Hans Heppenheimer

Hans Heppenheimer (born October 1, 1901 in Tautendorf ; † September 20, 1990 in Gars am Kamp ) was a local researcher from Lower Austria .

Johann Heppenheimer worked professionally as a teacher, most recently as a high school supervisor. For his services to popular education, the municipality of Rohrendorf bei Krems , where he worked for the longest time, named a street after him during his lifetime. He spent the retirement years with his family near his place of birth in Gars am Kamp.

Heppenheimer has researched the places of his life and work and thus created and published local customers for the communities Rohrendorf, Theiss and Gars am Kamp. For the latter community he was particularly active from the end of the 1960s and determined cultural events for decades. His outstanding achievements were the restoration of the Babenbergerresisdenz, the erection of the Franz von Soup memorial and, above all, the redesign of the Garser Heimatmuseum .

His almost unmistakable literary activity was always pedagogical, as documented, for example, by the countless contributions for the Garser Kulturbrief that have appeared from 1968 for around three decades. Like all good local history researchers, he considered history from its beginnings and also documented the events of the present.

Heppenheimer was an advisory board member of the Waldviertel Heimatbund and chairman of the local research group in the Lower Austrian education and homeland organization. In 1981 he was appointed professor.

Works (selection)

• Tisza. A home book , 1933.
• A short historical foray through Rohrendorf's past , Das Waldviertel 2, 1953, pp. 205ff.
• Viticulture and wine customs in Rohrendorf , Das Waldviertel 15, 1966, p. 10ff.
• Die Zech der Leinweber or All Saints Brotherhood in Gars , Das Waldviertel 17, 1968, p. 93ff.
• Gars am Kamp. Little Guide , 1969.
• The Baderstube in Gars , Das Waldviertel 23, 1974, p. 173ff.
• The foundation of Burg Gars , Das Waldviertel 26, 1977, p. 107f.
• The fortifications in the Gars area , Das Waldviertel 32, 1983, p. 229ff.
• Two contributions to the local history of the Waldviertel , Mannus Library XXVII, 1987, p. 691ff.

literature

• Rudolf Stögmüller, Prof. Hans Heppenheimer 80 , Das Waldviertel 30, 1981, p. 315.
• Hermann Maurer, Prof. Hans Heppenheimer (1901-1990) , bulletin of the Society for Pre- and Early History 21, 1990, p. 45f.