Karl Tekusch

Karl Tekusch (born July 7, 1890 in Vienna ; † December 28, 1977 there ) was an Austrian national soccer player and high school teacher for German and French.

Life

On July 7, 1890, Karl Tekusch was born as the son of Karl Tekusch (senior) and his wife Antonia, nee. Zapf, born in Vienna and baptized Catholic . He put in 1909 at the kk Staatsgymnasium in III. SCHICK the Matura from. From October 1909 to September 1910 he did a year of voluntary military service and in 1911 he completed a twenty-day weapons exercise. During this time his sporting career began (see below).

Tekusch studied German and Romance languages at the University of Vienna , where he also took a course from Erwin Mehl to train as a gymnastics teacher . In 1912 he received his doctorate in Vienna Dr. phil.

From August 1, 1914 to November 11, 1918, Karl Tekusch fought in World War I , as did his older brother Felix, who fell in Italy in May 1916 . One year after the end of the war, Karl Tekusch took part in the German education course in Vienna in 1919 . In 1923/24 this course gave Tekusch the motivation to found a working group, from which the Germanic Language Association, which he founded in 1933 and existed until 1948, emerged . This marked the beginning of his many years of activity as a language teacher (see below).

In February 1920 Tekusch took up a position as a grammar school teacher (for which the professional title professor is used in Austria ) for German and French at the Academic Gymnasium in Vienna . After the first organizational work for the establishment of the National Socialist Teachers' Union (NSLB) began in Austria in autumn 1930 , and before the NSLB's Vienna Gau was created in autumn 1932, Tekusch joined the NSLB on June 1, 1932 and received membership number 7590 After Austria's annexation to the German Reich , on June 1, 1938, Tekusch became an official member of the NSLB, Gau Wien, which had been illegal in Austria at that time. Tekusch was also a member of the NSDAP .

At the Second World War Tekusch did not participate, but submitted a request for deferment from military service because of indispensability in the military district headquarters Wien I, which was granted. His activity as a high school teacher ended with the Second World War: Because of his membership in the NSDAP, Tekusch was forced into retirement in 1945.

Karl Tekusch died without wealth on December 28, 1977 in a nursing home in Vienna, where he was buried on January 16, 1978.

Activity as a language tutor

Karl Tekusch dedicated at least 58 of his 87 years to language maintenance. From 1938 he was the last chairman of the Vienna branch of the General German Language Association , whose activities were severely restricted by leading National Socialists from 1940 . Tekusch was elected chairman on November 23, 1949 when the mother tongue association (Vienna) was founded. Tekusch held this position until 1954, when Erwin Mehl was elected chairman. Tekusch became deputy in 1954 and remained so until he had to resign from office for health reasons in 1976. In addition, Tekusch was the founder of the Germanic Language Association in Vienna and chairman of this association during its entire existence from 1933 to 1948. At this time Tekusch was in correspondence with Josef Weinheber .

Athletic career

Like his older brother Felix Tekusch, Karl Tekusch started in the middle school team led by Johann "Jan" Studnicka and then played for the Vienna AC . He himself played in the position of the left half, his brother as back. At the WAC he was soon part of what was probably the strongest Austrian team of the time, the climax was reached with the 2-1 victory over the then three-time English champions FC Sunderland on May 20, 1909. On November 1, 1908, Karl Tekusch had played for the Austrian national team for the first time against Hungary , and from 1910 he was usually called up together with brother Felix.

Disputes with the club management caused the Tekusch brothers, together with several other players, to found a new club with the WAF . Already in the first season 1911/12 of the new league championship of the ÖFV the new club took part. Meanwhile, Karl Tekusch and the national team were preparing for the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, but participation was prevented due to a dispute between the WAF and the ÖFV. Karl Tekusch had to pause in these games in order to be able to play again as a regular in the team.

Karl Tekusch achieved his greatest success at club level by winning the Austrian championship in 1913/14 with the WAF, until shortly after the First World War the midfielder remained active for the club and national team.

