Matthias Ortner

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Matthias Ortner (born February 18, 1877 in Söll , Tyrol ; † June 14, 1960 ibid) was an Austrian writer and Roman Catholic military chaplain and pastor .

Life

In 1914 Ortner moved to the Tyrolean state rifle in Galicia. He came to Serbia with the 1st Tyrolean Landsturm Regiment. In a daring outburst in 1250 he led soldiers delivered to the Serbs through the icy Mohana Gorge to freedom and received the Order of Merit Piis meritis II class on a ribbon with war decorations and swords from the emperor . From 1915 "Feldpater Ortner" looked after the sick in the army in Peterwardein . There he was in close contact with Archduke Eugen . The team and with him their field priest came from May 1915 to the Lavarone - Folgaria border section . During the Basson battle, Ortner worked tirelessly to rescue the wounded and to give the dying the final unction. He also received recognition from the enemy camp, as in an emergency he also looked after their wounded and dying. Ortner followed the Tyrolean strikers to the Col di Lana . He was also in the May offensive in 1916. Ortner received the Signum laudis on a ribbon with swords for particularly heroic work on Monte Spil in Vallarsa .

Ortner then came to the neighboring Monte Corno, to the Zocchi camp and then to the Assa Gorge between Asiago and Roana . During the attack on the Pasubio , Ortner was again in action with the Tyrolean troops; then it went to work in the Montalon. On November 11, 1917, the Tyrolean Landsturm captured the Cima di Campo fortress near Primolano in Valsugana . Ortner was instrumental in this when Italian grenades were falling and it was impossible to go back, as he successfully ordered the fortress to be assaulted in the absence of officers. Ortner received the Knight's Cross for the Order of the Iron Crown with war decorations and the swords . On December 6, 1917, the height of Meletta was finally successfully stormed, and Field Father Ortner was there despite another wound. The Tiroler Landsturm then came to the Pasubio, then to the Ortler area . On November 3, 1918, the armistice was signed with the Italians, but it did not come into force until November 4.

At the end of the war, Field Father Matthias Ortner was taken prisoner in Italy, but was able to flee over the mountains to Switzerland. In 1919 he became a partner in Altenmarkt im Pongau ; then he worked as a pastor in Oberndorf near St. Johann in Tirol (1920–1926) and in Ebbs near Kufstein (1926–1935). As pastor of Ebbs he was committed to the resumption of the knight plays . From 1935 to 1958 he was in charge of the parish exposition in Aschau near Kirchberg in Tirol . In retirement he moved to his home town of Söll, where he died in 1960.

Ortner wrote the dramas Alexius (1913) and Ramo Rodil (1913) as well as the oratorio text Eva and Maria (1925). He published a catalog of behaviors for the field chaplains to deal with the officers.

Honors

Fonts

  • Tyrolean heroes without a name (Volume 1), Tyrolia 1917

Literature / sources

  • Martin Wörgötter, Our Field Father Ortner. Festival ceremony for the “golden” jubilee of our field father Matthias Ortner, pastor in Aschau, Brixental, Kitzbühel 1956.
  • Irene Hölzer-Weinek, Field Father Matthias Ortner, in: Stadt Gottes, 79th year, issue 10, July 1956, p. 306.
  • "Feldpater" Matthias Ortner dies, in: Rupertibote, June 26, 1960, p. 5.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Ortner , Austrian National Library April 2009, accessed on March 7, 2012
  2. ↑ Matthias Rettenwander: "The war as pastoral care: Catholic Church and popular piety in Tyrol in the First World War", Wagner 2005, page 252
  3. ↑ a b "Annual report of the high KK Ministry of Culture and Education", Fürsterzbischöfliches Privat-Gymnasium Collegium Borromäum 1906
personal data
SURNAME Ortner, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer, Roman Catholic military chaplain and pastor
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Söll , Tyrol
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1960
Place of death Söll , Tyrol