in 1915 in Witkowitz/Mähren in today's Czech Republic, Josef Kusin comes to Austria after the First World War. He visits the Akademische Gymnasium in Graz and enters the Kapuzinerorden in 1936, where he receives the order name Eberhard. He works as a theology student in youth work at the Order's Hauslehranstalt in Scheibbs in NÖ.

From here, he was shown by the Gestapo in 1939 because he did not want to accept the belongings of the Reich, and went to Vienna, which he was on the 1st. May 1940 must also leave. As a stay, Prague (Praha-Loreta) is finally assigned to him, where he is first. July 1941 receives the priesthood. In 1943 he was arrested again by the Gestapo on the grounds that "Objection to the NS state“ and delivered to the police prison in Sasmuk (Zasmuky). There is no evidence for a judicial persecution. Eberhard Kusin will be here on 20.10.1943 KZ Theresienstadt and later on 8.1.1944 KZ Dachau override. On the evacuation march from Dachau, he escapes when the Americans came and survives the collapse of the Third Reich.

After the war, he studies history in addition to his pastoral activity at the Vienna University and holds a doctorate in philosophy. After his doctorate in 1951 he teaches at the Hauslehranstalt of his church history. After closing, he takes over new tasks. Thus, he is the Kapuzinergruft in Vienna for many years, the tomb of the Habsburgs, where he can use his historical knowledge well. Here it is his great merit to have kept this national monument from destruction by the pewter. For many years he is a pastoralist of the Catholic Higher Education Council and for the homes of academic aid. In this context it is also known with the CV and enters the Rugia at the age of 47. From that time on, his whole life applies to the assets of the CV. For more than 20 years he is a pastoralist of the Viennese CV.

He dies in Vienna at 71 years.