Alfred Walheim

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Alfred Walheim (born November 5, 1874 in Ödenburg , † December 21, 1945 in Vienna ) was an Austrian author and politician ( GDVP , Landbund) . He was governor of Burgenland twice .

Live and act

Alfred Walheim received his doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1898 after studying German . He worked as a middle school professor for German , Latin and Ancient Greek at the German State High School in Kremsier and at the State High School in Vienna / Mariahilf .

After the First World War , Walheim initially joined the Greater Germans , he was one of the co-founders of the GDVP -Burgenland. Alfred Walheim was a member of the inter-ministerial commission for the land acquisition of Burgenland , where he proposed the designation "Heinzenland" for these German-speaking parts of western Hungary , but could not establish himself because " the Heinzen, who are at home in the hilly south of the country, only have one Make up part of the German-West Hungarian population and the so-called 'Heidebauer' in the flat northeast are excluded by this designation ”, and Gregor Meidlinger's or Karl Renner's proposal“ Burgenland ”was finally accepted, which Walheim already used as a decorative epithet in his poem“ Heinzenland ”in the Wiener " Ostdeutsche Rundschau " of December 24, 1918 needed:

Heinzenland,
Burgenland,
are you coming back to us again?
Give me your hand,
the German hand,
that I will take it and give it a squeeze!
[…]
Ödenburg, Eisenburg,
Wieselburg, Pressburg came into being
Burgenland, Heinzenland,
were seriously never separated from us -
now that you have found your way home,
we remain connected
to the end of all worlds.

From 1923 to 1934 Wahlheim was a member of the Burgenland Landtag . During this time he worked several times (1922-1923, 1929-1931 and 1934) as a regional councilor. In the course of his political career, Walheim moved from the Greater Germans to the Landbund . From 1924 to 1925 he was also represented in the Federal Council as a non-party .

From July 14, 1923 to January 4, 1924, Walheim, with social democratic help, succeeded Alfred Rausnitz , who was initially second state administrator and from 1922 first state governor of the new state, in this position. One reason for Rausnitz 'resignation was a motion by Walheim, who supported the Social Democrats with the GDVP in a vote in local school policy on the influence of the Catholic Church on the school system , while Rausnitz tended to the opinion of the Christian Socials. This point had already been clarified in the rest of Austria, but was still unresolved in Burgenland due to its historical affiliation to the Hungarian half of the empire .

In the following elections to the National Council in 1923, Walheim's GDVP suffered heavy losses, losing almost 80% of the votes. Due to a red-black coalition, Walheim also lost the post of governor in 1924, whereupon he switched to the federal state. On November 25, 1931, Walheim was again elected governor for the second time with social democratic support, but in February 1934 had to give way to a supporter of Engelbert Dollfuss .

In addition to his political career, Walheim was also active in literature, he wrote ballads and contributions as a political poet to " Scherer ". However, his ballads and other poems are hardly known, and although the "veritable poet" and Greater German partisan, who as a "Pan-Germanic supporter of the union" had earned his spurs early on for the development of Burgenland and who then as Burgenland state politician through clever pacts and After all, if he had made it twice to the governor and four times to the regional council, not a single street in Burgenland is named after him.

He was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Works and writings

  • Ballads from Burgenland . Vienna 1933.
  • Brentano's Chronicle of a Traveling Schoolboy . Vienna 1912.
  • Emil Ertl: his life and works; a study . Leipzig 1912.
  • Emil Ertl , Vienna 1911–1912.
    • 1st chapter. In: Annual report of the KK Staatsgymnasium in VI. Districts of Vienna over the school year 1910/1911 digitized
    • Part 2. In: Annual report of the KK Staatsgymnasium in VI. Districts of Vienna over the school year 1911/1912 digitized
  • The Saxon Cuirassier: Pictures from old Austria . Vienna 1935.
  • The Viennese sea journey from the joy Empty: An old German farce of the 13th century . Vienna 1922.
  • Maister Franntzn Schmidt's message in Nuremberg all his judging. (An unknown source from Brantano's "Story of the good Kasperl and the beautiful Annerl") . In: Zeitschrift für Deutschkunde 28 (1914), pp. 701–709 Commons .
  • The Güssing feud . Free translation from Middle High German. In: Burgenland homeland sheets . 1937, pp. 177-188, PDF on ZOBODAT
  • German poetry in Heinzenland. In: Burgenland Festschrift on the occasion of the unification of the heather farmers and the Heinzen with German Austria , Vienna 1920, pp. 102-108.
  • Numerous newspaper articles on political topics .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sigrid Augeneder, 60 years of Burgenland. A documentation. Series of publications by the Austrian Institute for Political Education, vol. 1. Vienna 1981, p. 19
  2. ↑ August Ernst, Geschichte des Burgenlandes , Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1991, 2nd edition, p. 202. ISBN 3-486-54072-6
  3. ↑ Wolfram Dornik, “It was like in the Wild West”. Consequences of border shifts as a result of the First World War ... In: Siegfried Mattl u. a. (Ed.), War, Memory, History , Publications of the Historical Science Cluster of the Ludwig Boltzmann Society, Vol. 1, pp. 73–87, Böhlau, Vienna 2009, p. 74. ISBN 978-3-205-78193-6
  4. ^ Working group for Austrian history, Austria in history and literature . Vol. 1, Institute for Austrian Studies, History of the Austrian Federal States, Villa Vigoni series, Stiasny, Graz 1957, p. 107
  5. ^ Heinz Kindermann, Calls across borders. Face and living space of border and foreign Germans in their poetry , books of the young generation, Junge Generation Verlag, Berlin 1938, p. 662f.
  6. ↑ Norbert readers, cross-border commuters. Austrian Intellectual History in Necromancy Böhlau, Vienna 1982, Volume 2, p. 123. ISBN 978-3-205-07183-9
  7. ↑ Jakob Perschy, The Invention of Pannonia or Burgenland . In: Dieter A. Binder u. a. (Ed.)., The story of the landscape, Böhlau, Vienna 2011 p. 98f.
  8. ^ Alfred Walheim grave site , Vienna, Zentralfriedhof, Group 12, Extension C, Row 36, No. 40.

literature

  • Johann Kriegler, Political Handbook of Burgenland, Part I (1923–1938). Eisenstadt 1972
  • Gerald Schlag, Burgenland in Biographien , Eisenstadt 1991, pp. 335f.
  • Jakob Perschy, The Invention of Pannonia or Burgenland . In: Dieter A. Binder, Helmut Konrad, Eduard Staudinger (Eduard.)., The story of the landscape, series of publications by the Research Institute for Political-Historical Studies of the Dr.-Wilfried-Haslauer-Bibliothek 34.Böhlau, Vienna 2011, p. 87 -104. ISBN 978-3-205-78186-8

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personal data
SURNAME Walheim, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian author and politician (GDVP, Landbund), member of the state parliament, member of the Federal Council
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Ödenburg
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1945
Place of death Vienna