Franz Pittner

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Franz Pittner 1923

Franz Pittner (born March 20, 1862 in St. Pölten ; † September 19, 1929 there ) was an Austrian hotelier, sports official and member of the Lower Austrian state parliament for the Christian Social Party .

Life

After his apprenticeship in 1882, Pittner looked for positions abroad in Paris, Brussels, Ostend and the USA. He then took over the Zum rothen Krebs inn, acquired by his father of the same name in 1837, and from 1896 planned a fundamental renovation and new building based on the model of large New York hotels. The resulting Grand Hotel Pittner survived until 1984.

In addition to his activities around his company, Pittner was also involved in politics. Among other things, he was curator of the Sparkasse St. Pölten , municipal council in St. Pölten and chairman of the St. Pölten trade association. He was also a member of the Lower Austrian state parliament from 1909 , most recently in the provisional state parliament of Lower Austria until 1919.

In his private life, trotting was a great passion of Pittner. He founded the St. Pöltner Trabrennverein, under his supervision the St. Pölten Trabrennbahn was built on the site of today's government district , and he was president of the Association of Provincial Trotting Clubs until his death .

Family, honors and awards

Pittner's cellar on Finkensteinweg, then Pittnerberg

Pittner's marriage to Käthe, née Friedl, had four daughters: Karoline, Käthe, Stefanie and Hermine.

Pittner had four sisters, Leopoldine was married to Otto Eybner and the mother of Richard Eybner .

honors and awards

First automobile in St. Pölten

A Peugeot Type 26 (not Pittners)

Franz Pittner bought a Peugeot Type 26 in 1900 and with it the first automobile in St. Pölten. The vehicle, which was assigned the registration number B393 in 1906 , remained in his possession until Pittner's death. Pittner's driver Edi then took care of the vehicle, which, however, did not survive World War II. After the end of the war, two brothers smuggled the vehicle from the Soviet occupation zone to Upper Austria and tried to sell it there; later they carried out unprofessional restorations on their own. In the early 1950s, the Peugeot was finally found in Linz, where Max Reisch bought it. Reisch had the vehicle completely refurbished from 1972 to 1975, and it could be seen at various exhibitions until the 1990s. From 1998 the vehicle was in the Reisch-Orient-Archiv in Bolzano .

In 2020 the vehicle was auctioned off by the Dorotheum , with an estimated value of € 60,000 to € 80,000, it achieved a sales price of € 143,000. The vehicle is considered to be the oldest still ready-to-drive automobile delivered in Austria.

Tomb

Franz Pittner is buried in a temple-like tomb at the St. Pölten main cemetery, the tomb is under monument protection ( list entry ).

The tomb was made in 1905 by Pittner's own cement and artificial stone factory from Portland cement concrete . During the construction, the underground crypt was equipped with electric light. The female figure represents mourning and symbolically hangs a wreath on the back wall of the mausoleum, it was modeled by the sculptors Michael Drobil and Willibald Forstner and poured from cement.

  • Pittner family tomb

  • inside view

  • Inscription with Franz Pittner's name on the grave

  • Elevation from 1905 (version slightly different)

  • Floor plan from 1905 (execution slightly different)

Web links

Commons : Franz Pittner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hotelier Franz Pittner † .. In:  Tages-Post , September 21, 1929, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / tpt
  2. ^ Kommerzialrat Franz Pittner died. In:  Der Tag / Der Wiener Tag , September 20, 1929, p. 10 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / maintenance / day
  3. ↑ Commercial Councilor Franz Pittner. In:  Neue Freie Presse , September 21, 1929, p. 19 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp
  4. ^ Official part. In:  Wiener Zeitung , February 7, 1902, p. 1 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz
  5. ↑ Commercial Councilor Franz Pittner. In:  Oesterreichische Kronen-Zeitung. Illustrirtes Tagblatt / Illustrierte Kronen-Zeitung / Wiener Kronen-Zeitung , October 30, 1923, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / short
  6. ↑ Manfred Wieninger : St. Pöltner tell street names. Loewenzahn, Innsbruck 2002, ISBN 3-7066-2208-4 , p. 110: Entry on Franz-Pittner-Gasse .
  7. ↑ Manfred Wieninger : St. Pöltner tell street names. Loewenzahn, Innsbruck 2002, ISBN 3-7066-2208-4 , entry on Finkensteinweg .
  8. ↑ Pittner's automobile, Lot at Dorotheum (2020)
  9. ↑ Thomas Karl among others: The art monuments of the city of St. Pölten and its incorporated localities. Berger, Horn 1999, ISBN 3-85028-310-0 ( Austrian Art Topography 54). Chapter Municipal Main Cemetery , pp. 310-312
  10. ^ Tomb and crypt of the Pittner family in St. Pölten. In:  Der Bautechniker , February 24, 1905, pp. 1–2 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / maintenance / construction
personal data
SURNAME Pittner, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian hotelier and politician (CSP), member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Polten
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1929
Place of death St. Polten