Otto Baumgartner

Otto Baumgartner, a private with the Imperial-Royal Infantry Regiment No. 9, was taken prisoner by the Russian Army in September 1915 in the fighting near Lutsk and spent five years in various prisoner-of-war camps in Siberia – including in Novo Nikolayevsk (today Novosibirsk) and Omsk. The correspondence between Otto Baumgartner and his father Anton Baumgartner during his years of absence testifies to his yearning for peace and homecoming, the wish for news and money dispatches from his home town of Vienna, and last but not least the parents’ worries about their son.