Max Reisch

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Max Reisch (born October 2, 1912 in Kufstein ; † January 18, 1985 ibid) was an Austrian travel writer , geographer , journalist and expert on the Orient .

The travel writer Max Reisch, around 1960

Life

Max Reisch, born in 1912, went to school in Bozen and Kufstein and studied architecture and world trade in Vienna . His brother Hans F. Reisch (1907-2004) is the founder of Spar Österreichische Warenhandels-AG in 1954.

In his youth he was a skier , motor sportsman ( skijoring ) and mountaineer . In 1930 and 1931 he undertook the 12-pass trip and the Lake Garda trip with his Puch Type 175 motorcycles and in 1932 the Sahara trip with the Puch Type 250 - for the first time an Austrian motorcycle had reached North Africa. The next expedition followed in 1933, again on the Puch-Type 250, this time with special equipment. With Herbert Tichy as a co-driver, his second long-haul trip went through the Balkans , Anatolia , the Syrian Desert and Persia to the Indian subcontinent . Max Reisch was the first to successfully manage the overland route to India on a motorcycle.

As the leader of the world tour in 1935/36 with the new Steyr Type 100, the Austrian was recognized worldwide; The Kufstein student and his co-driver, Helmuth Hahmann from Vienna, managed the first crossing of rear India (Burma, Thailand, Laos to China) in an automobile.

As a result, he carried out numerous expeditions to Africa and Asia. He also carried out research in the Libyan desert during World War II , when he was a member of the Afrika Korps .

After the war, he took a trip to the Nefuf Desert on the Arabian Peninsula. All of his travels were journalistically processed by him and so numerous books and articles about his travels were published.

In 1950, at the age of 38, the motor sportsman won the Austrian rally championship title and became the first Tyrolean to win the OSK Cup.

Works

  • Transasia , 1939, Brockhaus Verlag, Leipzig
  • With 32 HP to China , 1941, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig
  • TRANSASIA , 1944, Norwegian text, Blix Verlag, Oslo
  • INDIA - alluring distance , 1949, Ullstein publishing house, Vienna
  • Gewürz und Teekunde , 1950, Verlag Waldheim and Eberle, Vienna
  • 2 men and 32 hp , 1951, Ullstein publishing house, Vienna
  • In the car to Koweit , 1953, Ullstein Verlag, Vienna
  • To ar PA FIRE HJUL , 1953, Norwegian text, Verlag John Griegs, Bergen
  • König im Morgenland , 1954, Ullstein Verlag, Vienna
  • Till KUWAIT , 1955, Swedish text, Natur och Kultur Verlag, Stockholm, Sweden
  • With 6 HP through the desert , 1956, Verlag Carl Ueberreuter Vienna.
  • Off to Africa! , 1957, Ullstein publishing house, Vienna
  • Tapis Volants et Pipelines , 1957, French. Text, Calmann-Levy publishing house, Paris
  • Siwa - Sinai and Sid , 1958, Geographischer Verlag Kümmerly and Frey, Bern
  • Arabia then and now , 1958, Moritz Diesterweg publishing house, Frankfurt a. Main
  • With Fridolin to India , 1960, youth book, Verlag Ehrenwirt, Munich
  • With Fridolin to Siam , 1961, youth book, Verlag Ehrenwirt, Munich
  • Mousetrap Africa: My desert trips near Rommel, and how we escaped from Tunis , 1962, K. Vowinckel, Neckargemünd
  • Ten thousand street: In the footsteps of Alexander the Great , 1962, Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna
  • The road of faith: On the trail of the crusaders , 1965, Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna
  • Caravan routes of Asia , large illustrated book, 1974, Verlag Welsermühl, Wels
  • India alluring distance: 13,000km pioneer trip to India , 1983, W. Ennsthaler, Steyr, ISBN 3-85068-131-9
  • Around the world in a car: pioneering trip through Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and China , 1984, W. Ennsthaler, Steyr, ISBN 3-85068-176-9
  • India The Shimmering Dream, first overland journey to India by motorcycle in 1933 , English text, 2010, Panther Publ, ISBN 978-0-9556595-9-1

collection

In addition to his long-distance motorcycles and automobiles, which have been preserved in their original form including accessories, he also kept other veteran vehicles in his hometown of Kufstein. From 2000 to 2007 an exhibition about his expeditions was shown in Innsbruck. Since the beginning of 2008 the collection of the expedition vehicles with the historical travel equipment has been housed in the Reisch-Orient-Archiv in Bolzano / South Tyrol.

Secondary literature

  • Max Reisch - Beyond All Streets , biography of Dr Horst Christoph, 2012, Tyrolia Verlag Innsbruck, ISBN 978-3-7022-3212-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1946-1950 post-war period - "Rallye" state champions , accessed on April 5, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Reisch, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian geographer and travel writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Kufstein
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1985
Place of death Kufstein