Karl Hilscher

Karl Hilscher

Karl Hilscher: Vienna's 12th district Meidling. Vienna 1923

Karl Hilscher (born September 4, 1873 in Vienna ; † May 25, 1936 ibid) was an Austrian local historian, educator and musician. He founded the Meidlinger Heimatmuseum and made a contribution to the historiography of this district.

life and work

Karl Hilscher attended the teacher training institute and then worked at various special schools. Most recently he was a school councilor and director of such a school in Währing . He wrote some works on the history of special schools and was one of the employees of the social democratic school reformer Otto Glöckel .

Hilscher came to local history through his educational work. His main merit lies in this area. After Hilscher had already written numerous works on the history of the 12th Viennese district Meidling , the Meidlinger Heimatmuseum was founded in 1923 , the first such museum in Vienna. Hilscher and some like-minded people (including Otto Glöckel) founded the Central Committee for Local Research, which had set itself the task of collecting and researching objects relating to local history. The first exhibition of the Central Committee took place in 1923 in the school building on Singrienergasse. That was the hour of birth of the Meidlinger Heimatmuseum, which Hilscher also ran until his death. With the support of the then Meidlinger district chairman Alois Zanaschka , the museum found a permanent location in the same year at Bischoffgasse 10, where it remained until 1955.

In 1930 Hilscher published the extensive Meidling manual . The 12th Viennese district in the past and present , which set the trend for the history of the district.

In addition to his historiographical work, Hilscher was also active as a composer, singer and choir director. He learned composition from Rudolf Bibl and Ferdinand Rebay . For many years Hilscher led the Wilhelmsdorfer male choir Flora and at the same time the Meidlinger Liedertafel , from 1905 to 1913 he chaired the Hetzendorfer Sangesfreunde . Most of his songs and choral compositions were sung: I know a little flower, lovely and light , evening song , Ach Scheiden , Die Lore am Tore , An dem Brünnele , Zum Rhein , Die Hochzeit , Mein Mädel and German Danube Song .

After his death he was buried in the Meidlinger Friedhof . In 1949 Hilschergasse in Vienna-Meidling was named after the local researcher. A memorial plaque was attached to the house where he died at 5 Zenogasse.

Fonts

• Johann Traugott way. One of the first auxiliary school teachers
• Which schoolchildren are to be assigned to the auxiliary schools voluntarily set up by the municipality of Vienna for children with limited ability?
• Historical news from the XII. Districts . Gorischek, Vienna 1900–05
• History of the Theresienbad in Vienna XII . Vienna 1902
• The Gatterhölzl in the 12th district and its historical monuments . Vienna 1905
• From viticulture in old Vienna . 1907
• The 12th district in Roman times and the origin of its name . Vienna 1910
• The thought pillars "Spinner on the Cross". Study . Rauch, Vienna 1915
• The Theresienbad in the 12th district in the present . Vienna 1915
• Meidlinger pillars of thought . Vienna 1915
• Kaspar Hauser. Lie or crime? Hofmann, Vienna 1915
• Two local legends from Meidling. Retold and explained . Vienna 1916
• Dr. Karl Haller, a pioneer in welfare for the mentally ill in Austria . 1916
• Professor Dr. Josef Knolz, a pioneer in welfare for the mentally ill in Austria . Buller, Vienna 1917
• A vanished forest in Vienna and historical memorials of its soil and its immediate surroundings. A historical study . Vienna 1917
• History of the parish and church of St. Johann von Nepomuk in Vienna's 12th district, Meidling . Vienna 1917
• Hetzendorf. A history of the former suburb and current part of the 12th district of Vienna and its imperial palace . Vienna 1918
• Vienna's 12th district of Meidling. Illustrated for school and home . Jugend & Volk, Vienna 1923
• Schönbrunn Palace and Park in Vienna. Historical-topographical guide . Gerlach & Wiedling, Vienna 1924 (together with August Eigner)
• Festschrift for the unveiling ceremony of the Meidling artist memorial stone in Theresienbadpark . Central Committee for Local History Research, Vienna 1926
• Festschrift for the unveiling of the memorial plaque for the clay poet Josef Reiter at House XII . Hetzendorfer Strasse 89. Central Committee for Local History Research, Vienna 1927
• Meidling. The 12th district of Vienna in the past and present . Austrian publishing and sales company, Vienna 1930
• Events of the revolutionary year of 1848 in the former suburbs and their surroundings, which were combined to form today's 12th Viennese districts . Central Committee for Local History Research, Vienna 1930
• History of care for the feeble-minded, education for the feeble-minded, and auxiliary school . Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1930
• The Pfann'sche Mineralbad in Vienna XII. The only mineral spring in Vienna . Vienna 1931
• The traffic routes of the 12th district of Vienna and the explanation of their names . Central Committee for Local History Research, Vienna 1931
• Catalog of the Meidlinger Heimatmuseum . Central Committee for Local History Research, Vienna 1932
• A brief history of the parish church of St. Oswald in Altmannsdorf Vienna XII . Volkslesehalle, Vienna 1933
• Festschrift for the unveiling of a memorial plaque for the clay poet Professor Edmund Reim at the house where he died, XII, Schönbrunner Strasse 230 . Central Committee for Local History Research, Vienna 1933

literature

• Felix Czeike: Historical Lexicon Vienna Vol. 3 . Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1994
• Hilscher Karl. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 319.