Gerö, Josef#

b. Subotica, Yugoslavia (then Maria-Theresiopel), Sept. 23, 1896, d. Vienna, Dec. 28, 1954, law graduate and sports functionary; father of Heinz Geroe. 1934-1938 department head in the Ministry of Justice, arrested several times after 1938; from 1945-1949 and 1952-1954 Staatssekretaer and Minister of Justice after being nominated by the Austrian Socialist Party as an expert without party affiliation. Also president of the Higher Regional Court of Vienna; from 1927-1938 president of the Vienna Football Association, from 1945-1954 of the Austrian Football Association, from 1946-1954 president of the Austrian Olympic Committee.