Hertha Schober-Awecker

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Hertha Schober-Awecker (born August 18, 1922 in Salzburg ; † 1989 ) was an Austrian historian who published mainly on the settlement and social history of Upper Austria .

Life

She came to Linz as a child , attended elementary and middle school there and then studied in Graz , interrupted by military service and imprisonment. While working on her dissertation entitled Abolition of the Mondsee Monastery , she came into contact with the Upper Austrian State Archives and its scientists and met her future husband, the local researcher Friedrich Schober , whom she married in 1960.

Her work at the cultural office of the City of Linz from 1950 to 1960 included working on the great Linz Regestenwerk, which was published in 1964 as Linzer Regesta and Handwritten Sources on the History of the City of Linz in Upper Austrian archives .

In 1961 she joined the Mühlviertler Künstlergilde , ran the business from 1962 to 1968 and worked on the editorial team and as an author for the Mühlviertler Heimatblatt , and was finally president of the artists' association from 1968 to 1972.

Fonts

As a historian, Schober-Awecker focused on settlement, economic and social history and published articles partly in newspapers, partly in periodicals such as in the year books of the city of Linz, in the Upper Austrian homeland papers , in the Mühlviertel homeland papers . Her first independent book was published in 1952 about Mondsee .

Selected publications:

  • The fire in Linz in 1800. In: Yearbook of the City of Linz 1951. Linz 1952, pp. 26–40, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  • Mondsee - market, monastery, country. Drawings by Friedrich Schober. Mondsee 1952, 208 pages.
  • The Bruckamt of the City of Linz. In: Yearbook of the City of Linz 1953. Linz 1954, pp. 167–214, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  • The Nonnberg Office "enhalb der Donau". In: Yearbook of the City of Linz 1952. Linz 1953, pp. 345–380, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  • History of the Lasberg market and its surroundings. Folklore contribution by Karl Radler. Lasberg 1954. 232 pages.
  • Grein during the French Wars. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets. Volume 9, Linz 1955, pp. 147–158, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  • with Friedrich Schober, Benno Ulm : Freistadt , the romantic city in the Mühlviertel, and its surroundings. Freistadt 1955, 80 pages.
  • The Linz city scales. The history of the Waag- und Niederlagamt of the City of Linz (= special publication of the Linz Culture Office). Linz 1958, 187 pages.
  • The Mondsee-Wildeneck rule . In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets. Year 13, Linz 1959, pp. 355–381, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  • Holzheim. In: Historisches Jahrbuch der Stadt Linz 1967. Linz 1968, pp. 153–248, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Rudolf Pfann: Hertha Schober-Awecker. In: Mühlviertler Heimatblätter. Year 7, Linz 1967, issue 1/2, p. 2 f, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
personal data
SURNAME Schober-Awecker, Hertha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Awecker, Hertha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg
DATE OF DEATH 1989