Franz Hieronymus Riedl

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Franz Hieronymus Riedl (born April 2, 1906 in Vienna , † April 2, 1994 in Lana ) was an Austrian journalist and folk researcher .

origin

Franz Xaver Hieronymus Riedl was born on April 2, 1906 in Vienna-Josefstadt . His father was the master tailor Franz Riedel, who was born there in 1879 and died in 1956. His mother Helene, née Gutruf, was born in Atzgersdorf near Vienna in 1884 . The parents married in 1904 after they had previously met in their ancestors' homeland in South Moravia ; the paternal branch came from Mödlau , a German community with around 700 inhabitants on the language border near Brno , the maternal branch from the neighboring, mixed- language Mohleis . Grandfather Peter Riedl, born in Mödlau in 1858, died in Vienna in 1934, founded his tailoring business in 1869 at Ledergasse 37. His wife Theresia, née Junge, was born in Heinzendorf in Austrian Silesia in 1854 and died in Vienna in 1919, was a seamstress. The 1851 in the Apollogasse in Vienna new -born maternal grandmother, Barbara Gutruf was the daughter of immigrants from Moleis Andreas Prohaska, born in 1820, the Wagner and refinisher was. Prohaska had started as a journeyman and built up a flourishing business on Brillantengrund and, with the support of the beer brewer Dreher , was able to build a large apartment building in Apollogasse, which was lost during the inflationary period after 1918.

Live and act

After obtaining his Matura in 1925, Riedl studied history , geography , art history , philosophy and German at the University of Vienna . He also studied three semesters at the University of Marburg . With a dissertation on the development of the border between Lower Austria and Moravia and the German colonization of South Moravia , he was a PhD .

Riedl, an expert on minority problems in the Alpine and Danube regions, came from the Bund Neuland youth movement . As early as the 1930s he dealt intensively with ethnicity issues in Southeast Europe. From 1933 to 1944 he worked as a correspondent in Budapest .

Riedl approached National Socialism early on and applied for membership in the NSDAP in Berlin on June 19, 1933 . He worked as a correspondent for Reich German papers in Vienna, and after a short imprisonment in Budapest as a result of the July coup . Riedl also worked at the German Embassy in Budapest and as a war correspondent, and when the Red Army approached Budapest, he fled first to the Ötztal and then across the border to South Tyrol . He made contact with Bishop Alois Hudal in Rome, who had also believed in a possible compatibility of Catholicism and National Socialism. In cooperation with Alois Hudal, Riedl helped numerous National Socialists to flee, including SS functionaries wanted as war criminals such as Otto Wächter .

After the Second World War , South Tyrol became his second home; from 1946 to 1971 he worked in Bolzano as culture editor for the German-language daily newspaper Dolomiten . Riedl was also a co-founder of the South Tyrolean Cultural Institute in Bolzano and co-editor of the Europa Ethnica magazine , which specialized in minority issues. He wrote a large number of scientific articles on the South Tyrol question and other minority problems. Riedl dedicated numerous publications to his adopted South Tyrolean home. He also worked as a curator at the Messerschmitt Foundation , which has set itself the task of preserving historical buildings.

In 1981 he was one of the signatories of the Heidelberg Manifesto .

honors and awards

In 1962 Riedl received the Konstantin Jireček Medal for his services in founding the Southeast European Society. In 1966 he was given the title of "Professor" by the Austrian Chancellor. In recognition of his special services to the cultural promotion of South Tyrol in the context of journalism and the excellent character of his work as well as his cultural support for German refugees from the south-east region, he was entered in the book of honor of the University of Innsbruck and the award of the Excellenti in Litteris .

Works and publications

  • A pioneer of ethnic German thought, by Federal Chancellor Ignaz Seipel , Saarbrücken 1935
  • Hungary, Land of the Stephanskrone , Reichenau in Saxony 1936
  • German peasant life in Hungary , Berlin 1938
  • Germanness between Pressburg and Bartfeld , Berlin 1940/1943
  • Neighboring Hungary , Neusatz / Novisad 1944
  • South Tyrol, Buchenhain near Munich 1956
  • How do I host and entertain guests? , Trento 1959
  • Bolzano city guide , Bolzano 1961/1967
  • Southeast Germanism 1918-1945 , Munich 1962
  • Southeast Germanism, 1900-1918 , Munich 1970
  • The book from Lake Garda , Vienna 1955

