Paul Bernecker

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Paul Bernecker (* 1908 ; † June 9, 2003 ) was an Austrian business educator.

Life

From 1952 to 1955, Bernecker was head of the newly established office for the reconstruction of the Austrian tourism industry in the then Federal Ministry for Trade and Reconstruction in Vienna . In 1955 he was the driving force behind the founding of the Austrian Tourism Promotion Association (ÖFVW, today Österreich Werbung ) and was appointed founding managing director of the ÖFVW by the members of the association in the same year. He held this office until 1965, followed by Harald Langer-Hansel , who like Bernecker came from the Ministry of Commerce.

From 1951 on, Bernecker was a lecturer at the University of World Trade, renamed the Vienna University of Economics and Business , until 1965, alongside his work in the Ministry of Commerce and the ÖFVW, and later headed the Institute for Tourism and Leisure Research at this university until 1981; At times he was also the rector of the university. Paul Bernecker made a decisive contribution to the development of modern tourism science. Together with his two Swiss colleagues Hunziker and Krapf, he is considered to be the founder of scientific tourism research in German-speaking countries. (See History of Tourism Research .) 1975–1990 he was a member of the WU Board of Trustees. In 1977 he was made an honorary senator of the University of Vienna . His successor as head of the institute was Josef Mazanec .

Works

  • Modern tourism. Market and business problems in individual presentations , Österreichischer Gewerbeverlag, Vienna 1955
  • The position of tourism in the economic performance system , Österreichischer Gewerbeverlag, Vienna 1956
  • Principles of tourism education and tourism policy , Österreichischer Gewerbeverlag, Vienna 1962
  • Fundamentals of tourism , Österreichischer Gewerbeverlag, Vienna 1962
  • The function of the spa and traffic director in the development of tourism , Jaeger-Verlag, 1963
  • Investigation of tourism in recreational villages and resting places , in: Series of publications by the Austrian Society for Spatial Research and Planning (ÖGRR), Springer-Verlag, Vienna 1967
  • with Claude Kaspar and Josef Mazanec : On the development of tourism research and education in recent years. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Institute for Tourism at the Vienna University of Economics and Business , ÖGAF series, volume 3, published by the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration in 1984

literature

  • Walter Ender (eds.), Walter Hunziker, HP Schmidhauser and others: Festschrift for the completion of the 65th year of life of Paul Bernecker, dedicated by friends, colleagues and students , Institute for Tourism Research, Vienna 1973
  • Walter Ender (Hrsg.): Festschrift for the completion of the 70th year of life by Prof. Dkfm. Dr. Paul Bernecker , Manz-Verlag, Vienna 1978
  • Peter Mantel: Business Administration and National Socialism: A Study of Institutional and Personal History . Wiesbaden: Gabler, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8349-8515-6 , p. 662

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Isabella Krottenberger: Sociology of Tourism , on the website of the University of Linz , accessed on December 23, 2012.
  2. ↑ History of the WU Board of Trustees on the WU website ( Memento of the original dated February 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 23, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wu.ac.at
  3. ↑ List of honorary senators on the website of the University of Vienna , accessed on December 23, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Bernecker, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian business educator
DATE OF BIRTH 1908
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 2003