2015 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Hayek, Heroism and Hagiography
verfasst von : Robert Leeson
Erschienen in: Hayek: A Collaborative Biography
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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Friedrich Hayek (1994, 46) was a teenager (aged 15–19) during the Great War: ‘then and for some years to come still a child’. He told his secretary and appointed biographer, Charlotte Cubitt (2006, 76) that after the war he had been the beneficiary of a ‘charitable project to feed half-starved Austrian children although he had passed his twentieth birthday by then’. In March 1917, this 17-year-old ‘child’ after ‘a little over seven months’ training was sent as sergeant-major-officer-cadet (if I can thus translate the even longer title) to the Italian front where I served for a little over a year’.