Erich Marckhl received his doctorate from the
University of Vienna in 1925 . From 1926 to 1936 he worked as an educator at the Bundes-Erziehungsanstalt Wien XIII, formerly a cadet school, but was dismissed for political reasons (membership in the illegal
NSDAP ). He then taught from 1937 to 1939 at the teacher training college in
Dortmund . In 1939 he became "Specialist Inspector for Music at Higher Schools" in Vienna. Due to his National Socialist past, he initially remained unemployed in 1945 and lived with the support of the
Gottfried von Einem family in
Ramsau am Dachstein (1945/46) and in Plomberg am Mondsee (1946–48). ==Awards==