Karl Beichl

Karl Beichl (born September 14, 1874 in Vienna ; † February 18, 1937 there ) was an Austrian dowser .

Life

Karl Beichl attended the pioneer cadet school and then became a military civil engineer and finally a colonel . He was regarded as an excellent dowser , so that during the First World War he was able to secure the drinking water supply for the troops in the Karst with his hydrotechnical investigations . This success prompted the government of the allied Ottoman Empire to have him search for water in Turkey as well.

As a private citizen after the First World War, he continued to work as a dowser. He looked for water in Austria, Italy, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Switzerland. There were also invitations from Spain and Asia Minor: One of his greatest successes in peacetime was the discovery of a water vein that ensured the drinking water supply of Trieste .

Thanks to his many years of experience, he was able to differentiate between water and up to 70 minerals by the movement of the rod. For health reasons, he had to refuse an order from America to carry out investigations into a gold deposit.

In the last years of his life he dealt with earth rays . In 1934 he succeeded in recording these rays on photographic plates and thus providing evidence of their existence. Before his death, which prevented the completion of a book on earth rays, his thesis of the pathological effects of these rays was confirmed at the Graz Pathological Institute.

Karl Beichl was buried on February 22, 1937 in the Hernals cemetery .

Honors

• During the First World War he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order with Swords for his achievements as a dowser .
• In 1988 Beichlgasse in Vienna- Favoriten was named after him.

meaning

Karl Beichl is considered an important radiesthetist . Among other things, he created a thermal bath map of Vienna, for which the street was named after him in 1988.

literature

• Beichl Karl. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 65.
• Felix Czeike (Ed.): Beichl Karl. In:  Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 1, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-218-00543-4 , p. 309 ( digitized version ).
• Colonel d. R. Ing.Karl Beichl † in Neue Freie Presse from February 21, 1937
• Colonel Ing.Karl Beichl died in Reichspost on February 20, 1937
• The master of the dowsers died in Das kleine Blatt on February 24, 1937

Web links

• Entry on Karl Beichl in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )