Ludwig Pasch

Ludwig "Wickerl" Pasch (born February 26, 1919 in Ried im Innkreis ; † May 9, 2015 ibid) was an Austrian secondary school teacher and director, author, and founder and director of the Innviertel School Sparrows . Because of his work, he was considered an Austrian cultural ambassador.

Life

Ludwig Pasch was born as one of 13 children of a master hairdresser and attended the k. k. Real and high school in Ried. As a pupil of the poor, Ludwig Pasch experienced first hand the coping with hardship, fear and hatred in the people of his homeland. After graduation, he initially made military service in the army after the invasion of the German Wehrmacht , he was, at that time as a firm typist in the Austrian Commercial Federation and as the leader of "Jung-Vaterland" the Fatherland Front  (VF) in Ried worked, in March 1938, when Adolf Hitler traveled to Vienna on his victorious journey via Braunau, Ried and Linz, taken into so-called “ protective custody ”. In the war days of 1941 he married Lilli Mayer, a Ried merchant's daughter. They had two daughters. At the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the Soviets. In the 1960s, he studied at the University of Salzburg , philosophy , social psychology, sociology and folklore. For his dissertation on cultural history and popular changes in the Ried im Innkreis district , he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. Pasch worked for many years as a teacher or director at the public secondary school in Ried.

Musical work

Pasch played dulcimer , violin , guitar and flute .

Singing and dance group "Jung-Innviertel"

In 1945 he founded a community of musicians and dancing people from the Innviertel . With this singing and dance group called "Jung-Innviertel" he accompanied a color photo lecture on December 12, 1959 about the Vienna Whitsun days in 1959 in the district office of Ried i. I. the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft in Austria  (SLÖ) with songs and dances from Austria and the Sudetenland .

"Innviertler Schulspatzen"

With the establishment of the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Volkskultur” ( Working Group for Folk Culture) in the Upper Austrian Volksbildungswerk (OÖ Volksbildungswerk) in 1952, he also founded the “Innviertler Schulspatzen” ensemble. With the Innviertler Schulspatzen he also performed in other European countries and in turn brought folk music and folk dance groups to his hometown.

In the mid-1950s he founded the “Rieder Dreikönigsritt” or the Rieder Dreikönigssingen in Ried . Since it was founded in 1952, the school sparrows have also taken part in the European Costume Week in Neustadt in Holstein several times : 1952, 1954, 1957, 1962, 1969, 1975, 1978 and 1985. In 1978, the Board of Trustees appointed Pasch to head the organization for this concert event. The Austrian folk song fair composed by him was performed at the festive service to mark the opening of this European meeting .

For the 10th anniversary of the local history researcher Ernst Burgstaller paid tribute to the Innviertler Schulspatzen with an essay. On the occasion of the series of events “ Europe in song and dance ” held in Ried from June 21 to 24, 1962, a special postmark was used in the Ried im Innkreis district by the “prospective post office of the Innviertler Schulspatzen” (organizer). Among other things, from 1975 Pasch accompanied the harvest festival in the Rieder parish church with his school sparrows .

Works

Compositions:

• A little song sounds for you . Score. Contains the song groups: Austrian folk song fair , religious songs , evening with Richard Billinger , trip with Franz Schubert , home - a song for you sounds , a little song sounds for you , we sing and are happy , journey through the Innviertel , greetings from Europe . For various choir and instrumental line-ups. Upper Austrian Provincial Publishing House , 1980 OCLC 724752333 . The song collection is included in Arnold Blöchl, Annemarie Gschwantler: Corpus musicae popularis Austriacae : Folk music in Upper Austria. Böhlau Verlag , 2001

Publications:

• Cultural, historical and popular changes in the district of Ried im Innkreis. [zugl. Diss. And Volume 19 of the series of publications of the Upper Austrian Volksbildungswerk ]; Landesverlag, Salzburg 1967. OCLC 1072340646
• Homeland. In the midst of the human. Moserbauer Druck & Verlag, 2001. ISBN 978-3-900-84771-5
• Our monastery school. 150 years of educational work by the Franciscan Sisters in Ried im Innkreis. Chronicle of the Franziskusschule Ried, Ried i. I. 2012.
• The forest cemetery of the city of Ried. Ried i. I. 2013.

