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Konstantin Forestier

last name:

Forestier

first name:

Konstantin

born:

1914-04-26

affiliation:

NordtirolerIn

last change:

Wed Nov 04 13:58:24 UTC 2020

place of work

Innsbruck

milieu

Military

place of residence

Innsbruck

profession(s)

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biography

His father is a captain in a regiment of dragoons of the Habsburg monarchy and the outbreak of war - Constantine is not a yearling - Jaroslaw stationed in and hastily summoned back to Vienna, where the family of the mother of Constantine is located. In the first months of the war Galicia is highly competitive. Forestier father is severely wounded, Jaroslaw falls into Russian hands. After the recapture is possible, goods and chattels from Jaroslaw to get. In the meantime, the family is the first to Meran, and then moved to Innsbruck. Forestier's father works, front unfit, the military command. In Innsbruck, the family lived first in the vicinity of the railway mail. Constantine experienced the war as a four-year-old air-raid shelter and see the defeated soldiers return home from war. As a child of good family, Constantine is in a private school. Despite the collapse of the monarchy, the officer of the emperor still feels to "better society" belonging. Constantine completed the lower level of a high school and graduated in 1934 at the Business Academy. He likes to take the offer of a friendly family to Holland, to take him in this economically depressed time and good care. admit, when the victorious powers in 1936 Austria, an army of 30,000 men, he decides Constantine, like his father and his grandfather, when a military career. When Hitler marched into Austria, just before his appointment as an officer, he lived on the Hungarian-Czech border, the flight of Jewish Austrians to Hungary and Czechoslovakia. His first wife died giving birth to their son. Constantine makes the Second World War and 1950 comes from a Russian prison. He learns of Christine Guggenberg know, which is shortly after his wife. Until the independent life he lives with his wife and child in the household of his parents, then lived happy years, first in Wörgl and then in Salzburg. At the commencement of the pension is drawn back to the Tyrol, Innsbruck.

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