Born in Bessarabia (now Moldova),[1] he emigrated to Canada from Russia with his parents, Andreas Thauberger and Maria Eva (née Bähr) in 1911.
In the 1972 federal election, Thauberger ran for the Social Credit Party of Canada in the riding of Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan.
Joseph Thauberger helped establish the Canada Party in the early 1990s to promote a policy of nationalism and monetary reform.
His body was later found in a slough on the family farm, having been put there by his brother Joe, who was later convicted of his murder.
The Regina Police Service arrested Patrick Thauberger's older brother Joseph George Thauberger, on November 29, 2020, on charges of first degree murder in Patrick's death, offering an indignity to a human body and uttering threats to a woman (between 1997 and 2014).