Rudolf Zach

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Rudolf Zach (born August 17, 1904 , † August 11, 1994 ) was an Austrian primary school director , civil servant , nature conservation officer , home keeper and author of local history writings.

Live and act

From 1934 to 1939 he was director of the one-class elementary school Kaindorf in Haibach im Mühlkreis and then joined the district school council in the Perg district . He did not take up his retirement pension until 1974 when he was 70 years old, but looked after the district photography office for a number of years.

From 1964 to 1975 he acted as nature conservation officer of the Upper Austrian provincial government and from 1950 to 1974 he was in charge of the district teacher library , which he expanded as a specialist library for history and local history and which is now part of the library of the Heimathaus-Stadtmuseum Perg .

Under the influence of the excavation of a burial ground in the village of Auhof (municipality of Perg) , he co-founded the Heimatverein in Perg in 1967 , where he was first secretary in 1968 and custodian of the Heimathaus from 1970 to 1984 . During his active work in the Heimatverein he collected more than 60 finds from the Neolithic Age . In the 1970s he campaigned for the rescue of the historic Ratgöbluckn stables in Perg and achieved the classification as protected cultural property in the sense of the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict .

Publications

  • In 1959 he created the extensive textbook Local Studies of the Perg District as a guide for local history lessons
  • In 1969 he wrote most of the commemorative publication on the occasion of Perg's town elevation
  • He was the author of several local history essays, most of which were published in the weekly Mühlviertler Nachrichten and local history journals.
  • The pitch oil stones in the eastern Mühlviertel. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets . Volume 33, Linz 1979, issue 1/2, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  • Perg - soap boiler house. In: Palaces and town houses in Austria. Notring yearbook, 1970.
  • 80 years ago, a weekly paper was published for the first time in Perg. In: Mühlviertel home. Volume 86, 1975, No. 13.
  • From the history of the Machland. In: Festschrift for Machland regulation. 1968.
  • The “Ratgöbluckn” stables in Perg - a cultural monument. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets. Year 29, Linz 1975, issue 1/2, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.

Awards

literature

  • Various editions of the Mühlviertler Nachrichten from 1974, 1984, 1985, 1993 each with a detailed biography on the occasion of honors.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A congregation introduces itself (PDF; 3.4 MB)
  2. ↑ Heimat- und Museumsverein Perg in regiowiki.at
  3. ↑ Bibliography in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
personal data
SURNAME Zach, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian primary school director, civil servant, nature conservation officer, home keeper and author
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1904
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1994