Texts for illustrated books

  • The book from Lake Garda , Vienna 1955
  • Dolomites , Munich 1955/1964
  • South Tyrol , Munich 1565
  • Around Lake Garda , Munich 1958
  • the castles of South Tyrol , Novara 1959
  • the castles of South Tyrol , Rovereto 1960
  • Carinthia , Munich 1960
  • South Tyrol Travel Guide , (Italian edition) 1962
  • Burgenland , Munich 1962
  • Lower Austria , Munich 1963
  • Tyrol , Munich 1963
  • Salzburg and the Salzkammergut , Munich 1964/1966
  • Südtirol , (also in English and French edition) Munich 1965
  • Austria in 1000 , pictures Munich 1966
  • Lake Garda , Rovereto 1968
  • Autumn in South Tyrol , Bolzano 1969
  • The South Tyrolean Wine Route , Bolzano 1970
  • Experience South Tyrol , Bolzano 1970

literature

  • Ethnicity between the Moldau, Adige and Danube. Festschrift for FH Riedl on the age of 65, performed by Theodor Veiter . Verlag Wilhelm Braumüller, Vienna-Stuttgart 1971, ISBN 3-7003-0007-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theodor Veiter: Volkstum between Moldau, Etsch and Danube . In: Freundeskreis FH Riedl (ed.): ETHNOS . tape 10 . Wilhelm Braumüller University Publishing House, Vienna-Stuttgart 1971, ISBN 3-7003-0007-7 , p. 1 .
  2. ^ Theodor Veiter: Volkstum between Moldau, Etsch and Danube . In: Freundeskreis FH Riedl (ed.): ETHNOS . tape 10 . Wilhelm Braumüller University Publishing House, Vienna-Stuttgart 1971, ISBN 3-7003-0007-7 , p. 5 .
  3. ^ Theodor Veiter: Volkstum between Moldau, Etsch and Danube . In: Freundeskreis FH Riedl (ed.): ETHNOS . tape 10 . Wilhelm Braumüller University Publishing House, Vienna-Stuttgart 1971, ISBN 3-7003-0007-7 , p. 3 .
  4. ^ Theodor Veiter: Volkstum between Moldau, Etsch and Danube . In: Freundeskreis FH Riedl (ed.): ETHNOS . tape 10 . Wilhelm Braumüller University Publishing House, Vienna-Stuttgart 1971, ISBN 3-7003-0007-7 , p. 9 .
  5. ↑ Brigitte Behal: The Feldkirch lawyer Theodor Veiter - Catholic and German-national , p. 12 . Retrieved July 23, 2020
  6. ^ Brigitte Behal: Continuities and discontinuities of German national Catholic elites in the period 1930-1965 . Dissertation, Vienna 2009, pp. 203, 213 . Retrieved July 23, 2020
  7. ↑ Gerald Steinacher: Nazis on the run . StudienVerlag, Innsbruck-Wien-Bozen 2003, ISBN 978-3-7065-4026-1 , p. 260 ff .
  8. ↑ Gerald Steinacher: Nazis on the run . StudienVerlag, Innsbruck-Wien-Bozen 2003, ISBN 978-3-7065-4026-1 .
  9. ↑ Philippe Sands: The Ratline, Love, Lies and Justice on the trail of a Nazi Fugitive . Orion Publishing Group, London 2020, ISBN 978-1-4746-0813-8 .
  10. ^ Theodor Veiter: Volkstum between Moldau, Etsch and Danube . In: Freundeskreis FH Riedl (ed.): ETHNOS . tape 10 . Wilhelm Braumüller University Publishing House, Vienna - Stuttgart 1971, ISBN 3-7003-0007-7 , p. 19 .
  11. ^ Theodor Veiter: Volkstum between Moldau, Etsch and Danube . In: Freundeskreis FH Riedl (ed.): ETHNOS . tape 10 , no. 22 . Wilhelm Braumüller University Publishing House, Vienna - Stuttgart 1971, ISBN 3-7003-0007-7 , p. 22 .
personal data
SURNAME Riedl, Franz Hieronymus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist and folklore researcher
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna-Josefstadt
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1994
Place of death Lana