Lothar Machura

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Lothar Machura (born December 13, 1909 in Jägerndorf , Silesia, † May 23, 1982 in Vienna ) was an Austrian museum curator . Together with Curt Fossel, he is considered the spiritual father of the nature park movement in Austria.

Live and act

Machura attended the teacher training college in Vienna III. , where he passed the final exam on June 24, 1929 . On March 8, 1932, he passed the supplementary high school diploma for secondary schools at the Bundesrealgymnasium in Vienna II , then enrolled in philosophy at the University of Vienna, and on November 9, 1935, based on the dissertation on ecological studies in the Salzlackengebiet of the Neusiedlersee, with special consideration of the halophiles Coleopter and rhynchote species and their geographical distribution to the Dr. phil. PhD . He also passed the teaching qualification test for general elementary schools on December 9, 1936.

Machura worked at the Lower Austrian State Museum in Vienna from 1935 to 1970 . There he last headed the natural science department of the house. Go to him numerous start-ups by museums back as the Danube Museum in Schloss Orth , the Hunt Museum in Marchegg and Geologogischen outdoor museum Blockheide in Gmund . Machura's main concern has always been to make the nature of Lower Austria accessible to the city dwellers of Vienna.

Throughout his life he also campaigned for the preservation of nature and the protection of the landscape. In 1949, together with Gustav Wendelberger , he founded the Institute for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management (INL) and later became a nature conservation officer for the Lower Austrian provincial government. In the 1960s he played a key role in setting up the first six nature parks in Austria .

Works (selection)

  • Pictures of life from Niederdonau. A cross-section through the natural history of our Gau . Kühne, Vienna (among others) 1943, OBV .
  • -, Karl Dopler: Hunting and nature conservation . Österreichischer Naturschutzbund, Vienna 1954, ONB .
  • Advertising and landscape protection . Austrian Nature Conservation Union, Vienna 1955, OBV .
  • Homeland Gutenstein. Hike through a historical landscape . Verlag Kunst ins Volk, Vienna 1955, OBV .
  • To Austrian national parks. Alpine National Park Hohe Tauern, Steppe National Park Neusiedler See . Austrian Nature Conservation Union, Vienna 1959, OBV .
  • The Neusiedler See. A gem of Austria. Introduction to landscape and nature as well as a short guide through the lake museum in Neusiedl . Touristik-Verlag, Vienna 1960, OBV .
  • Rupert Feuchtmüller , Lothar Machura, Fritz Weber : Lower Austria. Landscape, history, culture . Lower Austrian Press House, St. Pölten / Vienna (among others) 1961, OBV .
  • Nature, nature conservation and landscape management in Lower Austria. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Austrian Nature Conservation Union, which was celebrated from October 4th to 7th, 1963 in Reichenau, Rax, the Lower Austria Regional Group of the ÖNB with the support of the N.-Ö. Provincial government issued . Schwarcz, Vienna 1963, OBV .
  • The Danube and the Danube Museum in Petronell Castle, Lower Austria. A text and picture sequence to understand the Austrian Danube landscape and a museum dedicated to it . Exhibition catalog. Office of the Lower Austrian Provincial Government (Department III / 2 - Culture Department), Vienna 1964, OBV .
  • Nature parks in Austria. Recreational landscapes in the heart of Europe . Austrian Nature Conservation Association, Vienna 1966, OBV .
  • Laxenburg - a nature park near Vienna. A representation of the past and the present with numerous pictures and an orientation plan . Sensen-Verlag, Vienna 1966, OBV .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ OBV .
personal data
SURNAME Machura, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian museum curator and conservationist
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Hunter village
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1982
Place of death Vienna