Friedrich Teßmann

Friedrich Teßmann (born February 15, 1884 at Korb Castle in Eppan ; † June 23, 1958 in Bozen ) was a South Tyrolean lawyer , local researcher , politician and book collector.

Life

Friedrich Teßmann was born as the son of Ernst Teßmann from Greifswald and Agnes Schmitz-Werrökke, a native of the Rhineland, at Korb Castle above Missian . He attended the Benedictine grammar school in Meran and then began studying German at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . At the request of his father, however, he soon switched to law , which he initially devoted himself to at the University of Vienna and later at the University of Innsbruck .

As a doctor of law Teßmann worked at the Imperial Lieutenancy Innsbruck , later at the Imperial district administration in Bolzano . During the First World War , he first fought on the Eastern Front in Galicia , then he was a captain in the mountain war in the Dolomites . After the fascist seizure of power, from 1924 onwards he managed the property of the Campofranco family in Kaltern . In 1936, after the death of Princess Campofranco, he retired to his Lindenheim mansion in Eppan, where he intensively studied regional studies. During this time he began, with the support and advice of Karl Theodor Hoeniger , to build up an extensive collection of Tyrolean regions. He made this specialist library available to friends and like-minded people in Bolzano until 1943, when he had to bring it to safety due to the Second World War .

In the post-war period Teßmann became politically active in the ranks of the South Tyrolean People's Party . From 1948 to 1952 he was a member of the regional council of Trentino-South Tyrol and thus also of the South Tyrolean parliament . In the regional government and the state government , he served during this period as Councilor for Agriculture and Forestry, the Cabinet Erckert I also he was Deputy Governor. His main focus was on the cooperative system and the " closed courtyards ". In 1952 he withdrew from politics for health reasons and devoted himself again increasingly to the history of the country , which was reflected in numerous published articles, for example in the journal Der Schlern .

Teßmann bequeathed his extensive Tyrolean collection, which consisted of 12,000 books, graphics, drawings, maps and museum objects, to the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1957 with the condition that it be made accessible to the public and that it be continuously updated. In 1958, shortly after his death, the Teßmann library , managed by the South Tyrolean cultural institute , was opened in Bolzano . This was in 1982 in the South Tyrolean regional library "Dr. Friedrich Teßmann ” .

literature

• Death plaque: Dr. Friedrich Teßmann: kuk commissioner of the pol. Administration a. D., wt. Deputy and assessor of the region and the country, kuk Oberleutnant, honorary member of the Univ. Innsbruck . In: The Sciliar . tape 32 , 1958, pp. 286 .
• Mathias Frei: Dr. Friedrich Teßmann in memory . In: Dolomites . No. 144 , 1978, pp. 15 .

Web links

• Entry on Friedrich Teßmann in the representative database of the South Tyrolean Parliament (PDF)
• 50 years of the Teßmann library: 1958–2008 (PDF file)
• South Tyrolean Provincial Library “Dr. Friedrich Teßmann "
• Teßmann, Friedrich .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .