Leopold Langhammer

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Leopold Langhammer (born September 7, 1891 in Vienna ; † June 5, 1975 there ) was a public educator, concentration camp prisoner and played a key role in rebuilding the adult education centers in Vienna.

Live and act

Langhammer studied German and philosophy at the University of Vienna . In 1916 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. Between 1918 and 1938 he was secretary of the Vienna People's Education Association and publishing secretary. In the interwar period, Langhammer was also head of advertising for the Vienna State Organization of the Fatherland Front , the successor organization to the Christian Social Party founded by Engelbert Dollfuss in 1933 . As the head of the adult education center in Leopoldstadt, he became a sponsor of Jean Améry , whom Langhammer called his “mentor” decades later. After the Second World War, Langhammer tried to bring Jean Améry back to Austria with positive reports, but Améry could not make up her mind.

After the " connection " Austria to the Nazi state of "was Aryans " Langhammer in the 1938/39 Buchenwald concentration camp internment. He was suspended from his role in popular education during the Nazi era until 1945. Memories of this time are contained in Langhammer's lyrical work “The Chants of the Little People” (1946) or the “Buchenwald Song” (1959).

From 1945 to 1948 he was the main consultant for public education in the City of Vienna. He was also responsible for denazification issues. In 1946/47 Leopold Langhammer founded the association “ Artistic Adult Education Center ” together with Karl Lugmayer and Gerda Matejka-Felden ; Here, so-called master classes were offered for talented people, which should then enable applicants to train at the art academy . Between 1945 and 1961 Langhammer taught literature and music history, philosophy and education at the Vienna Conservatory and the Academy of Fine Arts . Most recently he was the main speaker at the Vienna Adult Education Centers. Langhammer had been a member of the Vienna Concentration Camp Association as a member of the presidium since 1948 .

Honorary grave at the urn grove of the Simmering fire hall

Leopold Langhammer was buried in an honorary grave in the cemetery of the Simmering fire hall (Dept. E16, No. 377).

Awards / honors

literature

selected Writings

  • Leopold Langhammer (Red.): The legislation in Austria . The program of the VF newsletter of the Fatherland Front. Vienna. No. 1. Vienna, April 1935.
  • Leopold Langhammer (Red.): On May 1st . Patriotic front. Bulletin of the Fatherland Front, Vienna. No. 2. Vienna, May 1935.
  • Leopold Langhammer: The songs of the little people . Titan Verlag, Vienna: 1946.
  • Leopold Langhammer: The Buchenwaldlied - three dramatic scenes. Publishing house of the Federal Association of Resistance Fighters and Victims of Fascism, Vienna: 1959.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert Kriechbaumer (Ed.): Austria! and Front Heil! (=  Series of publications by the Research Institute for Political-Historical Studies of the Dr. Wilfried Haslauer Library, Salzburg . Volume 23 ). Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2005, ISBN 3-205-77324-1 , p. 112 .
  2. ↑ Irene Heidelberger-Leonard, 2005, p. 30.
  3. ^ The Buchenwaldlied - three dramatic scenes ( Memento from December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). In: christenundjuden.org .
  4. ↑ Christian H. Stifter: "Longing for knowledge and for spirituality". Hermann Broch and the science-centered popular education in Vienna. In: adulteducation.at . Association of Austrian Adult Education Centers, accessed on June 7, 2020.
  5. ^ Leopold Langhammer in the Austrian music dictionary.
  6. ^ W. Weinert: Concentration Camp Association Vienna. In: kz-verband-wien.at. Retrieved June 7, 2020.
  7. ↑ Hedwig Abraham: Prof. Dr. Leopold Langhammer public educator, 1891–1975. In: viennatouristguide.at . Retrieved June 7, 2020.
  8. ↑ Honorary graves in the fire hall Simmering cemetery. (PDF; 89 kB) In: friedhoefewien.at . November 2016, accessed June 7, 2020.
  9. ↑ For service to the Patriotic Front. In:  Salzburger Chronik. Tagblatt with the illustrated supplement “Austrian Week” , December 30, 1936, p. 7 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / sch
  10. ^ Prize of the City of Vienna: People's Education (1947 - now). In: geschichtewiki.wien.gv.at . May 28, 2020, accessed June 7, 2020.

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personal data
SURNAME Langhammer, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian public educator
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 5th June 1975
Place of death Vienna