Karl Kraushaar (pedagogue)

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Karl Kraushaar , pseudonym Karl vd Heide and Fidelius Gotthelf (born May 24, 1858 in Hatzfeld , Austrian Empire , † March 8, 1938 in Budapest , Kingdom of Hungary ) was an Austrian educator , journalist , non-fiction author and banker .

Life

Karl Kraushaar attended the "Real- und Handelsschule Wiesner" in Temesvár from 1868 to 1872 and the teacher training college in Szeged from 1872 to 1876 . From 1876 to 1880 he worked as a cantor teacher in Ofszenica ( German  Offsenitz ), Párdány (German Pardan) and in Csávos (German Tschawosch), and then as a teacher at the trade and trade school (1881–1890) in Nagykikinda (German Großkikinda ). In Nagykikinda he was in charge of the weekly newspaper “Der Volksfreund” from 1889 to 1891.

From 1891 Karl Kraushaar worked in Temesvár. Here he headed the weekly “Der Landbote” (1897–1919), was secretary of the “Southern Hungarian Farmers' Association” (1891–1906), director of the “Southern Hungarian Agricultural Bank ” (1895–1908) and founder and director of the “Field leasing and parceling bank” (1906-1919).

After he retired in 1919, Kraushaar moved to Hinterbrühl near Vienna , then to Budapest. Between 1925 and 1928 he published the monthly magazine Our Home .

After 1893, Kraushaar introduced repeated lessons in the German villages of southern Hungary in order to compensate for the disadvantage of the Danube Swabian students as a result of the Magyarization . He was a co-founder of the Szegediner Knaben konvikt and obtained the concession to build the railway line between Zsombolya (German Hatzfeld) and Újarad (German Neu-Arad).

Works (selection)

  • Our king and our queen. Temesvar 1885.
  • Get wealth, not goods. Nagykikinda 1888.
  • Brief story of Maria Radna. Temesvar 1889.
  • The golden book of the farmer. Temesvar 1893.
  • Agricultural travel records from Germany. Temesvar 1898.
  • The life and work of a noble ruler on the throne. Temesvar 1908.
  • The German settlers in Hungary. Temesvar 1918.
  • History of the place of grace Maria Enzersdorf. Vienna 1922.
  • Brief history of the Banat and the German settlers. Vienna 1923.
  • Manners and customs of the Germans in Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia. Vienna 1932.

literature

Web links

  • books.google.hu , Brief history of the Banat and the German settlers, Vienna, bookstore of the publishing company "Herold", 1923.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Anton Peter Petri: Biographical Lexicon of the Banat Germans. Th. Breit Druck und Verlag GmbH, Marquartstein 1992, ISBN 3-922046-76-2 .
personal data
SURNAME Kraushaar, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heide, Karl vd (pseudonym); Gotthelf, Fidelius (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian educator, journalist, non-fiction author and banker
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Hatzfeld , Austrian Empire
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1938
Place of death Budapest , Kingdom of Hungary