Honors

• Decoration of honor of the city of Ried
• 1963 Awarded the title “ Consultant for Popular Education and Homeland Care ”.
• 1968: Stelzhamer badge
• 1972: Silver Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria
• 2002: Golden Merit Badge of the Province of Upper Austria
• 2008: “Signum Laudis in Gold” by the Upper Austrian Volksbildungswerk; presented by Angela Orthner , President of the Upper Austrian Parliament
• 2015: "Prof. Hans Samhaber-Plakette "from the Upper Austrian Forum for Folk Culture

Web links

• Literature by and about Ludwig Pasch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Sound carriers of the Innviertler Schulspatzen in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ High distinction for a great philanthropist - "Spatzenvater" Pasch. In: Tips , September 9, 2008, p. 3. ( PDF )
2. ↑ Annual report of the KK Real- und Obergymnasium in Ried. At the end of the school year 1936/37. Federal high school in Ried im Innkreis, 1937, p. 10.
3. ↑ Gottfried Gansinger: National Socialism in the Ried im Innkreis district. Resistance and persecution 1938–1945. … StudienVerlag , 2016, pp. 42, 43, fn. 72. ISBN 978-3-706-55856-3
4. ^ Chronicle book "Our monastery school - 150 years of educational work of the Franciscan nuns in Ried im Innkreis". New middle school Ried of the Franciscan Sisters of Vöcklabruck , school year 2012/13.
5. ↑ Gerd Rabe: Ludwig Pasch: His greatest wish is a house of cultural encounters. nachricht.at , March 19, 2009.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Christmas exhibition: The Rieder town nativity scene. meinviertel.at, November 23, 2015.
7. ↑ District group Ried i. I. In: Sudetenpost , volume 24, December 19, 1959, p. 7. ( PDF )
8. ↑ The Innviertler Schulspatzen under the direction of Dr. Ludwig Pasch. In: Sieglinde Baumgartner: Chronicle of the city of Ried. History, people, politics, economy, sport, culture from 1857. Moserbauer, Ried i. I. 2007, p. 284.
9. ↑ Father of the school sparrows celebrates his nineties. nachricht.at, March 5, 2009.
10. ↑ Hans Samhaber: The Innviertler Schulspatzen - trailblazers for international understanding. In: The Bundschuh. Series of publications by the Innviertler Volkskundehaus Museum . Vol. 5, Ried i. I. 2002, pp. 122-126.
11. ↑ Hans Samhaber: Obituary - Consultant Dr. Ludwig Pasch (February 26, 1919 - May 9, 2015). In: The Bundschuh. Series of publications by the Innviertler Volkskundehaus Museum. Vol. 18, Ried i. I., 2015, p. 27.
12. ^ Dietmar Assmann: Christmas cribs in Upper Austria. History and regional development from the beginning to the present. [= Edition 10 of the catalogs of the Upper Austrian State Museums ]; Published by the Schlossmuseum Linz , Linz 2003, p. 107. ISBN 978-3-854-74115-2
13. ↑ 1978 - 30. 7. In: Sieglinde Baumgartner: Chronik der Stadt Ried. History, people, politics, economy, sport, culture from 1857. Moserbauer, Ried i. I. 2007, p. 353.
14. ^ Ernst Burgstaller: 10 years of Innviertler Schulspatzen. Upper Austrian Culture Report, 1962, F. 9.
15. ^ Special postmark in the district of Ried im Innkreis. Innviertel stamp collecting association Ried i. I., p. 2 ( PDF )
16. ^ Anna Burghart: Thanksgiving Day. In: Pfarrblatt , Issue 1, September to November 2014, Stadtpfarre Peter and Paul, Ried im Innkreis p. 6. ( digitized version )
17. ↑ Thomas Streif: Ludwig Pasch handed over the chronicle of 150 years of the Ried Abbey School. meinviertel.at, February 13, 2013.
18. ↑ "Father Pasch" - a philanthropist. nachricht.at, March 6, 2014.
19. ↑ Hoangarten in honor of Dr. Ludwig Pasch on YouTube , Innsat.TV , October 21, 2009.
20. ↑ Katrin Stockhammer: Ludwig Pasch: Congratulations on the 95. meinviertel.at , March 7, 2014.
21. ↑ Adult education in Austria. Vol. 23, Federal Ministry for Education and the Arts , 92, p. 53.
22. ↑ 2002 - January. In: Sieglinde Baumgartner: Chronicle of the city of Ried. History, people, politics, economy, sport, culture from 1857. Moserbauer, Ried i. I. 2007, p. 423.
23. ↑ Award for great life's work. nachrichten.at, September 9, 2008.
24. ↑ Prof. Hans Samhaber plaque awarded. In: Kulturbericht Oberösterreich. Monthly magazine of Upper Austria culture. 69th year, volume 2, issue 03/15, Land Oberösterreich, p. 18. ( PDF )