Death in Georgia

“A role model”: mourning for Carinthian elite police officer

Friedrich "Fritz" Katschnig on one of his many foreign assignments - here on the EU mission in Georgia(Bild: EUMM)

Fritz Katschnig from St. Kanzian would have earned the Republic's Lifesaving Medal more than "just" once - now the Carinthian died during one of his numerous missions abroad in Georgia.

"When Fritz is there, everyone is safe" - says a close friend of the Carinthian. Fritz Katschnig from St. Kanzian not only conveyed this feeling, he lived it. After joining the gendarmerie school in Krumpendorf in 1985, he went on to serve the public as an elite officer in the Cobra special unit. In 1997, he finally followed the call of the Ministry of the Interior - to the Department for Foreign Operations in Vienna.