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Dipl.-Vw. Dr. Ludwig Steiner

I grew up in a wholesome family
interviewer:
Ruth Deutschmann
photography:
Benjamin Epp
date of recording:
2008-04-29
English translation by:
Sylvia Manning - Baumgartner
Italian translation by:
Nicole D´Incecco
event
[1918-11-12] "Republic of German - Austria" Proclamation of the "Republic of German Austria" by the Provisional National Assembly. The Christian Social Party of 1918-1920 forms a coalition with the Social Democratic Party and in 1920 the largest party in the Koalitioon with the Greater German People's Party.
place of recording
Innsbruck
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1922
transcription:
I would like to emphasize that I grew up in a wholesome family, to use a modern term. I was the youngest of four children; my sisters were 10 and 8 years older than I, my brother two. So I was the youngest. That had advantages and disadvantages: on the one hand I had to submit to my older sisters' efforts to bring me up. But that made me resistant to such efforts. On the other hand being the youngest meant being "used" by my brother and sisters when they wanted something from mother. I was the nice little brother who helped them out. So, it was a very strange situation but I must say that I believe I wasn't damaged by it, one way or another. It was just another experience that you can make in life. One of the amazing things in my life was having contact with political events from an early age. My father who was a baker was a city councillor in Innsbruck for the Christian socialists from 1922 to 1934. So, politics were discussed a lot in my family.