Dear John,
Thank you bery much for or taking the time to reply to my thread.
Here is a portrait picture, however this might be relative older then the first one. We are trying to find the official army notice of his death, as these had a most recent ( decorated) portrait picture for propaganda purposes obviously.
The reason for this late search is that we want some basic facts get streight aout him. . . . my father made headlnes in 1947 when he was sent away by his mother to Luxembourg.
His picture was featured in many newspapers in 47 to give a face for the hundreds of children that were sent to Luxembourg. He grew up in a new family and never went back to Vienna. Most single mothers were struggeling obviously in autria after the war as everywhere else in europe. Luxembourg was relative wealthy in 47 and families could afford to host some foreign children. We try to find out the motivation of my grandmother to send her son away at 3 years, swiftly marrying a new man after.
Some say it had to do with the position my grandfather was holding in the army, grandma fearing retaliation by the russians who lived where they wanted in Post war Vienna. This is something I doupt, as my grandfather didn't hold an imporatant role in the army and died far away.. . .
