Ferdinand Krackowizer (local history researcher)

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Ferdinand Krackowizer (born December 11, 1851 in Gmunden ; † June 29, 1929 there ) was an Austrian doctor, local researcher and mayor of Gmunden.

Life

Ferdinand Krackowizer, son of the same name Gmunden surgeon, studied medicine at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in 1878 for Dr. med. During his studies in 1872 he became a member of the Upper Austrian Germanic fraternity in Vienna . He worked as a railway, forest and community doctor in Gmunden and Gschwandt . He was mayor of Gmunden from 1912 to 1924 and a member of the state parliament from 1914 to 1919 . In 1908 he was made an honorary citizen of Gmunden.

Krackowizer was also active as a dialect poet and local researcher, he wrote a three-volume "History of the City of Gmunden" illustrated by Adolf Fischer .

Works

  • History of the city of Gmunden in Upper Austria. 3 volumes. Gmunden 1898-1900.
  • Summer days in the Innviertel. kuk Hofbuchdruckerei Jos. Feichtingers Erben , Linz 1894, 31 pages.
  • On the blue Danube. Humoresques from Upper Austria. Printed and published by the Upper Austrian Book Printing and Publishing Company, Linz 1900, 118 pages.

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SURNAME Krackowizer, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian doctor, local researcher and politician, member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Gmunden
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1929
Place of death Gmunden