Camillo Kronich

Camillo Kronich (born April 5, 1876 in Vienna ; † February 3, 1958 in Reichenau an der Rax ) was an Austrian restaurateur. He made a major contribution to the development of the Rax mountain range and was generally referred to as the "Rax King".

Familiar

Camillo Kronich was the son of the landlords Julius Kronich and Gertrude Göschl († July 7, 1916 at the age of 72), who, coming from Vienna, ran the Baumgartnerhaus am Schneeberg on lease from June 30, 1884 to August 31, 1897 . He had four siblings, including Aurelia Kronich (1875–1929), whom Sigmund Freud treated psychoanalytically and who entered the literature under “Fräulein Katharina”, and Stefan Kronich (23 years old), who on December 12, 1897 during an emergency operation in the Rudolfspital passed away.

Camillo Kronich's mother was the first tenant of the Otto refuge , which was built in 1893 . His wife was Hedwig Kronich.

Life

The Otto-Schutzhaus , whose hut keeper he was for almost half a century

Hedwig Kronich memorial plaque at the Höllental view

Kronich trained and equipped a rescue corps on the Rax from the 1890s. He worked as a photographer and tried to advertise the Rax using the Rax pictures. To this end, he held slide shows in Vienna, Berlin, Prague and Brno and supported painters like Gustl Jahn , who painted Rax pictures for him. Around 1900 he tried to spread skiing on the Rax. For this purpose, for example, he made 100 pairs of rental skis available. In 1903 he followed his mother as leaseholder of the Otto-Schutzhaus and ran the house until 1952.

In April 1908 he opened the Knappenhof as an exclusive Alpine hotel at the foot of the Rax , which his mother subsequently ran and where she died in 1916. Kronich's mother-in-law subsequently ran the business, from 1924 Kronich's wife until her death in 1945.

In 1909 he introduced "pole marking" on the Rax for winter and had numerous via ferratas such as the Alpenvereinssteig and the Haid-Steig built.

In 1914, Kronich was drafted into the Landsturm , but the Ottohaus remained open.

Kommerzialrat Camillo Kronich was buried on February 7, 1958 in the Hietzingen cemetery for the last rest (group 32, grave no. 9).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Historical Alpine Archives: Reichenau Section (OeAV SE / 155/304) ; Retrieved on Feb. 10, 2012
2. ↑ Stephen Taylor: Who's who in Austria , Intercontinental Book and Pub. Co., 1955
3. ^ ^{A b} Herbert Waldhauser: Four blue-yellow decades ; Lower Austria Fund, 1985
4. ↑ The surname is transferred and actually refers to the forest entrepreneur Georg Hu (e) bmer (1755–1833), based on the novel by Ottokar Janetschek in 1929.
5. ↑ Little Chronicle. (...) deaths. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 18634/1916, July 8, 1916, p. 12, center left. (Online at ANNO ). .
6. ^ Lisa Appignanesi, John Forrester: Freud's Women , Basic Books, 1994
7. ↑ Daily news. (...) Stefan Kronich †. In:  Neuigkeits-Welt-Blatt , 2nd sheet, No. 289/1897 (XXIV. Year), December 19, 1897, p. 3 (unpaginated), bottom right. (Online at ANNO ). .
8. ↑ An ambulance from the Raxalpe. (See picture on page 8). In:  Wiener Bilder , No. 52/1897, December 26, 1897, p. 7 center. (Online at ANNO ). .
9. ↑ ^{a b c} 100 years Otto-Schutzhaus auf der Rax, Reichenau section of the Austrian Alpine Club  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Retrieved on Feb. 10, 2012  
10. ↑ cf. Mitteilungen des DuOeAV , Volume 39, 1913, p. 203 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
11. ↑ The opening of the "Knappenhof". (With a photograph on page 6). In:  Wiener Bilder , No. 18/1908 (XIIIth year), April 29, 1908, p. 7, center left. (Online at ANNO ). .
12. ↑ 100 years of Knappenhof  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   , knappenhof.at; Retrieved on Feb. 10, 2012 (link no longer available 2015).
13. ↑ Sports. In:  Oesterreichische Volks-Zeitung , No. 251/1914 (LX. Year), September 11, 1914, p. 6, column 2. (Online at ANNO ). .

Remarks

1. ↑ Julius Kronich, the official leaseholder of the Baumgartnerhaus, had founded an alpine liqueur factory in Payerbach (main product: "Hochkräutler"), the workload of which suggested to him not to try to extend the lease. - See: daily news. (...) From the snow mountains. In:  Neuigkeits -Welt-Blatt , No. 204/1897 (XXIV. Volume), September 7, 1897, p. 4 (unpaginated), bottom left. (Online at ANNO ). .