After being born in the small village, called Tschanigraben, in Burgenland, the question of the baptismal name came up. Every child needed a baptismal name. That’s the rule. Not a first name, but a baptismal name. At that time, it was still so that one could not give me nothing, nothing to give you a name, as it was so popular, possibly even a foreign one. „There be the Lord God before“, The old women used to say in the village, when they sat on their benches and adjusted the headscarves. A decent woman wore a headscarf when she got married. Above all others, „let the Lord God be before“, As already mentioned. As often as this sentence was repeated, one could already wonder whether the „god“ would have any time for anything else than to be „present“ somewhere. On the other hand, that would explain why he excelled at non-dispassion and disinterest in other things. But even before such thoughts, the good Christian women would have said, „be the Lord God,“ as we already know, „before.“
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