Heinrich Kunnert

Heinrich Kunnert (born April 17, 1904 in Mödling ; † April 27, 1979 in Leoben ) was a librarian and archivist in Burgenland and Styria. Before his retirement, the Hofrat was the head of the cultural department of the Burgenland Provincial Government.

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Heinrich Kunnert, the son of a high school professor and classical philologist, attended the Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium Franz-Keim-Gasse in his hometown . It was there that his Eisenstadt-born history and geography teacher Viktor Jovanovic, who was an advocate of the connection between Burgenland and Austria, woke him up for his future profession. After graduating from high school , he studied history and geography as well as archival and library studies at the University of Vienna . He received his doctorate in 1927.

After a brief activity at the history seminar of the University of Vienna, he started as a clerk for library and archives in the cultural department of the Burgenland state government in 1928. At the time, the small archive holdings of the still young federal state were in a villa in Bad Sauerbrunn . Not until 1930 did he move to Eisenstadt when the new country house was completed . He reported on the ongoing positive development of the archive and the state library in the Burgenland magazine , quarterly journals for regional studies, heritage protection and monument preservation , which appeared until 1931, and from 1932 in the Burgenländische Heimatblätter magazine , where he was also part of the editorial staff. Politically, Kunnert belonged to the Greater German People's Party from 1923 to 1933 .

He was also extensively involved in the exhibition 10 Years Burgenland , as well as in the publication of the first Burgenland guide . Securing the archives of various rulers in Burgenland was also important. He was supported by his future successor, Karl Homma . In 1935/1936 he also created the central Jewish archive , which is still complete today.

After the Anschluss , he was able to prevent the Burgenland archive from being torn apart in the Reichsgaue Niederdonau and Styria by setting up a branch archive in Eisenstadt, which he continued to manage. He was district and main office manager for culture of the NSDAP and representative of the department "Border and Abroad". From 1943 he was also head of the Eisenstadt branch of the SS security service .

After the war he fled from the Red Army to the British occupation zone , where he first worked as a librarian in Schladming . Because of his work in the NSDAP he was tried in 1948, but was acquitted on most counts and only given a short prison term.

In 1950 he was given the task of building up the education department of the Chamber for Workers and Salaried Employees in Leoben for Upper Styria.

In 1958 he returned to his old job in Eisenstadt, where he became Wiklicher Hofrat and head of the cultural department in 1962 . He held this position until his retirement in 1967.

In his pension Leoben was his place of residence, where he dealt with the history of mining. 1972 became honorary professor at the Montan University Leoben .

He died on April 27, 1979 in Leoben.

Publications

• The Ennstal and its mountains with Ausseerland and Paltental (1949)

literature

• August Ernst: W. Hofrat Dr. Heinrich Kunnert 60 years. In: Burgenland homeland sheets . Year 26, Eisenstadt 1964, pp. 1–2, PDF on ZOBODAT
• Karl Semmelweis: Real Councilor i. R. Dr. Heinrich Kunnert (1904-1979). In: Burgenland homeland sheets. Year 41, Eisenstadt 1979, pp. 97–100 (obituary), PDF on ZOBODAT

Web links

• From the history of Schladming mining by Kunnert on Sagen.at
• Heinrich Kunnert in the estate directory of the ÖNB
• Photo, ÖNB picture archive

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Wolfgang Neugebauer, Peter Schwarz: The will to walk upright. Retrieved March 12, 2017.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Contemporary history: The red Nazi washing machine. In: Profile from January 15, 2005, accessed on March 12, 2017.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Dr. Heinrich Kunnert. In: Altlas Burgenland, accessed on March 12, 2017.