Hans Handl
Hans came into the world on June 25th 1937. He is the first son of Thresl and Hans Handl from the Harham farmstead. Until he was 13, he was raised by his grandmother at the Poltenhof. When his father Hans took over the Harhamhof, he moved back from Poltenhof to the Harhamhof to live with his parents.
Hans attended the school for agriculture in Bruck. When his father died young from haemorrhages in 1958, he had to leave school to work the farm and help out at
the inn with his mother Thresl and sister Maresi.
"We just told ourselves, we had to keep going. People were talking:
They won't be able to manage long at Harham farmstead, they won't
make it anyway."
In 1964 he married his girlfriend Erna. For the first 20 years of their marriage they
lived with Thresl and Maresi at the Harhamwirt. As his uncle Sepp, the farmer at Polten died childless in the late 1970s, Hans got the Poltenhof farmstead. He moved back to the farm he grew up on with his wife and children, and worked the farm for over 40 years. Today his son Hans manages Poltenhof farmstead but Hans still helps, day-in, day-out.