The Austrian viticulturalist Josef Mader (1876-1938) was the son of Karl Mader (1847-1914), the director of the Istituto Agrario di San Michele all'Adige(Trentino). He first graduated from the viticultural school there and then from the Klosterneuburg viticultural school. His teachers there included August-Wilhelm Freiherr von Babo (1827-1894) and Emerich Ráthay (1845-1900). He then worked as an itinerant teacher for several years.
From 1899, he managed the Prussian vine grafting centre in Engers on the Rhine. In 1900, he was appointed director of viticulture for South Tyrol and viticulture teacher in San Michele all'Adige. As he was in Austrian service during the First World War (1914-1918), he was dismissed after the war. In 1922, he was put in charge of the Hessian wine-growing domain in Mainz. Here he organised annual auctions at which top wines of the wine-growing domain was offered for sale.
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