Ignaz Zangerle

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Grave of Ignaz Zangerle in the New Mühlau Cemetery, Innsbruck

Ignaz Zangerle (born January 2, 1905 in Wängle , † July 5, 1987 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian adult educator.

Life

Ignaz Zangerle was born in Tyrol as the son of a father from the Paznaun and a mother from the Lechtal . Zangerle spent his youth in Viehdorf near Amstetten in the Mostviertel in Lower Austria . He attended the Stiftsgymnasium Seitenstetten of the Benedictines. There he joined the Neuland Federation , where he was the leader of the Nibelungengau for five higher schools. After graduating from high school, Franz König succeeded him in this position. During his high school days he got to know the magazine Der Brenner , which had a strong influence on his further life.

Zangerle enrolled in history, geography and German studies in 1925 and took scholastic philosophy at the theological faculty of the University of Innsbruck . In 1934 he did his doctorate with a folklore thesis entitled The Development of the Settlement and Ownership in the Unterpaznaun under Hermann Wopfner . At the beginning of his studies he met Ludwig von Ficker for the first time , with whom he had already been in contact by letters. This connection lasted until the death of the Brenner publisher in 1967. In October 1925, Ficker asked him to attend the funeral of Georg Trakl , whose remains had been reburied from the Krakow Rakowicki Cemetery to the Mühlauer Friedhof near Innsbruck at the instigation of Fickers . Zangerle also founded the Catholic University Youth of Austria (predecessor organization) in Innsbruck with Provost Josef Weingartner and attended conferences at St. Petersberg Castle , where he met the painter Max Weiler .

After studying with no prospect of a job, he taught 90 young unemployed people all week every day at the Chamber of Labor in Innsbruck with ten other academically trained unemployed . He then became an education officer at the Innsbruck Chamber of Labor. When Austria was annexed to Hitler's Germany, he was dismissed and was unemployed for nine months. He then found work as a career advisor at the employment office in Innsbruck, later in Vienna and finally in Linz. From the Linz employment office, he spent a day in Mauthausen concentration camp in his role as a career counselor . Every two weeks he drove from Linz to Vienna and met with friends, among others. a. with Otto Mauer , Karl Strobl and Friedrich Heer . At these meetings, the restructuring of society and church after the end of National Socialist rule, which was already foreseeable due to the war situation, was discussed.

After the war, Zangerle returned to Innsbruck and founded the Catholic Education Center . He was advised monthly by the theologian Karl Rahner . He was also co-editor of the Brenner Studies and the Trakl Studies. He was the federal adult educator for Tyrol and chairman of the European Association of Catholic Adult Education. At the educational science institute of the University of Innsbruck received a teaching position.

In 1932 he married Anna Gerda Frühmann and had four children with her. He often visited the Café Central in Innsbruck, where he could write best. His grave is in the Innsbruck-Mühlau cemetery .

Awards

Publications

  • Development of the settlement and the ownership structure in Unterpaznaun. Diss. University of Innsbruck, Social Science Working Group, Innsbruck 1934.
  • The destiny of the poet. One try. Herder, Freiburg 1949.
  • On the situation of the church. Articles 1933–1963. Leprosy collection, O. Müller, Salzburg 1963.
  • Plea for Austria. New popular education, Vienna 1968.
  • On the way to a Christian adult education. Müller, Salzburg 1987, ISBN 3-7013-0729-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ignaz Zangerle: My time in the rearview mirror. In: The window. Tiroler Kulturzeitschrift, issue 41, pp. 4046-4051.
personal data
SURNAME Zangerle, Ignaz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian adult educator
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Wangle
DATE OF DEATH 5th July 1987
Place of death innsbruck