Austria News

Since last Sunday, the whole world knows his name.

The man who locked up his own daughter in the cellar for 24 years, raped, and made her pregnant 6 times.

But who is that man who can do such cruel things to his own daughter?

The 73-year-old has also seven children with his wife, and is known as a very good technican. He has visited the polytechnic school for electrical engineering. His first employer was the VÖEST, a world famous steel factory in the city of Linz.

Between 1969 and 1971 he was working for a building material company in Amstetten. He was constructing concrete pipe machines, and one of the best and most intelligent workers.

In 1993 he changed his field of activity and bought a restaurant in a little village close to the town of Amstetten.

In the past years Josef Fritzl was known as a successful businessman. He also started dealing with real estates. He bought houses in Lower Austrias capital St. Pölten, as well as in the Lower Austrian town of Waidhofen/Ybbs, and rented them as apartments.

The only strange thing his neighbours recognised was, that he was never seen with his children in public.