Martin Busch

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Martin Busch (born April 14, 1896 in Wels ; † August 5, 1958 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian educator and from 1953 to 1957 chairman of the Austrian Alpine Club .

Life

Busch, coming from a humble background, attended high school and graduated with honors. In World War I he served on the Italian front and finished this as a highly decorated lieutenant in the reserve. After the lost war, he studied French and gymnastics at the University of Innsbruck and in Freiburg in Switzerland and Paris . In 1921 he took up a teaching position as a gymnastics teacher at the Innsbruck Federal and Realgymnasium. From 1931 he headed the regional office for alpine youth hiking in Tyrol set up by the Alpine Association. Because Busch was a functionary of the Fatherland Front and was classified as a political opponent, he was suspended from teaching after the integration of Austria into the German Reich . During the Second World War he served in the Army Personnel Office in the Army High Command in Berlin. After the war he was a member of the trust management committee and was appointed chairman in 1946. In 1947 he was entrusted with the trust management of around 180 huts of the German sections of the Alpine Club and handled their restitution . At the end of 1952, Busch was elected first chairman of the Austrian Alpine Club.

Busch suffered from a war injury from the First World War and died as a result at the age of 64. He is buried in the St. Nikolaus cemetery in Innsbruck.

Honors

The Martin Busch Hut named after Martin Busch
Memorial plaque at the Martin-Busch-Hütte

Busch was appointed honorary member in 1956 by the German Alpine Club and in 1957 by the Austrian Alpine Club as well as by numerous Alpine Club sections. Around 1957 he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the German Order of Merit .

Accusations by Hans Haid

The Ötztal folklorist and publicist Hans Haid claimed several times that Busch was a " Nazi " and therefore demanded that the Martin-Busch-Hütte be renamed the Neue Samoarhütte. The contemporary witness and former bishop Reinhold Stecher as well as Ludwig Steiner , diplomat, politician, vice president of the documentation archive of the Austrian resistance and at that time one of the most important liaison men of the resistance groups in Innsbruck, denied this.

literature

  • Richard Gramm: In memory of Hofrat Professor Martin Busch . Alpine Club Yearbook 1978, Innsbruck 1978

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Bergauf, No. 01-2013, pages 46–48, online
  2. ^ A b Martin Achrainer: Martin Busch - On the biography of the former OeAV chairman , archive of the Austrian Alpine Club
  3. ↑ Tiroler Tageszeitung , print edition from November 25, 2012: Busch was not a Nazi ( Memento from February 19, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME Busch, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian educator and Alpine Club functionary
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH catfish
DATE OF DEATH 5th August 1958
Place of death innsbruck