- Son of stage actor Ernst Pittschau sr. ( (1859-1916).
- His promising career ended abrupt as he was killed in a road accident.
- The parents of Werner Pittschau were the stage actor Ernst Pittschau (1859-1916) and the stage actress Hilda Pittschau-Hofer née Schützenhofer (1873-1961).
- His stepbrother Ernst Pittschau ( 1883 - 1951) was also a well-known actor.
- When the political situation in Austria changed he devoted to a commercial education. But the desire to the acting was inside him and he got his first engagement at the Landestheater in Prague as a youthful lover. There he was spotted by Erika Glässner and Hans Junkermann who brought him to the film.
- After his school education he went to a cadet school to become an officer.
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