Here Frida meets her father for the first time in 32 years.

By Pia Gadd

After 32 years they have met for the for the first time – Anni-Frid Lyngstad and her father. During all these years Frida has believed that her father was killed in the war. Aweek a go they could finally give each other a hug – the world famous singer and and the baker Alfred Haase from Westruhe in West Germany.

      It was the the German magazine “Bravo” who put the two together. In an article 14 days ago the magazine told the love story in Norway between a German soldier and a a Norwegian girl. Result was was Anni-Frid. Her mother died after two years and her father was reported killed in the war. Anni-Frid moved to Sweden with her grandmother. One of ABBA’s many fans showed the article and said “this my be my uncle”!. When the uncle Alfred Haase got to know about the article he contactaed the magazine and they contacted Anni-Frid.

 

INCREDIBLY TENSE

This weekend father and daughter are reunited at the hom of Lidingö. Anni-Frid is clearly touched by meeting her father.

      - I couldn’t go to the airport. I was so tense before the meeting with him, Anni-Frid telles Göteborgsposten, the only paper she wanted to discuss this matter with.

      - When he arrived we just hugged. I don’t remember much of what we said. Alfred Haase lived with Benny until Monday. He also got to meet his grandchildren Lise-Lotte, 10 and Hans, 14.

      - I was constantly nervous all the time. The different in languages didn’t help alot either. My father told me he had been very nervous to meet me. He had never known that he had a daughter. He told me he saw my mother alone when she was walking along with a bucket. After that they spent everyday until he was sent back to Germany.

      - When I was a little girl I was told that the he probably had been killed during the war. On a military transport, Anni-Frid says to GP.

     -  But I still fantazied about us meeting some day.

 

FINALLY THE RELIEF IS GONE

-         Now all my background came over me. After he has gone to back to Germany. The reaction came several nights ago, I cried all night.

Anni-Frid’s mother, Synni Lyngstad met Haase when he was a young officer in Ballangen outside of Narvik during the end of the world in March of 1945. He went back to Germany in March 1945. They met everyday for six months. Nine months later he became the father of a girl. Alfred Haase never got to know that.

After Synni’s death two years later her grandmother moved to Sweden.

-         She was aware that “german children” had a very hard time in Norway. She moved to give both myself and herself a new chance. We ended up in Torshälla outside of Eskilstuna. That’s very my life really began.

Anni-Frid has two half siblings now, Peder 30 and Karin 30.

We do look alike. We have the same features, the same krooked pointfinger. My father and I even have the same feet.

       - So he is my father alright.