Anton Würzl

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Anton Würzl (born August 18, 1925 in Vienna ; † July 3, 2001 ) was Ministerialrat in the Austrian Federal Ministry for Trade, Commerce and Industry and an author in the field of the Austrian tourism industry.

Life

In 1956, Würzl was one of the founding members of the Federation of Austrian Hospitality (BÖG; today Best Austrian Hospitality ).

Würzl was a civil servant and later Ministerialrat of the Ministry of Commerce in Vienna. There he worked from 1970 to 1983 exclusively under the social democratic minister Josef Staribacher and was a permanent representative of the ministry in discussions on Austria advertising .

On behalf of the ministry, among other things, he supported the founding of the Hogast purchasing cooperative for Austria's hotel and hospitality industry, which was founded in 1976, and was a sought-after speaker on tourism topics throughout Austria.

In 1992, Würzl was the founding president of the Pannonia Club, which describes itself as the society for maintaining Austro-Hungarian relations. Anton Würzl was a long-time lecturer at the Vienna University of Economics and Business on the subject of tourism policy and, as Josef Mazanec ( Module University Vienna ) emphasizes, played a key role in shaping the regularly organized Austrian Tourism Days.

Würzl was also one of the scientific employees of the "cultural information system " aeiou .

Fonts

  • As editor: Austrian Tourism Day. Course and results . Vienna 1968
  • The economic impact of recreational housing on tourist communities . Vienna 1973. (Diploma thesis at the University of World Trade , Vienna)
  • Winter sports and landscape in the alpine region . In: Wildnis, Forst und Ackerland , Vienna 1974, pp. 185–189.
  • The entrepreneur in the Austrian hotel industry: a historical-sociological analysis of entrepreneurship in the Austrian hotel industry . Vienna 1976. (Dissertation, submitted 1977 at the Vienna University of Economics and Business )
  • Tourism policy for the future . In: Lebensraum Alpen , Innsbruck 1981, pp. 145–154. (Report from the Alpine Club Symposium of the OEAV, DAV, AVS from March 5th to 7th, 1981 in Tyrol)

literature

  • Aldo Debene: Contributions to Austrian tourism policy: Festschrift for the completion of the 60th year of life by Ministerialrat Dr. Anton Würzl . Austrian Hotel Association, Vienna 1985. (Debene was regional tourism director of Upper Austria)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Text on the 60th anniversary of the BÖG, 2016
  2. ↑ Pioneers with a vision - 40 years of HOGAST
  3. ^ Website of the Pannonia Club
  4. ^ Message from Josef Mazanec dated May 29, 2018
  5. ↑ [1]
personal data
SURNAME Würzl, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ministerial official
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 3, 2001