Victor Kugler during World War I
Victor Kugler served in the Austrian navy during World War I.
Victor Kugler was conscripted into the Austrian Navy in the Adriatic at the age of 17. In April 1918, he was wounded and discharged with a pension.[1]
There are two photos of Kugler in sailor uniform, taken in Gladbeck. His cap reads K.u.K. Kriegsmarine.[2] Kugler was part of the K.u.K. Matrosenkorps, Rekrutenschule, Marinefeldpost Pola.[3] That is the current Croatian city of Pula, at the time a war port with both Austro-Hungarian and German Kriegsmarine U-Boats.[4]
Footnotes
- ^ Eda Shapiro & Rick Kardonne, Victor Kugler. The man who hid Anne Frank, Jerusalem: Gefen, 2008, p. 29.
- ^ Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Anne Frank Collectie, reg. code A_Kugler_III_010: Portretfoto van Victor Kugler in het uniform van matroos in de Kriegsmarine en A_Kugler_III_011: Portretfoto van Victor Kugler in het uniform van matroos in de Kriegsmarine en een onbekende jongen. Volgens somige bronnen zou Kugler electricien op een onderzeeboot zijn geweest. Shapiro & Kardonne, Victor Kugler, p. 29. In Gladbeck woonde het gezin van Emilie Kugler en Franz Klose.
- ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code A_Kugler_I_019: Victor Kugler aan Franz Klose, 16 februari 1918.
- ^ Wikipedia: Pula.