Ernst Frey

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Ernst Frey (born June 10, 1915 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died 1994 in Vienna) was an Austrian legionnaire.

Life

Growing up in Hietzing , Frey joined the Communist Youth in 1934 . In order to escape the persecution of Jews after the annexation of Austria , he fled from Austria to Switzerland in 1938 and on to France, where he joined the Foreign Legion . He fought in Algeria and from 1941 in Indochina . After being a prisoner of war in Japan, he came to Viht Minh . There he became a colonel .

Frey returned to Austria in 1951. His parents and an aunt were murdered in the Litzmannstadt ghetto , and his sister escaped to England from the Nazi persecution of Jews. Frey subsequently worked as a sales representative. He married Franzi Preminger, who was rescued to England on a Kindertransport in 1939 ; they had two children.

Frey wrote the book Vietnam, mon amour about his experiences . A Viennese Jew in the service of Ho Chi Minh .

Works

literature

  • Wilhelm Kosch : German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century. Volume: Fischer-Abendroth - Frieze. De Gruyter, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-11-096453-8 .
  • Heinz Schütte : Between the fronts: German and Austrian defectors to the Viet Minh. (Berlin Southeast Asia Studies, Volume 6). Logos Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-8325-1312-4 .
  • Pierre Brocheux: Ho Chi Minh: A Biography . Cambridge University Press 2007, ISBN 978-0-521-85062-9 .
  • Irma Schwartz, Silvia Macho-Frey: “Vietnam, mon amour”. Our father Ernst Frey: A Viennese Jew in the service of Ho Chi Minh , in: Margit Franz, Heimo Halbrainer (Hrsg.): Going east - going south: Austrian exile in Asia and Africa . Graz: Clio, 2014 ISBN 978-3-902542-34-2 , pp. 625–628

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Kosch: Deutsches Literatur Lexikon p. 490. Accessed April 1, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Frey, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian legionnaire
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 1994
Place of death Vienna