Hans Steiner (pedagogue)

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Hans Steiner (born June 12, 1921 in Irdning ; † December 18, 2008 in Graz ) was an Austrian politician and educator .

life and career

Hans Steiner was born on June 12, 1921 in Irdning , grew up in the Ennstal , where he attended elementary school, among other things. From 1933 he attended the collegiate high school in Admont , which in 1938 was converted into a "high school for boys". In 1941 he graduated from the Stiftsgymnasium and then began a trimester of Classical Philology and History at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Vienna . His studies were interrupted when he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in the summer of 1942 and served on the Eastern Front, where he was wounded twice. After the end of the Second World War , he continued his studies at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Graz , where in 1948 he passed the teaching examination in Latin, Greek and philosophy. In 1951 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. In Graz he also joined the Carolina student union , where he was given the couleur name Xandl . In the winter semester 1947/48 and in the summer semester 1948, at the 60th foundation festival, he was a senior . During his two senior years, he always endeavored to have a qualitative program, such as scientific evenings. Immediately after his teaching examination in 1948, Steiner became a grammar school teacher in Bruck / Mur and got into the Catholic Educational Center through contacts with the Salzburg University Weeks , the Catholic University Community and the Catholic Academic Association . In the same year he became head of the Catholic Education Center for the Bruck an der Mur district ; an office he held until 1967. At the same time, Hans Steiner also began studying at the Law and Political Science Faculty of the University of Graz and received his doctorate in 1958 with a Dr. iur. .

Due to his outstanding work for the Catholic Educational Organization, he was appointed head of the Educational Organization for the Graz-Seckau diocese in 1960 and held this position until 1982. In 1967 Steiner's appointment to the federal high school or federal high school in Mürzzuschlag took place. Three years later, he was appointed director of the Bundesgymnasium or Bundesrealgymnasium Bruck / Mur, but was appointed State School Inspector of Styria as early as 1973 and as such was responsible for the general secondary schools in the state. He held this position until his retirement at the end of 1986. In 1977 he was given the professional title of Hofrat . Due to his diverse engagement, Steiner got into politics, where he represented the ÖVP and in it the ÖAAB . In 1961, Steiner was provincial chairman of the Austrian Association of Academics ; a position he held for around five decades, until his death in 2008. In 1965 he became city party chairman of the ÖVP in Bruck / Mur, where he was also on the local council between 1960 and 1970 and for a while on the city council, as well as vice mayor. From 1970 to 1989 Steiner was again ÖAAB main district chairman for Bruck / Mur and also from 1973 to 1989 ÖVP main district chairman, after he was the city party chairman of the ÖVP in Bruck / Mur until 1973.

The now 60-year-old came relatively late in the autumn of 1981 as a member of the Styrian state parliament , where he represented the ÖVP in the X. and XI. Legislative period from October 21, 1981 to October 18, 1991. After he retired, Steiner was chairman of the internationally renowned Ennstaler Kreis discussion forum between 1988 and 1989 and 2006, respectively . During his early days there, the former editor-in-chief and co-editor of the German weekend newspaper Die Zeit , Marion Gräfin Dönhoff , and the German historian Wolfgang Leonhard gave lectures on the reorganization of Europe in 1989/90. In June 2007 Steiner was awarded the Great Gold Medal of Honor of the State of Styria with the star by Governor Franz Voves . After his wife passed away, Hans Steiner's health deteriorated rapidly and succumbed to it on December 18, 2008.

Steiner was regarded as a “restless, combative spirit” and for over 40 years as the engine of Catholic adult education in Styria. He was also seen as a conservative who was brave and open-minded about talking to people who thought differently. Through his work in the Catholic Education Center of the Graz-Seckau diocese, he was able to bring various important personalities to Graz, such as Julius Döpfner , Reinhold Schneider , Carl Zuckmayer Werner Bergengruen , Karl Rahner or Hans Urs von Balthasar . Furthermore, he was a co-architect of the so-called “Styrian climate” under the provincial governors Josef Krainer senior , Friedrich Niederl and Josef Krainer junior .

The MKV student association K.St.V. He belonged to Stubenberg Bruck / Mur as an original philistine . Since, as already mentioned, he was an original philistine in this connection and therefore could no longer be in any further connection, he joined the K.Ö.St.V. Markomannia Eppenstein Graz to the Bandphilister in appearance.

literature

  • Gerhard Hartmann (Baj): Proven in yesterday. Ready today. 100 years of Carolina. On the history of Union Catholicism. Published by Maximilian Liebmann on behalf of the old gentlemen's association of the K. Ö. HV Carolina (= Graz contributions to the history of theology and church contemporary history) Volume 2 . Graz 1988, p. 424, 456, 510, 528-530, 534, 538 and 554 .
  • Gerhard Hartmann and Markus Simmerstatter: A great walk hand in hand. 125 years Carolina 1888 to 2013 . Graz 2013, p. 351 f .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Groß Gold mit Stern" to renowned Styrians , accessed on October 9, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Steiner, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician and educator
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Irdning , Austria
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 2008
Place of death Graz , Austria