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Karl Heinrich Waggerl

Died in 1973

Karl Heinrich Waggerl (1897-1973), the son of a carpenter from Bad Gastein, grew up in poverty. A volunteer in 1916 and a prisoner in Italy, he contracted tuberculosis there, which forced him in 1923 to leave his post as a schoolteacher in Wagrain, where he then lived for more than fifty years from his writing, photography and bookbinding. He joined the Nazi party in 1938, headed the writers' organisation of the Salzburg Gau and was mayor of his village in 1940 and 1941. After the war he regained a large readership with short Christmas tales, and died in Schwarzach as a result of a car accident.

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