Erich Forstreiter

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Erich Forstreiter (born March 7, 1897 in Vienna ; † February 7, 1963 there ) was an Austrian historian and state archivist .

biography

family

Forstreiter comes from a family originally based in the Prince Archbishopric of Salzburg . His father, the later Viennese chief district medical and Councilor Emmerich Forstreiter was in 1904 as a district doctor in Horn worked so Forstreiter spent his youth there. On June 28, 1933, Forstreiter married the pedagogue Marianne Miklas, the eldest daughter of the Austrian Federal President Wilhelm Miklas .

Education

After high school at high school horn Forstreiter took in 1915 at the University of Vienna , a study of the history and geography to which from 1916 to 1918 from military service was interrupted. He then graduated from the University of Vienna's Institute for Austrian Historical Research , which he graduated with success in 1922. In 1925 Forstreiter was at Vienna University with a thesis on "The German Reich Chancellery and their by firms under Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg" for Doctor of Philosophy PhD .

Employment

Theodor Mayer , who was then head of the archive for Lower Austria in Vienna, initially employed Forstreiter as a volunteer from 1922 . Forstreiter took over Mayer's successor Josef Kraft in 1926 as a permanent state archivist. In the following years Forstreiter became Kraft's closest collaborator. Since the Lower Austrian Provincial Archives still existed in addition to the Archives for Lower Austria , Forstreiter advocated the creation of a uniform Lower Austrian archive. Nevertheless, the two archives were only united on June 1, 1940 to form the Lower Danube Reichsgau Archive , from which today's Lower Austrian Provincial Archives emerged. Forstreiter was appointed deputy to Karl Lechner , the newly appointed director of the Reichsgau Archive, and took over the management of the “State Administration” department.

As early as 1938, Forstreiter was involved in the relocation and incorporation of archival material into the Reichsgau Archive, which had been found in Aryanized castles or castles classified as enemy property or in expropriated monasteries .

Forstreiter's political position cannot be clearly identified. He cultivated relationships with German national , but also with Catholic circles. But he was also a member of the German Club from 1929 to 1934 and belonged to the German School Association Südmark for a long time . He worked for the Catholic Action and was explosives manager of the Fatherland Front . In April 1938 he tried to be admitted to the NSDAP , which he was initially refused due to his family ties to Federal President Miklas and his activities for the Fatherland Front. Only in July 1940 was he granted membership in the party. However, he was still considered not very reliable and therefore lost his position in the Propaganda Office in April 1943 .

Although archive director Karl Lechner stood up for him, Forstreiter was suspended from duty in February 1946 and retired two years later .

In the following years Forstreiter looked after the Horner city ​​archives and did a great job researching the history of the city of Horner . The focus of his publications was on the city of Horn and the Waldviertel . He later took over the task of organizing the archive of his Maissau Castle from Ferdinand Graf von Abensperg and Traun , but died before the task was completed.

Publications

(Selection)

  • Erich Forstreiter: The archive of the Krems district court in the archive for Lower Danube . Kaltschmid publishing house, Vienna [1940].
  • Erich Forstreiter: The Horner Bürgerspital, its foundation and legal historical development and its archive . In: Yearbook for regional studies of Lower Austria. New episode Volume 31, 1953/1954. Self-published by the Association for Regional Studies of Lower Austria, Vienna 1954, p. 34 ff ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
  • Erich Forstreiter: The “Theater” department of the archive for Lower Austria . In: The federal state of Lower Austria. Its constitutional, economic, cultural and social development in the first decade of existence. 1920-1930 . Publishing house of the Office of the Lower Austrian Provincial Government, Vienna 1930, p. 460 ff.
  • Erich Forstreiter: The beginnings of humanistic schooling in Horn and the forerunners of the grammar school before the Piarist grammar school was established in 1657 . Special print from Schola Hornana. Commemorative publication for the opening of the new building of the Horner Federal Middle Schools, December 18, 1961. Self-published, Horn 1962.
  • Erich Forstreiter: The mayors of the city of Horn over the past 400 years . In: Horner Calendar 83 (1954) , unpaginated.
  • Erich Forstreiter: The German Reich Chancellery and its subsidiary chancelleries under Emperor Sigmund of Luxembourg. The office staff and their organization. A contribution to the history of the German Reich Chancellery in the later Middle Ages. Diss. Phil. University of Vienna. Typed, Vienna 1924.
  • Erich Forstreiter: The inventory of state archives in Lower Austria. Presentation by the retired Lower Austrian Provincial Archivist Erich Forstreiter (Vienna), held at the first Austrian archive day. In: Communications from the Austrian State Archives . Vol. 2. Verlag der Österreichische Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1949, p. 94 ff.
  • Erich Forstreiter: Simon Amman von Asparn. A Lower Austrian as a notary in the German Imperial Chancellery of Emperor Sigmund of Luxembourg. In: Yearbook for regional studies of Lower Austria. New series Volume 21, 1927/1928. Self-published by the Association for Regional Studies of Lower Austria, Vienna 1928, p. 112 ff ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).

