Friedrich Jodl grew up in a Munich family association which, due to its proximity to the royal court, had provided numerous senior civil servants in Bavaria.

His academic teachers included the philosophers Karl von Prantl, Johann Huber and Moriz Carrière.

[2] Friedrich Jodl had been married to the women's rights activist Margarete (née Förster) from 1882 and had no children.

At the time of "Red Vienna", Jodlgasse in Hietzing in 1919 and the Professor-Jodl-Hof residential complex in Döbling in 1926 were named after him in recognition of his services to popular education.

[4] A portrait bust by the Viennese sculptor Hans Mauer was placed in honor of Friedrich Jodl in the main courtyard of the University of Vienna.