Josef Brechensbauer

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Josef Brechensbauer (born November 3, 1867 in Komotau ; † September 9, 1945 in Teplice-Šanov ) was a Sudeten German pedagogue and local history researcher who did a great job promoting tourism in the Ore Mountains .

Life

Brechensbauer came from a middle-class Viennese family who had moved to the southern edge of the Bohemian Ore Mountains for professional reasons . After attending school in his hometown, he began his teaching career in 1886, and in 1913 he was promoted to senior teacher in Teplitz-Schönau .

From 1905 to 1920 he was the secretary of the Erzgebirgs-Zeitung , which was published in Teplitz-Schönau, and at the same time he was a freelance writer on local history for the Teplitz-Schönauer Anzeiger .

After the death of Professor Bruno Berlet , he worked on the 11th edition of the guide through the Ore Mountains, Northern Bohemia and Böhm together with the chairman of the press committee of the Erzgebirge Association , Paul Kabisch . Low mountain range .

He is considered to be one of the intellectual fathers of the ridge trail that runs along the Ore Mountains , the guide of which came from his pen and became the standard literature for Ore Mountain hikers until the end of the Second World War.

Due to his death in September 1945 at the age of 78, he was spared deportation from Czechoslovakia .

Works

  • Bruno Berlet : Signpost through the Ore Mountains, Northern Bohemia and Böhm. Mittelgebirge , 11th edition, edit. by P. Kabisch and Josef Brechensbauer, Annaberg 1908
  • From the past of the town of Töplitz-Schönau and its surroundings - a historical picture , 1912
  • Erzgebirgskammweg , Kaaden 1924
  • Josef Brechensbauer, Eduard Wagner (ed.): Commemorative publication of the Main Association of German Mountain and Hiking Associations in the Czechoslovak Republic, seat in Aussig on the occasion of its ten-year existence 1920–1930 , Teplitz-Schönau 1930.
  • Erzgebirgs-Kammweg-Führer , 3rd edition, Annaberg, 1932

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personal data
SURNAME Brechensbauer, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian teacher and local history researcher
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Komotau
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1945
Place of death Teplice-Šanov