Sporting successes

• 1 × Austrian champion : 1914
• 3 × Austrian runner-up: 1913, 1915

• 15 international matches for the Austrian national soccer team from 1908 to 1918

Works (selection)

• (1914) Linguistic analysis of the old French 'Vie de Saint Remi' Poème de XIII siècle ed. WN Bolderston, London 1912 . Inaugural dissertation. University of Vienna.
• (1933). Memorandum of the Germanic Language Association on the German 'f' spelling . 1 sheet = 2 pages. Without counting. Vienna: Germanic Language Association. June 30th.
• (1934). Memorandum of the Germanic Language Association on the salvation of the inherited word, in particular on the use of the words body and body in official and legal usage . 1 sheet = 2 pages. Without counting. Vienna: Germanic Language Association. 20th of April.
• (1934). Memorandum on the renewal of the Indo-European word inflection, shown on the you words . 1 sheet = 2 pages. Without counting. Vienna: Germanic Language Association. November 11th.
• (1934). The linguistic authenticity . 1 sheet = 2 pages. Without counting. Vienna: Language Office Committee of the Association for the Maintenance of the German Language in Vienna.
• (1935). Memorandum on comparative Germanic and Indo-European language and folk culture . 1 sheet = 2 pages. Without counting. Vienna: Germanic Language Association. July 1.
• (1935). Examples of authenticity of language, authenticity of the people and authenticity of life. Dedication. To the German language association for its fiftieth birthday! 2 sheets = 4 pages. Without counting. Vienna: Germanic Language Association. Christmas = December 25th.
• (1935). The goals of linguistic authenticity . 1 sheet = 2 pages. Without counting. Vienna: Germanic Language Association.
• (1936). "Use of language and linguistic authenticity". In: Mother tongue 51/9. Pp. 321-327.
• (1937). Legal language maintenance. Götze's principles and conclusions in the light of linguistic authenticity . 2 sheets = 4 pages. Without counting. Vienna: Germanic Language Association. Pentecost = May 16.
• (1938). "Nordic language authenticity". In: Scientific supplements to the magazine of the German Language Association . Row 7. Issue 50. pp. 1–12.
• (1938). "From the German language: National Socialist language fighters". In: Volkszeitung am Sonntag . Vienna: March 27th. P. 103.
• (1938). Festschrift for the 49th birthday of the Führer and for the fifth return on the day the association was founded on the 44th birthday of the Führer, April 20, 1933 - April 20, 1938 . 2 sheets = 4 pages. Without counting. Vienna: Germanic Language Association. 20th of April.
• (1942). Memorandum on the mechanization of our organic mother tongue. To the Führer Adolf Hitler and to the Reich Minister of the Interior, Dr. Wilhelm Frick . 4 pages. Without counting. Vienna: Germanic Language Association. April 8th.
• (1975). "Is language just a 'means of communication' or a miracle?" In: Wiener Sprachblätter 25/5 & 6. Pp. 187-194.
• (1976). "Language authenticity in the Brockhaus". In: Wiener Sprachblätter 26/2. Pp. 45-46.

Secondary literature

• Mehl, Erwin (1960). "Professor Dr. Karl Tekusch, the champion for the authenticity of the language, to the seventies ”. In: Wiener Sprachblätter 10/3. Pp. 33-34.
• Mehl, Erwin (1978). "Prof. Dr. Karl Tekusch ”. Obituary. In: Wiener Sprachblätter 28/1. P. 1.
• Pfalzgraf, Falco (2016). Karl Tekusch as a language tutor. His role in Viennese language associations in the 20th century . Bremen: Hempen. (Greifswald contributions to linguistics 10.) ISBN 978-3-944312-33-0 .
• Pfalzgraf, Falco (2019). The 'Mutterssprache' Vienna association chaired by Karl Tekusch and Erwin Mehl (1949–1984) . Heidelberg: winter. ISBN 978-3-8253-6935-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Pfalzgraf, Falco (2016). Karl Tekusch as a language tutor. His role in Viennese language associations in the 20th century . Bremen: Hempen, 2016. p. 20 f.
2. ^ Mehl, Erwin (1960). "Professor Dr. Karl Tekusch, the champion for the authenticity of the language, to the seventies ”. In: Wiener Sprachblätter 10/3. Pp. 33-34.
3. ^ Tekusch, Karl (1976). "Language authenticity in the Brockhaus". In: Wiener Sprachblätter 26/2. Pp. 45-46.
4. ^ Pfalzgraf, Falco (2016). Karl Tekusch as a language tutor. His role in Viennese language associations in the 20th century . Bremen: Hempen, 2016. p. 28.
5. ^ Fuchs, Hans (1999). "50 years of the 'Mutterssprache' Vienna association". In: Wiener Sprachblätter 49/1. See p. 6. Online ( memento of the original from January 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ^ Wiener Sprachblätter (1976). "Club news". 26/2. P. 60.
7. ^ Pfalzgraf, Falco (2016). Karl Tekusch as a language tutor. His role in Viennese language associations in the 20th century . Bremen: Hempen, 2016. Chapter 3. pp. 12–33.