literature

  • Felix Czeike: Forstreiter, Erich . In: Historisches Lexikon Wien in 6 volumes . Vol. 2, De - Gy. Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau / Orac, Vienna / Munich / Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-218-00743-7 , p. 351. Digitized
  • Stefan Eminger: The Lower Austrian Provincial Archives 1938-1945 . In: Austria's archives under the swastika. Communications from the Austrian State Archives . Vol. 54. Studienverlag, Innsbruck / Vienna / Bozen 2010, ISBN 978-3-7065-4941-7 , p. 473 ff.
  • Michael Hochedlinger: Austrian Archive History. From the late Middle Ages to the end of the paper age. Historical auxiliary sciences . Vol. 5. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-2057-8906-2 .
  • Karl Lechner: State archivist Dr. Erich Forstreiter †. In: Our home. Monthly newspaper of the Association for Regional Studies of Lower Austria and Vienna . Vol. 34. Self-published, Vienna 1963/1964, p. 85 f.
  • Nieder-Österreichisches Landes-Gymnasium Horn (Hrsg.): Annual report of the Nieder-Österreichisches Landes- Real- und Ober-Gymnasium in Horn. Self-published by the Nieder-Österreichisches Landes-Gymnasium Horn 1908, p. 1 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erich Forstreiter: The Horner Bürgerspital, its foundation and legal historical development and its archive . In: Yearbook for regional studies of Lower Austria. New episode . tape 31, 1953/1954 . Self-published by the Association for Regional Studies of Lower Austria, Vienna 1954, p. 34 ff .
  2. ↑ Nieder-Österreichisches Landes-Gymnasium Horn (Hrsg.): Annual report of the Niederösterreichisches Landes-Real- und Ober-Gymnasium in Horn . Self-published by the Nieder-Österreichisches Landes-Gymnasium Horn, Horn 1908, p. 4 .
  3. ↑ Felix Czeike: Forstreiter, Erich . In: Historisches Lexikon Wien in 6 volumes . tape 2 , De - Gy. Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau / Orac, Vienna / Munich / Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-218-00743-7 , p. ´351 .
  4. ^ Stefan Eminger: The Lower Austrian Provincial Archives 1938-1945 . In: Austria's archives under the swastika. Communications from the Austrian State Archives . tape 54 . Studienverlag, Innsbruck / Vienna / Bozen 2010, ISBN 978-3-7065-4941-7 , p. 473 ff .
  5. ↑ Felix Czeike: Forstreiter, Erich . In: Historisches Lexikon Wien in 6 volumes . tape 2 , De - Gy. Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau / Orac, Vienna / Munich / Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-218-00743-7 , p. ´351 .
  6. ↑ Erich Forstreiter: The Horner Bürgerspital, its foundation and legal historical development and its archive . In: Yearbook for regional studies of Lower Austria. New episode . tape 31, 1953/1954 . Self-published by the Association for Regional Studies of Lower Austria, Vienna 1954, p. 34 ff .
  7. ↑ Forstreiter did not receive his doctorate as early as 1921, as stated by Felix Czeike. This contradicts the year of the completion of his dissertation and his own statements in: Das Horner Bürgerspital, its foundation and legal historical development and its archive. In: Yearbook for regional studies of Lower Austria. New episode. Vol. 31, 1953/1954. Self-published by the Association for Regional Studies of Lower Austria, Vienna 1954, p. 34 ff.
  8. ^ Michael Hochedlinger: Austrian archive history. From the late Middle Ages to the end of the paper age . In: Historical auxiliary sciences . tape 5 . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-205-78906-2 , p. 218 .
  9. ^ Stefan Eminger: The Lower Austrian Provincial Archives 1938-1945 . In: Austria's archives under the swastika. Communications from the Austrian State Archives . tape 54 . Studienverlag, Innsbruck / Vienna / Bozen 2010, ISBN 978-3-7065-4941-7 , p. 473 ff .
  10. ↑ Erich Rabl: The city archive Horn . In: Heimatforschung today. Lectures at the symposium "New aspects of local and regional history" from October 24th to 26th, 1987 in Horn. Series of publications by the Waldviertel Homeland Association . tape 29 . Self-published by the Waldviertler Heimatbund, Horn 1988, p. 171 ff .
  11. ↑ Helmuth Feigl / Thomas Stockinger: The land register of the lords of Maissau and Sonnberg. On the occasion of the division of the inheritance to Georg von Eckartsau in 1497 . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2008, ISBN 978-3-205-78184-4 , p. 1 ff .
personal data
SURNAME Forest rider, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian and state archivist
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1963
Place of death Vienna