Alfred Lehr

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Alfred Paul Lehr (born October 12, 1924 in Vienna , Austria ; † June 29, 2011 there ) was an Austrian banker, film scholar, film manager and film producer .

Life

At the bank and as a film producer

Lehr attended the School for World Trade in Vienna after graduating from high school in 1942, but was drafted into the Wehrmacht that same year and continued his studies in commercial science in 1946 . He graduated with a degree in business administration (1947) and a doctorate in commercial science (Dr. rer. Comm.) (1948). After a short interlude at a Viennese textile trading company, Lehr moved to Creditanstalt-Bankverein , became head of department in 1954 and was promoted to the board of this major Viennese bank (film department) in 1956.

At the same time, in 1954, Lehr made his extremely successful debut as film production manager for the box office hit Der Förster vom Silberwald . While he continued to actively produce cinema productions - mostly homeland films - up to the beginning of the 1960s, Lehr made a career in the Austrian film industry at the same time and took on several functionary posts such as that of an individual authorized representative of Sascha-Film , that of a supervisory board of the Austria Wochenschau and that of a vice-president of Austrian Society for Film Studies and Film Industry. For the production company Österreichische Film GmbH (ÖFA) he produced films until 1961 (most recently the Rabenalt crime thriller “ Man in the Shadow ” ).

During his film-active years, Lehr remained primarily a banker and also took over official sports in the Austrian Association of Austrian Business Academics. Here he was first vice-president and from 1976 to 1998 its president. At the 1998 General Assembly, Lehr was offered the honorary presidency for life. In the 1950s he advanced to the position of chief authorized signatory in the Creditanstalt-Bankverein and in 1974 became the director of this large bank. From 1979 until his retirement in 1994, Alfred Lehr held another central position at Creditanstalt as head of the “Economic Advisory Service”.

Scientific activities, positions in the film industry and honors

For many years, Alfred Lehr held a number of functions as managing director, authorized signatory and member of the supervisory board in group companies of the bank. Lehr was an assessor from 1953 to 1957 and chairman of the diploma examination committees at the University of World Trade from 1957 to 1976. In addition, since 1962 he has worked as an academic teacher at the University of Vienna and as a sworn court expert. In this context he published numerous publications. For these achievements, the Austrian state appointed him professor in 1965. In 1976 he received another honorary title with the Senator.

Further awards were the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st Class, the Gold Decoration for Services to the State of Vienna and the Gold Decoration for Services to the State of Lower Austria .

Lehr has been President of the Austrian Film Archive since 1970 . As early as 1955 he became a founding member, vice president and founding member of the Austrian Society for Film Studies, Communication and Media Research and was also Vice President of the International Association for Communication Studies, first Vice President of the Austrian Society for Advertising Science at the Vienna University of Economics and Business.

Filmography

literature

  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 2: Hed – Peis. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560744 , p. 976.
  • Ludwig Gesek : Small Lexicon of Austrian Films. Vienna 1959, p. 33

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personal data
SURNAME Lehr, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lehr, Alfred Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian banker, film scholar, film manager and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 2011
Place of death Vienna , Austria