Georg Widmer

Georg Widmer (* 1877 in Koflern , Krain ; † October 16, 1941 in Graz , Styria ) was an Austrian university lecturer , historian , linguist and author .

Live and act

Georg Widmer was born in Koflern (today Koblarji in Slovenia ), in the Kronland Carniola of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy . His birthplace had about 200 inhabitants at the time and was about four kilometers north of the district capital Gottschee . Widmer grew up in a small farming family and first attended elementary school in neighboring Mitterdorf . He then completed the Untergymnasium in Gottschee and then, up to the final exam , the Obergymnasium in Graz.

Then Widmer began at the Karl-Franzens University in a study of philosophy , which he largely through grant tutoring funded. After graduating, he taught as a supplement on the III. Staatsgymnasium, later the Oeverseegymnasium in Graz. After 1906, Widmer moved to the Bohemian town of Leitmeritz , where he taught history and geography at the Imperial and Royal State Realschule . His next professional station was in Prague , where he taught at the German-speaking State High School until the collapse of the dual monarchy in 1918.

After the coup, he was appointed as a high school professor at the Ottakringer Realgymnasium in the 16th district of Vienna and after a short time appointed the school director of this educational institution. Widmer ran this educational institute until his early retirement , which was due to his dissident attitude towards the Austro-fascist educational policy under Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss . Regardless of this, in July 1936, as a visible award for his versatile work, he was appointed court counselor by Federal President Wilhelm Miklas .

A few years after his retirement he fell ill with an incurable disease and died of this disease on October 16, 1941 in the hospital of the Barmherzigen Brüder in Graz. Georg Widmer found his final resting place on October 23, 1941 at the Hietzinger Friedhof in Vienna .

Club activities

During his student days, Widmer was a full member of the Graz Academic Section of the German and Austrian Alpine Association .

Also in his early years he, who represented German national views and was close to the Greater German People's Party, was an active member of the German School Association . Later he worked, together with his wife Therese, also for its successor organization, the German School Association Südmark.

Widmer had a special relationship with the “Association of Germans from Gottschee in Vienna”. This large country association, in which he was a member of the board for several years, supported him in his historical research and, in 1931, paid for the printing of his work Documentary Contributions to the History of the Gottscheer Ländchen .

Fonts

• Gottschee 1406-1627, Feudal Domain on the Frontier of Empire . Translation of: Documentary contributions to the history of the Gottscheerland 1406–1627 , translation by Andrew J. Witter, Gottscheer Heritage and Genealogy Association, 2001
• On the history of settlements and place names of the Tschermoschnitz parish . In: Gottscheer Calendar 1941 , year 21, Novi Sad, 1940
• A land register of the Tschermoschnitz parish . (Together with Josef Frank), In: Gottscheer Calendar 1941 , year 21, Novi Sad, 1940
• From the interrogation book of the Lordship of Gottschee (1597–1601) . In: Gottscheer Calendar 1941 , year 21, Novi Sad, 1940
• Contributions to Gottscheer's history . In: Gottscheer Calendar 1940 , year 20, Novi Sad, 1939
• Unpleasant neighborhood. A contribution to the robbery on the former Gottscheer border . In: Gottscheer Calendar 1939 , year 19, Novi Sad 1938
• Old Austrian maps as sources of Gottscheer history and regional studies . In: Gottscheer Calendar 1937 , year 17, Celje, 1936
• The value of the Gottschee rule in the second half of the 16th century . Part 2, In: Gottscheer Calendar 1936 , Volume 16, Celje, 1935
• The value of the Gottschee rule in the second half of the 16th century . Part 1, In: Gottscheer Calendar 1935 , Volume 15, Celje, 1934
• Building blocks for the history of the Gottscheerland . In: Gottscheer Calendar 1934 , Volume 14, Celje, 1933
• A dishonest nurse . In: Gottscheer Calendar 1933 , year 13, Celje, 1932
• Documentary contributions to the history of the Gottscheerland (1406–1627) . Series: Sources and studies on the knowledge of border and foreign Germanism , Volume 7, Verlag Günther Wolff, Plauen im Vogtland, 1930/1932

swell

• Ludwig Kren, u. A .: 650 years of Gottschee, Festbuch 1980 , published by Gottscheer Landsmannschaft, Klagenfurt, 1980
• Gottscheer Zeitung , No. 44, issue October 30, 1941
• Report of the Academic Section Graz of the DuÖ.A.-V. from 1896 to 1901 , Deutsche Verein-Druckerei, Graz, undated

Individual evidence

1. ^ Report of the Ak. Sek. Graz, p. 30f., Member status 1902