Born in Vienna in 1932. Was taken to the Child Foster Care Service on Lustkandlgasse. Afterward with several foster families, the last one in Styria. There he was wrongly accused of arson and was transferred to Spiegelgrund in August 1940. In 1941 to Ybbs and in 1942 to Mödling, thereafter until 1951 intermittently at home and at various educational institutions, among others, for two years in Kaiserebersdorf, Vienna. Worked from 1953 for the Vienna municipality, among other things, as operating manager at the Vienna Harbor.