Adalbert Karl Gauss

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Adalbert Karl Gauss , also Gauß , (born October 6, 1912 in Bácspalánka ( German  Plankenburg ) Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary ; † June 14, 1982 in Salzburg , Austria ) was an Austrian teacher , publisher , journalist and folklorist .

Life

Gauss came from an old family of teachers; his father was a primary school teacher in Bácspalánka. The choir director and composer Franz Koringer emerged from the family of his mother, Maria Koringer . His Matura put Gauss in 1931 at the Archbishop's Jesuit high school in the Bosnian Travnik and studied to German, Slavic and Ethnology in Zagreb , Szeged and Munster .

As a teacher at the secondary schools in Vrbas (German Neuwerbass ) in the Batschka , Gauss taught German at the private German teacher training institute and Serbo-Croatian at the community school from 1937. Here he was also active in folklore. In 1939 he founded the short-lived quarterly Schwäbischer Volkserzieher , which steered a polemical course against the influences of National Socialism under the Danube Swabians in Vrbas, together with Johannes Weidenheim .

During the Second World War , Gauss and his school class were drafted into the military and deployed near Budapest . After being wounded, staying in a hospital and being a prisoner of war, he came to Austria at the end of 1945, where he took the initiative to deal with the numerous tasks of the displaced and refugee problem of the Yugoslav Germans, from protection from starvation and extermination to questions of citizenship, social security, pension schemes, and improving the status of Danube Swabian war widows , Family reunification up to possibilities of emigration.

In 1948 Gauss took over the editing of the Danube Swabian weekly Neuland from Leopold Rohrbacher . In 26 years as an editor and editor-in-chief (from 1954) over a thousand controversial leading articles with refugee sociology and contemporary history topics were written. From 1951 to 1959 he was co-editor of the Südostdeutsche Heimatblätter in Munich and for several years editor and publisher of the Donauschwäbische Contributions series . For the publication refugee country Austria (1957) and the periodicals calendar of the homeless , folk calendar of the Danube Swabians and culture mirror he temporarily took over the editing. In the creation of the fifth and last volume of the series Documentation of the Expulsion of Germans from East Central Europe (1961) edited by Theodor Schieder , Gauss made an important contribution to the collection of documentary material, advice and funding.

Gauss was co-founder and long-time managing director of the Central Advisory Office for Volksdeutsche in the Land of Salzburg (1948), founder of the Danube Swabian Central Archives (1949), co-founder and long-time vice-president of the Association of Catholic Danube Swabian Academics (1949), the Salzburger Donauschwaben Association (1951), Publishing Director of the Donauschwäbische Verlagsgesellschaft (1951) mbH , partner of the House of Danube Swabians - Donauschwäbisches Kulturzentrum GmbH and scientific director of the Austrian Refugee Archive , from 1959 he taught at the Federal College for Women in Economics (Annahof), all in Salzburg.

With his wife from Futog in Batschka, Gauss had four sons, including Karl-Markus .

Publications (selection)

  • Children in the shade. Series of publications "Current Present" Volume 1, Salzburg 1950, 40 pp.
  • Ed .: Documents on the history of the Danube Swabians 1944–1954, selected. u. a. v. AK Gauss. Donauschwäbische Verlagsgesellschaft, Salzburg 1954, 46 pp.
  • Problems and tasks of the Danube Swabian press work after the expulsion. Donauschwäbische Verlagsgesellschaft, Salzburg 1955, 15 pp.
  • Between Salzburg and Los Angeles. Side lights from a trip to America. Pannonia-Verlag, Freilassing 1957, 128 pp.
  • Ed .: Memories of Palanka. Pannonia-Verlag, Freilassing 1958, 220 pp.
  • The Danube Swabians. Image of a colonist people. With J. Weidenheim, foreword by Theodor Schieder , Pannonia-Verlag, Freilassing 1961, with 333 illustrations, [o. S.]
  • The second roof. An interim assessment of the barracks and the will of the settlers 1945–1965. With B. Oberlaender. Salzburg 1979, 96 pp.
  • Paths and wrong turns in red-white-red. Contemporary history and interviews with Bruno Kreisky u. a. Austrian Refugee Archive, Salzburg 1979, 180 pp.
  • An ethnic group in upheaval. House of the Danube Swabians, Salzburg [o. J.]
  • Associate editor: Tscher-wenka. Becoming and decaying a Batschka German community. [O. Cit., No year]

Honors

literature

  • Mirjana Stančić: Buried Literature: German-language poetry in the area of ​​the former Yugoslavia from 1800 to 1945 Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2013. ISBN 3-205-79460-5 , p. 292.
  • Johannes Weidenheim : To the death (and to the life) of Adalbert Karl Gauß. In: SV 1982/4, pp. 300-305.
  • Adalbert Karl Gauss. In: The memory remains. Danube Swabian literature since 1945. An anthology, Volume 2. EG, Stefan Teppert (Ed.), Hartmann Verlag, Sersheim 2000, pp. 559–582
  • Kürschner's German Literature Calendar , 1967
  • Bruno Oberlaender: Adalbert Karl Gauß. A Danube Swabian publicist. From the estate. Selected editorials. About his life. Danube Swabian Cultural Center / House of the Danube Swabians, Salzburg 1983, 136 pp.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of winners of the Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria . Retrieved December 29, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Gauss, Adalbert Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gauss, Adalbert Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian teacher, publisher, journalist and folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Bácspalánka , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1982
Place of death Salzburg , Austria