Post and telegraph administration

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Austrian Post and Telegraph Administration

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founding 1849
resolution March 1, 1996
Seat (Interurban) KK Telegrafen Centrale , Vienna
Number of employees 57,000
Branch Telecommunications , mail

The headquarters of PTV in Vienna's Innere Stadt , Börseplatz 1
Centrale I des Staatstelephons , Vienna-Mariahilf , Lehargasse 7 (until 1948: Dreihufeisengasse 7), built in 1897/99 by Eugen Fassbender (facade: kk building officer Julius Koch )
Centrale I of the state telephone , graphic by the architect Eugen Fassbender, 1897
Centrale II of the state telephone , Vienna-Alsergrund , Hahngasse 4 (left) or Berggasse 35, built in 1897/99 by Franz von Neumann (picture: 1898).

The Austrian Post and Telegraph Administration ( PTV, also ÖPT ) was the highest administrative authority of the state-owned Austrian postal and telecommunications system. The agency was founded in 1866 when a special post and telegraph department was set up in what was then the Ministry of Commerce .

Until it was dissolved in 1996, the company was divided into three divisions: Post and Postbuses , Telecommunications and Organization & Personnel.

On May 1, 1996, the authority was transformed into Post und Telekom Austria AG. The current successor companies are Österreichische Post AG, A1 Telekom Austria AG and ÖBB-Postbus GmbH .

history

Postal area

Austria had a postal system since 1722 , founded by Emperor Charles VI. , but it wasn't until 20 years later that this company really grew.

In 1749 daily connections to the most important cities in Austria were established, a year later the parcel service was introduced and from 1751 letters were stamped with the date. From the beginning of the 19th century, PTV also operated the Liechtenstein postal system, but this operation ended in 1921 when Liechtenstein entered a new postal union with Switzerland . The administrative manager Maximilian Otto von Ottenfeld modernized the post office in the years 1829 to 1848. Regional services were placed on an equal footing and he created a supervisory board. From 1839 he made printed guidelines available for employees and opened a “post library”, which was later incorporated into Section 3 of PTV Administration, Information and Documentation .

The telegram service was introduced in 1847 and gummed postage stamps with a uniform fee in 1850 . In 1866, the post and telecommunications era was aided by electricity, rapid transportation, and international cooperation.

In 1907 the general manager Friedrich Wagner inaugurated the first post bus .

Area revenue expenditure Employee
post Office 28.6% 41.9% 55.4%
Post bus 3% 5.9% 7.9%

Telecommunications sector

The telecommunications division is divided into 6 areas:

In 1881 the telephone came to Vienna. For the first 14 years, the 154-line telephone network was operated by a small, private company, but the telephone network was unreliable, expensive and poorly developed.

In 1895 the eleven privately operated telephone networks were nationalized and taken over by PTV. The name of the company was originally supposed to be changed, but in the end the name could be kept as PTV decided to classify the phone as a telegraph as it was also an acoustic device.

After nationalization, the endeavors of the State Telegraph Administration were initially aimed at designing and expanding the facility in accordance with the current needs of local and interurban traffic. Since the central Friedrichstrasse 6 ( Vienna-Innere Stadt ), which was also taken over, and the interurban central station in the telegraph building (Börseplatz 1) had inadequate rooms that excluded any expansion, it was decided to abandon the Central Friedrichstrasse entirely and to build two new control centers instead.

Taking into account the results of an architectural competition, the Centrale I (Dreihufeisengasse 7 and from 1948: Lehargasse 7, Vienna-Mariahilf) and the Centrale II (Hahngasse 4 / Berggasse 35, Vienna-Alsergrund) were built between 1897 and 1899 . On the night of 18 to 19 February 1899, the operation of which was Centrale Friedrichstrasse in the Centrale I laid and from there connections to a temporarily set up headquarters (local calls) at Kolingasse, Vienna-Alsergrund, as well as for remote Centrale on stock exchange switched . After the Central II and thus the new remote control center set up in-house had been activated from May 21st ( Pentecost Sunday ) to May 22nd of the same year , the offices in Kolingasse and Börseplatz had lost their function as central offices.

The first payphones were introduced in 1902.

In 1910 the automation of the brokerage began. At the beginning of January 1970, the corresponding work in the areas of Dürnkrut and Neusiedl an der Zaya was completed, making the Gänserndorf district the last administrative district in Austria to be fully automated. Around 60 years after the start of automation, “the lady from office ” was obsolete in Austria .

From 1978 the telephone network was digitized, and the number range of Vienna's landline numbers was changed from 6 to 7 digits. In 1992 ISDN started as a pilot test in Vienna.

The first cell phones were introduced as car phones in 1974 and paging the following year.

Area revenue expenditure Employee
Telecom 68.4% 52.2% 32.1%

Cooperations and partners

  • The cooperation between PTV and PSK began in 1883 and money letters were thus available in most post offices.
  • In 1923 PTV owned 30% of the shares in Radio Austria AG . Radio Austria AG was able to use PTV's cable and satellite installations for international public telecommunications services.
  • PTV always maintained a close relationship with the Deutsche Bundespost - Telekom , especially in technical matters.

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Barth von Wehrenalp: The new telephone system, p. 681 f.
  2. ^ The new building of the Telephon-Centrale in Vienna. (With illustration). In:  Wiener Bilder , No. 40/1898 (Volume III), October 2, 1898, p. 3. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrb.
  3. Local report. The new Telephone Central. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 12479/1899, May 21, 1899, p. 9 middle. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
  4. ^ Barth von Wehrenalp: The new telephone system, p. 726.
  5. ^ Barth von Wehrenalp: The new telephone system, p. 729 and
    small chronicle. (...) The new Telephone Central. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 12381/1899, February 19, 1899, p. 6, bottom center. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
  6. Brief message: Gänserndorf district without “Miss from Office”. In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 4th 1970, p. 2 , column 5 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).

Remarks

  1. The tower, to which 448 wires were originally tensioned, was dismantled in 1945. - See: Franz Neumann . In: architektenlexikon.at.