Robert Zinterhof

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Robert Zinterhof (born January 21, 1952 in Pabneukirchen ) is a retired teacher and freelance journalist. He has received several awards for his social initiatives. As a reporter, he is a member of Upper Austria. Press club and in the ÖJC .

Live and act

After graduating from high school, Zinterhof graduated from the Pedagogical Academy of the Diocese of Vienna in Strebersdorf . He taught most of his professional life as a teacher of German , geography and economics as well as social learning at the secondary school in Pabneukirchen. In 2005 he was awarded the professional title of school councilor . In 2012 he said goodbye to old-age pension.

In his spare time, he has been doing mostly voluntary work as a reporter for local newspapers since he was 20 , and his catchment area mainly includes the towns of the southern lower Mühlviertel .

Both in class and in his free time, he was committed to social initiatives.

  • He is one of the co-founders of the Asylum Platform Upper Austria;
  • He and his wife Monika looked after the last depositor in the Mühlviertel , Franz Buchberger, for more than ten years , and organized an aid network to secure his rights;
  • He was involved in the Barrier-Free Upper Austria campaign and work for people with disabilities ;
  • He collected donations to support schools in Africa and Brazil;
  • Medial support of aid projects for decades and organization of social projects

From 2015 to 2018 he supported the fundraising campaign for the extension to the Waldhausen im Strudengau support center.

In connection with a letter, mail and postcard campaign to prevent the deportation of a family from Kosovo, he came into conflict with the school authorities in 2006. Based on this action, a joint platform for activists on the right to stay was founded in Pabneukirchen with the participation of Zinterhof and the asylum platform Upper Austria, to which 70 groups belonged a little later.

Awards

  • Humanity Medal of the Province of Upper Austria (2001)
  • Voluntaria Award 2005 Main prize for the pupils of the 4 b of the Pabneukirchen secondary school under class director Robert Zinterhof in the category Commitment to a life worth living for people with disabilities - implementation of pupil concepts (2005)
  • Green Prize in the category of moral courage (2006)
  • Human Rights Award of the State of Upper Austria (2007)
  • Inclusio , price of Upper Austria. Civil-Invalidenverband (OÖZIV) in the authorities category for the New Middle School Pabneukirchen, which has been running a sustainable project for several years to show students what everyday life is like for a person with disabilities. The project was supervised by Robert Zinterhof and Monika Berger (2010)
  • Badge of Honor of the St. Thomas Parish, 2004

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Profile of Regionauten Robert Zinterhof in: Bezirksrundschau Perg queried on November 30, 2017
  2. ↑ Birthdays, in: OÖ website. Press clubs consulted on November 30, 2017
  3. ↑ Robert Zinterhof's curriculum vitae on the SOS Human Rights website, requested on November 30, 2017
  4. ↑ Clarification, in: Mayor's letter of the market town of Pabneukirchen from July 5, 2007 requested on November 30, 2017
  5. ↑ State correspondence with media information: Information on the press conference with Governor Dr. Josef Pühringer on December 9, 2008 on the topic of Upper Austria. Human rights award in the anniversary year of 60 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights requested on November 30, 2017
  6. ↑ 459,301.48 euros raised! Extension, therapy equipment, facility financed , in: Bezirksrundschau of March 8, 2017, queried on November 30, 2017
  7. ↑ Pabneukirchen - Center of the New Resistance , in: SOS Mitmensch web presence queried on November 30, 2017
  8. ↑ Ute Bock Prize for civil courage, in: Mayor's letter of the market town of Pabneukirchen from July 9, 2008, requested on November 30, 2017
  9. ↑ Congratulations from Mayor Hans Nenning , Mayor's letter of the market town of St. Thomas am Blasenstein  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. queried on November 30, 2017@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.st-thomas.at  
  10. ↑ Winners of the Human Rights Prize since 1996 , in: Web presence of the State of Upper Austria ( Memento of the original from August 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. queried on November 30, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.land-oberoesterreich.gv.at
  11. ↑ "Inclusio": These are the heroes of everyday life , in: ÖÖN of October 18, 2010 queried on November 30, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Zinterhof, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian teacher and amateur reporter
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Pabneukirchen