Franz Eduard Matras

The President of the Austrian Tourist Club (around 1918)

Franz Eduard Matras (born August 21, 1862 in Vienna ; † January 21, 1945 in an air raid there ) was an Austrian sports official and manager ( Hutter & Schrantz Metallwarenfabrik).

Sports official

In his free time, Matras devoted himself to alpine club life, where he originally belonged to the Alpine Society Enzian and later turned to the Austrian Tourist Club (ÖTK). In the ÖTK he initially worked in various working groups, from 1897 as a member of the central committee, where he first became vice-president of the club and from 1912 first club president and held this position until 1939.

In an audience with Emperor Franz Joseph I , he succeeded in maintaining the refuge on the summit of the Hochkönig in Salzburg. The heir to the throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, wanted to have this removed because his hunting area was rounded off.

In 1906 he became a member of the Austrian Alpine Club and numerous other Alpine bodies. His work as President of the ÖTK was particularly extensive, with the clubhouse at Bäckerstrasse number 16 in Vienna being created during his tenure in 1936 .

The Matraswarte am Schöpfl , which was renamed in his honor on the occasion of his 70th birthday

From 1931 he was also the fourth chairman of the DÖAV after the ÖTK had joined it.

Honors

• Name of the refuge on the summit of the Hochkönig as Franz-Eduard-Matras-Haus (1932)
• Matrassteig in Neustadtl on the Danube to the summit stone and the Brandstetterkogel
• Matrassteig am Kieneck in the Gutenstein Alps
• Matraswarte am Schöpfl in the Vienna Woods (1932)
• Franz-Eduard-Matras-Gasse in Kagran (1969)

literature

• R. Hösch:  Matras Franz Eduard. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 146 f. (Direct links on p. 146 , p. 147 ).

Web links

• Franz Eduard Matras in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna