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Ottokar Hanzel shortly after the start of the war in summer 1914, photograph

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  • Person

    Ottokar Hanzel

    Ottokar Hanzel was a mathematics and descriptive geometry teacher from Vienna. During the First World War he was a Landsturm captain on the Italian front.

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    The separation begins

    Just three days after Austria’s declaration of war on Serbia on 1 August 1914, Ottokar Hanzel was drafted to Fortress Artillery Battalion No. 4, and from there to Reserve Company ‘Franzensfeste’ in Tyrol.