Manfred Hohn

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Manfred Hohn (born May 26, 1941 ; † January 5, 2019 ) was an Austrian writer and operator of the Knappenberg mine railway museum in Carinthia .

Life

After compulsory schooling and an apprenticeship as a sole trader, Hohn worked in several professions before he retired in 2001 after 46 years of work. In 1974 he began to publish about his railway research, in 1980 his first book about the forest railways in Austria was published by the Viennese publishing house Slezak . Hohn specialized as a researcher and author on field , forest and mining railways in Austria, for which he wrote numerous titles.

In 1982 he bought a property in Knappenberg with an old miner's house and set up a mine railway museum that opened in 1987. For many years he was also chairman of the mining association.

Hohn was married to Susanne Weilguny since 1965, father of two children and a grandfather.

Works (selection)

  • Railways in Austria's hospitals ; Railway-Media-Group, Vienna 2017. ISBN 978-3-902894-60-1
  • Field railways in Austria ; Leykam, Graz 2011. ISBN 978-3-7011-7766-0
  • Railways on the Styrian Erzberg ; Leykam , Graz 2010. ISBN 978-3-7011-7724-0
  • 56 railways in the construction of the Glockner-Kaprun power plant group ; Phoibos-Verl., Vienna 2010. ISBN 978-3-85161-028-4
  • Field railways ; Bohmann, Vienna 2007.
  • Railways on the Carinthian Erzberg ; History Association for Carinthia, Klagenfurt 1995. ISBN 3-85454-081-7
  • Forest railways in Austria ; Slezak , Vienna 1989, 2nd, additional edition.
  • Field railways in Austria ; Carinthia, Klagenfurt 1987.
  • Mödling-Hinterbrühl ; Slezak, Vienna 1983.
  • Forest railways in Austria ; Slezak, Vienna 1980.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ News in brief . In: Verband der Eisenbahnfreunde (Ed.): DIE SCHIENE . Vienna February 2019, p. 35 .
  2. ↑ Kleine Zeitung of July 23, 2010: Book presentation
personal data
SURNAME Mockery, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer and operator of the Knappenberg mine railway museum in Carinthia
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1941
DATE OF DEATH 5th January 2019