Erich Fiala was born in Purkersdorf, studied in Vienna and obtained a doctorate in political science in June 1935.

Victor Luithlen, son of an official in the Ministry of Trade and Transport, obtained a doctorate in music at the University of Vienna in 1927 with a work on Johannes Brahms.

Erwin Rosenthal, born in Breslau, was the only son of the doctor, musician and composer Felix Rosenthal and his wife Elisabeth, née Donat, known as Else.