August Prinzinger the Younger

August Prinzinger the Elder J. (* 26. March 1851 in Salzburg , † 6. December 1918 in Salzburg) was a lawyer and governor -Stellvertreter of Salzburg. He earned services in the areas of local history and folklore as well as nature conservation.

Life

He was born as the son of August Prinzinger the Elder. and Josefine Loe, daughter of Obertforstratstahl from Vienna. He studied after visiting the Salzburg school from 1869 at the Universities of Heidelberg, Munich and Vienna as his father Jura and received his doctorate in 1875 for Dr. jur. From 1875 to 1880 he worked at the Saalfelden Regional Court, from 1880 to 1897 Prinzinger headed the law firm in Salzburg that he had taken over from his father. In 1883 he married Berta Zinner the daughter of a Viennese forest council.

In 1908 Prinzinger left politics, resigned from his functions to study folklore, German and ancient Gothic at the University of Munich from 1909 and 1910. On two trips to North America (1880 and 1893) and various trips to Scandinavia, he also got to know the early ideas and goals of the nature conservation movement in the protected areas there. As a mountaineer, he was also active on the central committee of the German and Austrian Alpine Club . Its outstanding importance was above all that, as the Austrian representative of the Nature Conservation Park Association (based in Stuttgart), in a first implementation of the idea of ​​creating four large and representative national parks between the Alps and the North Sea, he leased land near Schladming in 1912 and denied it in 1913 Purchase of 11 km² in the Salzburg Stubach Valley and the Amertal and thus laid the foundation for the later Hohe Tauern National Park . The First World War and the subsequent global economic crisis prevented further planned purchases ; a long-term lease of adjacent areas owned by the Federal Forests was about to be concluded before the First World War. Heinrich Medicus was the successor to August Prinzinger in the Nature Protection Park Association.

After August Prinzinger the Elder J. was named "Prinzingerstraße" in the Salzburg district of Nonntal . The club house of the nature reserve in the Stubachtal (today a private house) is still known as the "Prinzingerhaus" in honor of Prinzinger.

Writings of the author

• August Prinzinger: The Settlement of the Salzburgers in the State of Georgia in North America, in: Communications of the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies. 22, 1882;
• August Prinzinger: About some “Heidenwege” in the Salzburg mountains, especially over the Korntauern, communications from the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies, 28, 1888;
• August Prinzinger: The Stubach Valley. A nature reserve of the future, in: Yearbook of the DÖAV, 1916;

literature

• J. Angermayer, "Dr. August Prinzinger" an obituary, in: Mitt. Der Gesellschaft für Salzburger Landeskunde. 59, 1919. pp. 80 ff.
• H. Wagner:  Prinzinger, August d. J .. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 285.

Web links

• August Prinzinger the Younger . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .