Fritz Bertlwieser

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Fritz Bertlwieser

Friedrich "Fritz" Bertlwieser (born December 16, 1952 in Kollerschlag , Upper Austria ) is an Austrian geographer, agricultural scientist, theologian, educator, local researcher and author.

Life and career

Fritz Bertlwieser was born as the second of three sons of the Bohemian forests expellees Johann and Theresia Bertlwieser, who came from the purely German-speaking community Reiterschlag, parish Deutsch Reichenau near Friedberg, which was right next to the Austrian border. After the eviction in the 1950s, all the villages, houses and the parish church were razed to the ground. The Bertlwieser family laboriously created a new existence for themselves in the municipality of Rohrbach-Berg (Upper Austria) with a small farm where Fritz Bertlwieser and his brothers grew up in poor conditions.

After graduating from the BRG Rohrbach in 1971, he entered the Schlägl monastery as a novice . From 1972 he studied philosophy, theology and religious education at the University of Innsbruck and graduated with a master's degree in 1978. A short study visit at the University of Munich and military service followed. As a part-time job, he pursued further studies, namely from 1979 to 1982 the study of geography and economics including teaching examination at the University of Innsbruck, as well as from 1984 a doctorate in agricultural geography with the dissertation "Agricultural structure change in the Upper Mühlviertel", which he received from the University of Innsbruck with distinction in 1988/89 PhD in natural sciences. The dissertation was awarded the prize of the Austrian Geographical Society . Then followed English studies at the University of Salzburg (1991–1993) and from 2005 a second doctoral degree in theology (church history) with the dissertation “Bohemian Forest-Grenzlandpfarre Deutsch Reichenau near Friedberg. From the beginnings during the clearing colonization to the extinction in the 20th century ”, with which he obtained his doctorate in theology (church history) at the University of Salzburg in 2010.

From 1978 to 2013 he taught at the Rohrbach Commercial Academy, where he was appointed professor in 1989. From 2016 he will be a lecturer at the University of Education in Linz . In 2018 he supplemented this with lectures at the Philosophical-Theological University of Heiligenkreuz .

Bertlwieser is the author of six books and numerous articles in books and periodicals on local history, agricultural and economic geography, contemporary, economic and church history as well as theological topics. His research focuses on the Austrian Mühlviertel , especially from an agri-geographical, agricultural-historical and natural-spatial point of view, as well as the Bohemian Forest and the Sudeten German themes. He gave numerous lectures on the topic of "Expelling the Bohemian Forests" and led many excursions to the Bohemian border area. In addition, he has a number of honorary functions, including a. as chairman of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft of the Rohrbach district , as editor or employee of the parish gazette and secretary of the parish council Haslach , as well as custodian of the German Reichenauer Heimatstube in St. Oswald . In sports competitions he won a number of medals in athletics and ski races at regional level. Fritz Bertlwieser lives in Haslach, he has been married since 1990 and the father of two children.

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • 1977: On Overcoming Suffering and Oppression in Liberation Theology. Diploma thesis / University of Innsbruck; 76 pages.
  • 1988: Agricultural structure change in the Upper Mühlviertel. Dissertation at the Geographical Institute of the University of Innsbruck; 310 pages.
  • 1995: Lost Bohemian Forest home. Home book of the parish of Deutsch-Reichenau near Friedberg, Reiterschlag parish from blossom to destruction. Linz 1995, 320 pages (together with Franz Bertlwieser).
  • 1997: St. Thoma in the Bohemian Forest. Consecration 1997. Festschrift. 60 pages.
  • 1999: Mills - Hammers - Saws. Upper Mühlviertel / Bohemian Forest / Bavarian Forest. Linz 1999. 320 pages.
  • 2002: Agriculture in Transition. Upper Mühlviertel - Bohemian Forest. Linz 2002. 320 pages.
  • 2005: Bohemian Forest border parish Deutsch-Reichenau near Friedberg in the 20th century. Political-economic and ecclesiastical-religious situation. 176 pages.
  • 2007: St. Thoma in the Bohemian Forest . Farni kostel na sv. Tomasi. (Church leader St. Thoma).
  • 2010: Bohemian Forest border parish German Reichenau near Friedberg. From the beginnings during the clearing colonization to the extinction in the 20th century. Dissertation University of Salzburg; 499 pages.
  • 2011: German Reichenau - St. Thoma. Bohemian Forest border parish. From the beginnings during the clearing colonization to the extinction in the 20th century. 288 pages.
  • 2013: The Mühlviertel on the way to becoming the number one bioregion in Europe. In: Passau and its neighboring regions. Festschrift for the 58th German Geographers' Day 2013 in Passau. (Ed. W. Gamerith et al.), Verlag Pustet, pp. 516-529.
  • 2019: Fateful years 1918 - 1938 - 1945/46 - 1948 for the Šumava parishes and the situation and role of the clergy and the church. In: History and Culture in the Rohrbach District, Issue 26, pp. 5–23. (Publication of the lecture on November 26, 2018 at the Philosophical-Theological University of Heiligenkreuz).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertations in the 2009/2010 academic year at Kath.-Theol. Faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms-Univ. Münster , accessed March 8, 2016
  2. ↑ Dissertations from Patristic and Church History - University of Salzburg , accessed on March 8, 2016
  3. ↑ Nov. 26, 2018: Graduation with Prof. Bertlwieser
  4. ↑ University of Applied Sciences in Heiligenkreuz, winter semester 2018/19, pages 10 and 15
  5. ↑ List of the Austrian Library Association .
  6. ↑ List of the Bavarian Library Association (BVB) , accessed on March 8, 2016
  7. ↑ Mühlviertler mills in an illustrated book - Article of ReSI Upper Austria from November 18, 1999 , accessed on March 8, 2016
  8. ^ Agriculture in Transition - Book presentation in Julbach - Article by ReSI Upper Austria from January 14, 2003 , accessed on March 8, 2016
  9. ↑ Reading by Dr. Fritz Bertlwieser in Lembach - Article in ReSI Upper Austria from November 4, 2004 , accessed on March 8, 2016
  10. ↑ Reading by Dr. Mag. Fritz Bertlwieser from his book "Landwirtschaft im Wandel. Upper Mühlviertel - Böhmerwald" , accessed on March 8, 2016
  11. ↑ The lost home is being rediscovered . Bezirksrundschau Rohrbach, June 18, 2015, accessed on March 8, 2016
  12. ↑ Results 2002 2Länderlauf Oberkappel , accessed on March 8, 2016
  13. ↑ State correspondence No. 105 of June 1, 2011 , accessed on March 8, 2016
  14. ↑ Culture medals and consultant titles - Article of the Rohrbach district review of April 11, 2013 , accessed on March 8, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Bertlwieser, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bertlwieser, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian geographer, agricultural scientist, theologian, pedagogue, local researcher, author and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Kollerschlag , Upper Austria , Austria