Alfred Jansa's father was Emanuel Jansa, a colonel in the Austro-Hungarian Army. His mother was Anna von Meyer.
During World War I he held different positions on the Serbian, Italian and Russian fronts, including being Austrian liaison officer to the Bulgarian Army (1915–1916).
Jansa married Judith Reviczky von Revisnye on 8 April 1919.
Prior to the Anschluss, Jansa and his staff had developed a scenario for Austria's defense against a German attack. Chancellor of AustriaKurt Schuschnigg was under considerable pressure from Germany, including a demand to remove Jansa from office. The Berchtesgaden agreement (12 February 1938) stipulated in paragraph 8, that Jansa should be replaced with Franz Böhme. Jansa retired from the army on 17 February 1938.
As a known opponent of the Hitler regime, Jansa was forced into exile in Erfurt along with his family, and his army pension reduced such that he had to supplement it by working for a car parts distributor. He credited a personal intervention by Benito Mussolini, who he had met in 1936, with protecting him from worse consequences.[1]
Jansa survived the war, and in 1945 he was visited by a group of freed prisoners from Buchenwald concentration camp, who thanked him for his moral support. In 1946, he was able to return to Austria.
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