Franz Aschenbrenner

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Franz Aschenbrenner (born June 30, 1898 in Salzburg , Austria-Hungary , † November 2, 1998 there ) was an Austrian bookseller, mountain guide and Salzburg original.

Life

Franz Aschenbrenner was born on June 30, 1898 in Salzburg's old town on the right . He completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller at the Eugen Richter bookstore on Residenzplatz , now Mora bookstore. Aschenbrenner frequented Hermann Bahr's house as a young bookstore assistant . Aschenbrenner later found a job at the Mayrische Buchhandlung.

Aschenbrenner was drafted during the First World War in 1916. In Salzburg, Aschenbrenner happened to become acquainted with the ski pioneer Georg Bilgeri , who had set up a core alpine force since 1914 and continued to organize the establishment of a mountain guide group and alpine equipment on the Italian front. Aschenbrenner first completed a mountain guide training to become an army mountain guide in the instruction department in St. Christina in Val Gardena , where he made friends with Luis Trenker and joined the kk mountain guide companies . Aschenbrenner served with the Kk Landesschützen Regiment "Trient" No. I , which later received the honorary name Kaiserschützen. He fought in the mountain war on the side of the close friend of the Standschützen Angelo Dibona , with whom he also experienced the end of the war on the Ortler.

From 1918 to 1920, Aschenbrenner was in Italian captivity with Karl Heinrich Waggerl .

In 1936 he married Auguste Schranzhofer. In 1943 Aschenbrenner took over the Alpenwacht bookstore , which previously operated as a Catholic association bookstore .

In 1951 he sold the bookstore again to the Salzburg Press Association and then worked as an antiquarian bookseller. Aschenbrenner was the organizer of the Salzburg “ Edelweiss Kränzchen ” for many years .

He died a few months after his 100th birthday in his native Salzburg.

literature

  • Fritz Rigele (1878–1937): The kuk mountain guide troops in World War I , 1928.
  • Ursula Kramml: Salzburg publishing history from 1945 to 1959 , diploma thesis, 2002.
  • Reinhard R. Heinisch , Friederike Zaisberger : Life beyond death ... Celebrities in the Salzburg municipal cemetery , Publisher: Society for Salzburger Landeskunde, series: Communications of the Society for Salzburger Landeskunde, 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Margret Dietrich : Hermann Bahr Symposium - "The Lord from Linz" , Brucknerhaus. Linz Event Company Ltd, 1984. p. 143.