Helmuth Resch

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Helmuth Josef Resch , often also written to Helmut Resch , (born May 22, 1933 in Vienna ) is a former Austrian fencer , as well as wood researcher and university lecturer in Austria and the United States and long-standing director of the Institute for Wood Research at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna ( BOKU).

life and career

Career in sport

Helmuth Resch was born on May 22, 1933 in the Austrian capital Vienna. He started fencing in his youth and appeared for the renowned Union Fechtclub Wien (UFC), the oldest fencing club in Vienna. In 1955 Resch was the first Austrian master in the men's sword , in 1956 and 1959 he was able to repeat these successes and in 1960 he also became national champion in the saber . At the fencing tournament of the Olympic Summer Games in Rome in 1960 alone , the UFC provided six Olympic participants with Traudl Ebert , Helga Gnauer and Dieta Kastner for the women, as well as Paul Kerb , Hubert Loisel (as coach) and Helmuth Resch. At the tournament, Resch came into the next round in singles with the saber after two wins in the preliminary round. There he won two of the four fights and lost the other two. In the following round, which also consisted of four fights, he was only successful in one, Resch lost the other three and was eliminated from the current tournament. In the team standings he didn't get too far with the Austrians either. He continued his career as a fencer into old age and still appeared regularly at small European tournaments of his age group or was also used as a fencer in the United States.

Career in science

After studying forestry at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna , Resch completed a wood science education in the United States. Here he also worked from 1962 to 1970 at the University of California, Berkeley and then from 1970 to 1987 at the Department of Forest Products , of which he was also head, at Oregon State University in Corvallis , Oregon . From 1987 to 1992 he was Dean of the College of Environmental Science and Forestry at the State University of New York . In addition, he was the President of the Society of Wood Science and Technology in 1980 and held various other professional activities. After three decades in the United States, he returned to Austria in 1992, where, following the retirement of Friedrich Wassipaul , he was appointed professor and head of the Institute for Wood Research at his alma mater , which is now the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna. He worked as such until his own retirement in 2001. At the same time, he also headed the Austrian Wood Research Institute from 1992 to 1996, now known as Holzforschung Austria .

He was supported by his partner Heide, who died in 2004. Resch now spends his retirement alternately in Austria and in the United States, where his two sons Martin and Michael still live with their families. In 2012, Resch was mainly in the media in Oregon because, after he moved from Oregon in 1987, he retired from the Oregon Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) from his retirement on December 1, 1999. and received 349% of his last annual salary in Oregon annually.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Oregon losing Money Match game in Public Employees Retirement System fund , accessed January 13, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Resch, Helmuth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Resch, Helmuth Josef (full name); Resch, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian fencer, wood researcher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria