Oskar field dancer

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Oskar Feldtänzer (born August 10, 1922 in Inđija , German  India , Okrug Srem , Vojvodina , Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ; † March 27, 2009 in Linz , Austria ) was a Yugoslav-German author focusing on research into the settlement history of the Danube Swabians and country mannschaftlicher functionary in Austria.

life and work

Oskar Feldtänzer was the son of the farmer and merchant couple Michael and Maria Feldtänzer. He attended elementary school in Inđija and then the grammar school in Novi Vrbas ( German  Neu-Werbas ). He passed his matriculation examination at the grammar school in Sremski Karlovci ( German  Syrmisch-Karlowitz ). He began studying agronomy at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart . During the Second World War he was deployed in the 6th SS Mountain Division "North" on the North Karelian front . From 1945 to 1947 he was in French captivity; after his release he moved to Austria. Field dancer initially worked as an unskilled worker, but in 1947 he was employed by Voestalpine in Linz , where he was promoted to authorized signatory . In 1982 he retired.

Field dancer dealt with the scientific research of the settlement of the Danube Swabians in the Pannonian Plain and the history of the Danube Swabians in Yugoslavia in the interwar period. He was a publicist for numerous articles in the Indiaer Rundbrief and other Danube Swabian magazines. Field dancer also worked as a translator of Serbian texts and Latin documents. In 1999 his German translation of Nenad Stefanović's book appeared: Ein Volk an der Donau . He systematically collected documents and records on the history of the Danube Swabians in Upper Austria. Field dancer had been a member of the Danube Swabian Landsmannschaft in Upper Austria since 1950 and cultural and press officer in the regional committee since 1955.

In 1954 he married Maria Proksch († November 17, 2000). The marriage had five children: Erich, Walter, Doris, Hans and Gisela.

Publications

  • The Danube Swabians in the interwar period and their relationship to National Socialism , Volume 3 of the series History, Present and Future of the Old Austrian German Minorities in the Countries of the former Danube Monarchy , Felix Ermacora Institute, Research Center for the Peoples of the Danube Monarchy, 2003, p. 183.
  • Joseph II. And the Danube Swabian Settlement: Documentation of Colonization in Batscherland, 1784-1787 , Denkmayr, 1990, ISBN 3-901123-02-4 , p. 502.
  • (with Josef Wilhelm) Dr. Stefan Kraft: Former State Secretary, long-time political leader of the German ethnic group in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and member of the Yugoslav parliament; with a description of the relevant historical section of the German minority in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia , Heimatortsgemeinde India eV, 2008, p. 102.
  • (with Georg Wildmann ) 60 years Danube Swabia in Upper Austria 1944-2004: Arrival-Settlement-Integration , Denkmayr, 2004, p. 109.
  • The German east settlement in the Danube region. In: Lithschel, Helga: The Danube. Facets of a European river. Catalog for the Upper Austrian State Exhibition 1994 in Engelhartszell. Edited by the Upper Austrian Culture Department. State government. Linz 1994.
  • Joseph II and the Danube Swabian settlement. Documentation of the colonization in the Batscherland 1784–1787. (= Donauschwäbisches Archiv, 3/44), Linz an der Donau, 1990
  • Danube Swabian history. The century of settlement 1689 - 1805. Volume I. Donauschwäbische Kulturstiftung, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-926276-69-X , p. 548.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of winners of the Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria . Retrieved December 9, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Field dancer, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Inđija , Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 2009
Place of death Linz , Austria