Dr. Emmerich Czermak

Emmerich Czermak attended grammar school in Iglau [Jihlava/Czech Republic] on the Bohemian-Moravian border and graduated in 1903.

He then went to Vienna to study to become a teacher. In 1903, he joined the Nordgau student fraternity in Vienna. After graduating in 1907, he became a teacher and later a director. He is very active in student fraternities.

He is also politically active: in 1921 he is elected to the Stockerau municipal council for the CSP and becomes deputy mayor in 1927. From 1921 to 1934, he was a member of the Lower Austrian provincial parliament and from 1934 to 1938, he was a member of the Provincial Parliament - Representative for Science and Art. From 1929 to 1932, he was Minister of Education.

From 1934 to 1938, he was President of the Lower Austrian Provincial School Board. In this function, he was suspended immediately after the Anschluss and dismissed from the civil service at the end of March 1938. On March 24, 1938, he was arrested in his apartment and held in police custody until April 5, 1938. He then earned his living as an insurance agent.

After the war, Emmerich Czermak was rehabilitated and initially worked as a public administrator at Viktoria Versicherung AG and from 1953 to 1955 as President of the Austrian-Dutch Society.