Austrian Geographical Society

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The Austrian Geographical Society (ÖGG) is an Austrian scientific association based in Vienna . The president has been Helmut Wohlschlägl since 2015 .

society

With around 1,300 members, consisting of natural persons and scientific institutions, the ÖGG is one of the largest scientific associations in Austria. The association holds regular lectures and discussions, excursions and trips. Own publications are brought out for the members. The association runs a library that contains around 22,000 volumes of monographs from around the world, 40% of which date from before 1918. Magazines are exchanged with partners around the world, which means that the collection is constantly being expanded. Finally, the library is home to a map collection of approximately 4,100 units. The library has been on loan to the State Archives since 1997 . It is continuously digitally recorded there.

Particularly noteworthy pieces are the world atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Abraham Ortelius from Antwerp 1571 and the nine volumes of The Balearic Islands by Archduke Ludwig Salvator from 1887.

history

The kk geographical society was founded in 1856. The first volume of the communications of the Imperial and Royal Geographical Society was published as early as 1857 . The ÖGG was also involved in carrying out the Novara expedition from 1857 to 1859, as well as in numerous other research expeditions.

In 1902 the association already had 2,065 members. Both world wars hit the club hard, but research was continued over and over again. After the Second World War , for example, cooperation with the Institute for Geography was intensified.

From 1961 special commissions were established

  • 1961: Cartographic Commission
  • 1987: Geomorphological Commission
  • 1992: Commission for Applied Geography
  • 1994: Commission for Subject Didactics and School Geography
  • 1998: Young ÖGG

In addition, from 1958 branch associations that "operate" independently or branch offices were founded.

  • 1952: Salzburg branch
  • 1958: Krems branch (existed until 1976)
  • 1971: Branch association: Innsbruck Geographical Society
  • 1987: Graz branch
  • 1989: Klagenfurt branch
  • 2001: Branch association: Salzburg Geographical Society

Regular publications

Awards

Since the activities of the ÖGG are only carried out on a voluntary basis, the association sees an opportunity to honor people who were outstanding for the association with awards.

  • 1893 Franz von Hauer Medal for "Expansion and Promotion of Geographical Knowledge", named after the geologist Franz von Hauer :
    • Extracts of the medal are:
1894 Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este , Oskar Baumann
1896 Georg Neumayer , Friedrich Simony
1899 Sven von Hedin , Fridtjof Nansen
1899 Archduke Ludwig Salvator of Austria-Tuscany
1900 Robert Daublebsky von Sterneck
1901 Eduard Sueß
1903 Ferdinand Freiherr von Richthofen
1904 Julius Ritter von Payer , Ludwig Ritter von Höhnel
1906 Julius von Hann , Alexander Supan , Franz Ritter von Wieser
1907 Count Hans Wilczek
1908 Archduke Rainer of Austria
1910 Robert E. Peary
1912 Roald Amundsen
1914 Robert Falcon Scott
1915 Emil Tietze
1918 Oskar Lenz
1922 Otto Nordenskjöld
1931 Alfred Wegener (posthumous)
1956 Otto Schlüter , Hans Wilhelmsson Ahlmann , Roberto Almagià , Fritz Machatschek , Hans Mortensen , Carl Troll
1978 Hans Bobek , Hans Kinzl
1985 Erik Arnberger
1989 Adolf Leidlmair
1996 Elisabeth Lichtenberger
1998 Horst Mensching
2006 Jürgen Bähr , Jaromír Demek , Ulrich Freitag , Helmut Heuberger , Bruno Messerli , Peter Meusburger , Karl Ruppert
2015 Martin Seger
2016 Axel Borsdorf
  • 1907 Large gold medal "adorned with the highest images and motto"
  • 1959–1989: Johann Hampel Prize
    • Winner of the Johann Hampel Prize:
1960 Gustav Holzmann, Franz Lang, Ferdinand Mayer, Walter Schlegl
1961 Josef Gossenreiter, Wigand Ritter, Franz Zwittkovits
1962 Maria Fesl, Walter Kurz, Eugen Swoboda
1963 Heinz Baumgartner, Hilmar Krenn
1964 Diether Bernt, Helmut Desoye, Hans Fischer
1965 Bruno Backé, Franz Dollinger, Felix Jülg, Herbert Spatzenegger
1966 Gunther Chlupac, Helmuth Jeglitsch, Eduard Kunze, Ferdinand Mayer, Karl Schappelwein
1967 Max Fink, Andreas Moritsch, Josef Steinbach, Herwig Wakonigg, Walter Zsillncsar
1968 Anton Lechner, Peter Meusburger, Wolfgang Schwarz, Elisabeth Seger-Heinze, Heinz Slupetzky, Werner Slupetzky
1969 Peter Fritz, Klaus Nozicka, Martin Seger , Peter Wald
1970 Waltraut Scherzinger, Peter Schnitt
1971 Brigitta Richter-Lentsch, Manfred Schopper
1972 Klaus Arnold
1973 Gerhard Fasching, Dagmar Spangenberg-Resmann
1974 Heinz Nissel, Hans Zwittkovits
1975 Paul Lang, Hans Pozdena, Elisabeth Tomasi
1976 Manfred Fischer, Harald Hitz, Walter Kollmann, Karl Trummer
1977 Hanns Kerschner, Harald Praschinger, Franz Stefl
1978 Christian Arnolder, Eckard Delfs, Margarete Stargl
1979 Regina Prehofer, Heinrich Zwittkovits
1980 Heinz Hochschorner, Walter Matznetter, Wolfgang Prochazka, Herbert Wallentin
1981 Christian Auerböck
1982 Franz Brunner, Christine Hamann, Erwin Luntzer, Christoph Steurer
1983 Konrad Höfle, Margarita Moser, Josef Strobl, Rudolf Wastl
1985 Elisabeth Aufhauser
1986 Josef Aistleitner, Maria Kaiser
1987 Gerhard Lieb, Barbara Semmelweiß
1988 Andreas Andiel, Gudrun Lettmayer, Gert Walter Wolf
1989 Friedrich Bertlwieser, Peter Einhorn, Wolfgang Kainz, Gertraud Laber, Walter Matznetter
  • 1991 Establishment of the Hans Bobek Prize in honor of the Honorary President Hans Bobek
    • Winner of the Hans Bobek Prize:
1991 Heinz Fassmann
1993 Armin Ratusny
1994 Rita Schneider Sliwa
1995 Andreas Novy
1997 Gerhard Karl Lieb
1998 Christine Vogt
1999 Franz Dollinger
2000 Hubert Job
2002 Heiko Schmid
2004 Eberhard Rothfuss
2005 Petra Kohler
2006 Lasafam Iturrizaga
2007 Heike Egner
2008 Lars Keller
2009 Diane Tiefenbacher
2010 Kirsten v. Elverfeldt
2011 no award ceremony
2012 Andreas Schaumberger, Matthias Kranabether
2013 Andreas Steiner
2014 Helene Petschko, Andrei Dörre
  • 1995 Establishment of the ÖGG sponsorship award
    • Bearer of the ÖGG sponsorship award
1995 Thomas Blaschke
1997 Anita Pöckl
1998 Gustav Tengg
1999 Martin Heintel
2000 Christine Hintermann
2001 Julia Beckel, Johannes Mayer, Andreas Neumann
2002 Ingrid Pranger
2003 Sylvia Bartl
2004 Nadine Scharfenort
2005 Harald Tomberger
2006 Alexander Wisbauer
2007 Christoph Aubrecht
No award ceremony in 2008
2009 Ingrid Pesau
2010 Huberta Kulmhofer
2011 Ramon Bauer, Clemend Wieser
2012 Barbara Degenhart
2013 Ekrem Canli
2014 Verena Schröder
  • 2000 Establishment of the Leopold Scheidl Prize for Economic Geography
    • Winner of the Leopold Scheidl Prize
2000 Marita Erler
2001 Robert Faustmann
2002 Wolfgang Mikula
2003 Barbara Hofstätter
2004 Goran Žužul, Andreas Oberascher
2005 Stephan Strnadl
2006 Christian Gigon
2008 Sandra Eberhard
No award ceremony in 2009
2010 Sergeja Mirnik, Martin Kraychnikov
2011 no award ceremony
2012 Michael Zwingl
2013 Barbara Pundy
No award ceremony in 2014

