Career
He received this honorary title in 1984 for harbouring the Jewish woman Melvine Deutsch. Deutsch was in a camp of forced labors of the Siemens company in Vienna. When she was deported to the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, she fled from the train and came to Vienna, where she received help from Anna Manzer.
The Gestapo did not give up finding Melvine Deutsch.
Deutsch safely left the apartment after the liberation.