Alexander Moschen

This is the story of Alexander Moschen. He is in charge of building management. Compliance and dedicated devotion to duty are the hallmarks of his career.

Moschen was born in Innsbruck in July 1898. He found employment with the regional government at the age of 15. In the course of his working life, he took five different oaths of office: to the monarchy, the First Republic, the Ständestaat dictatorship, the Nazi regime and the Second Republic. Moschen adapted his political stance with every change of employer. He was a member of the Fatherland Front until the annexation by Nazi Germany, after which he joined the NSDAP.

During the Nazi period, his career took a leap forward and he became the head of building management, with responsibility for all the properties of the regional authority. His office was in the Landhaus. He primarily handled financial matters, collected the rents and served as paymaster to the personnel. He was in charge of over 100 employees. Plundering the Catholic Church was one of his everyday duties. Valuable objects were stored in a safe in the Landhaus. The Nazis stole everything that was not nailed down.

The political caesura of 1945 had no effect on Moschen’s career. He retained his managerial position. Only the subject of his work changed: He became responsible for the restitution of the church property that he had previously helped to loot. 13 years after the end of the war, he handed over the last items. To mark his 40 years of service, Moschen was personally congratulated by Governor Alois Grauss “for the many valuable services” he had rendered the “beloved homeland over so many years”.