Honorary President

Club presidents who have made a special contribution to the club can be named honorary president as an award. Twelve presidents have been appointed so far.

Other presidents (excerpt)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Geographie Aktuell, edition 24 II / 2015, accessed on January 12, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b The Franz v. Hauer Medal: List of living winners accessed on October 6, 2015.
  3. ^ Emil Meynen: Orbis geographicus / World directory of geography . Franz Steiner, Wiesbaden 1960.
  4. ↑ Erzherzog Rainer at oeaw.ac.at; Retrieved February 4, 2013.
  5. ↑ W. Hammer: Emil Tietze † 1931 (PDF; 97 kB) accessed on February 18, 2012.
  6. ↑ Little Chronicle. (...) Court and staff news. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 19265/1918, April 14, 1918, p. 8, center right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
  7. ^ Rainer W. Gärtner:  Schlueter, Otto Louis Karl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 113 f. ( Digitized version ).
  8. ^ A b W. Kainrath:  Bobek, Hans . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 . 2nd revised edition (online only).
  9. ↑ Univ.Prof. Dr. Hans Kinzl - 80 years. In: Oberösterreichische Heimatblätter, online (PDF; 225 kB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
  10. ^ W. Kainrath:  Arnberger, Erik . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 . 2nd revised edition (online only).
  11. ↑ IGF director Borsdorf awarded the Franz von Hauer Medal , accessed on August 14, 2016
  12. ^ Austrian Geographical Society: Communications from the Austrian Geographical Society . Austrian Geographical Society, Vienna 1990.
  13. ↑ ÖGG funding price list [1] accessed on October 22, 2014.
  14. ^ Leopold Scheidl Prize [2] accessed on October 22, 2014.
  15. ^ W. Kainrath:  Brückner, Eduard . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 . 2nd revised edition (online only).}
  16. ↑ Entry on Sölch, Johann in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
  17. ↑ Entry on Spreitzer, Hans in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
  18. ↑ Entry on Fink, Julius in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
  19. ↑ Entry on Scheidl, Leopold G. in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
  20. ↑ Entry on Breu, Josef in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
  21. ↑ Thomas Glade and Helmut Wohlschlägl: Hans Fischer 1931–2016 . In: Communications of the Austrian Geographical Society . tape 158 , 2016, p. 369–372 , doi : 10.1553 / moegg158s369 .
  22. ↑ Entry on Stiglbauer, Karl in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
  23. ^ Gerhard L. Fasching: Former President Walter Petrowitz 1925–2018 . In: Communications of the Austrian Geographical Society . tape 160 , 2018, p. 371–374 , doi : 10.1553 / moegg160s371 .
  24. ↑ Axel Borsdorf on the Geographie Innsbruck page, accessed on March 12, 2012.