Born in the ASSR of the Volga-Germans in 1926. Deported to the Abakan District, Krasnoyarsk Territory in 1941. As from 1942 he lived in the Taimyr Autonomous Area, in the Ust-Yeniseysk Distict. Worked as a fisherman, hunter and assistant of the veterinarian for reindeer breeding brigades. Lived in the settlement of Ust-Port for some time. Left the Taimyr Peninsula in 1996.
They took us to Siberia in September 1941. The whole family was resettled: father, stepmother, seven children – six brothers and a sister. In January 1942 they mobilized my father into the trudarmy, where he was killed in 1945.
I ended up on the Taimyr Peninsula at the age of fifteen. My stepmother and the children stayed in Siberia. They assigned us to live and work in the settlement of Kasantsevo. In this place we organized a German kolkhoz named „Guardsman“. We began to work for the commercial fishing industry.
In 1946 I managed to pass the final exams for veterinary assistants at the school of reindeer breeders in Dudinka. I was working in the tundra in this profession for a period of nine years. Having removed to the settlement of Ust-Port I found myself a job for the cannery....
Recorded in the settlement of Ust-Port in 1993