WWI vet Franz Künstler, 107

Posted: Thursday, June 5th, 2008 2:59 pm

July 24, 1900 - May 27, 2008

Franz Künstler was not overimpressed with the sudden attention he attracted at the very end of his extraordinarily long life. Living quietly in the small German town of Niederstetten, in Baden-Württemberg, he was discovered to be one of the very few former First World War soldiers still alive, and the only one who had fought in the armies of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. …