Ferdinand Pauer
“Everything barred, everything locked, no contact to the outside world, nothing at all.”
Born in Vienna in 1930. His father died in a work accident. His mother was unemployed and unable to provide for her three children. In the wake of a desperate suicide threat, she was hospitalized at the psychiatric clinic “Am Steinhof” and the three children were taken over by the youth welfare service. Stays in various institutions, finally transfer in 1942 to Spiegelgrund. In December 1945, transfer to the Mödling educational facility where he stayed until he attained legal majority. Afterward jobs at ÖBB (Austrian Federal Railways) and the postal service.