Sepp Tezak

Sepp Tezak (2006)

Josef "Sepp" Tezak , (born June 20, 1923 in Kapfenberg ; † December 12, 2013 ) was an Austrian detective as well as railway historian , photographer and painter.

Life

Tezak attended school in Graz and learned to be a machine fitter at the Andritz machine factory . After being called up on October 1, 1942, he served in the German Navy in an outpost flotilla as a machine maat and returned to Graz in 1945 after being wounded and taken prisoner . From February 15, 1946 to August 1, 1985 he worked in the police service at the Graz Federal Police Directorate, most recently as a detective in charge. In addition to his family - he was married from 1947 with his wife Helga and father of two sons ( Helmut Tezak and Edgar Tezak ) - and his profession had Tezak more than half a century of railroad dedicated.

Services

In more than a dozen books , hundreds of articles in specialist magazines, 10,000 photos, slides and film recordings, Tezak has documented the history of the railroad on the southern line from Vienna to Trieste , especially in his home state of Styria .

To illustrate historical reports for which no picture material could be found, he painted more than 100 pictures, which were shown in exhibitions in Graz and Cilli , among others . Permanent loans are in the Technical Railway Museum ( TEML ) in Lieboch , in Spielfeld and Stainz and in the Railway Museum in Ljubljana .

For this comprehensive life's work as a railway historian, railway journalist and photographer, he was awarded the professional title of Professor on September 21, 2006 . Tezak is thus the first “railroad professor” in Styria, whose paths he documented for half a century.

Exhibitions and participation in exhibitions

• 1987: City Museum Graz and Styria. Sparkasse Graz-Eggenberg : 130 years of the Südbahn , models of historic steam locomotives.
• 1996: City Museum Celje / Cilli: 50 years of railways in Slovenia , pictures.
• 1998: Lerchhaus Eibiswald : The prevented railway , pictures.
• 1994: Graz, Steiermärkische Bank, Andritz : 150 years Südbahn , pictures and models.
• 2001: Styrian regional library Graz: Old Austrian railway album , pictures and publications.
• 2002: University Library Graz: Vivat! Long live the railroad! , Pictures and models
• 2002: Bundesdenkmalamt Graz: Railway technology from the early days , pictures

Works

• Train in photo book 14: Graz-Köflacher track I . Pospischil, Vienna 1980.
• Bahn in the picture Volume 15: Graz-Köflacher Bahn II . Pospischil, Vienna 1980.
• The Austrian imperial train in 1891 . Pospischil, Vienna 1982.
• Train in the picture Volume 29: Styrian tracks I . Pospischil, Vienna 1982.
• Bahn im Bild Volume 36: Steiermärkische Landesbahnen II . Pospischil, Vienna 1984.
• Train in the picture Volume 45: The Southern Railway I . Pospischil, Vienna 1985.
• Bahn im Bild Volume 43: Steiermärkische Landesbahnen III . Pospischil, Vienna 1985.
• Bahn im Bild Volume 56: Steiermärkische Landesbahnen IV . Pospischil, Vienna 1987.
• Bahn im Bild Volume 68: The Southern Railway Line II . Pospischil, Vienna 1989.
• Train in photo book 81: The Rudolfsbahngürtel I . Pospischil, Vienna 1991.
• Bahn im Bild Volume 82: The Rudolfsbahn II . Pospischil, Vienna 1992.
• Bahn im Bild Volume 88: Styrian Railway Potpourri . Pospischil, Vienna 1993.
• 150 years of the Graz – Spielfeld-Straß– (Celje) railway line . Graz 1996.
• 150 years: The GKB legend " 671 " lives on , in: GKB turntable no. 48, Graz 2010.

Awards

• 1978: Silver Merit of the Republic of Austria
• 2006: Professional title Professor
• 2007: Volume 37 of the historical yearbook Stadt und Eisenbahn - Graz und die Südbahn (publisher: Stadt Graz, ISBN 3-902234-06-7 ) is dedicated to Tezak
• 2008: Great Decoration of Honor of the State of Styria
• 2010: Decoration of honor of the provincial capital Graz in gold

Web links

• Literature by and about Sepp Tezak in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Echo Graz Nord: Professor Sepp Tezak - police officer and railroad friend  ( page no longer available , 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. (Issue No. 139 of June 2007, page 34)  
2. ↑ Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture: Gehrer hands over professors' certificates  ( page no longer available , 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.  
3. ↑ Turntable 48  ( page no longer available , 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. (download as pdf)  
4. ↑ List of winners of the Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria . Retrieved December 9, 2015.
5. ↑ KulturServer Graz: Historical Yearbook of the City of Graz ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2009 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. (Table of contents as PDF ) 
6. ↑ Kleine Zeitung of July 14, 2008, page 41.
7. ↑ From the city senate: News from April 23, 2010  ( page no longer available , 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 April 28, 2010)  
8. ↑ A life for the railroad  ( page no longer available , 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. , Graz online (queried on July 16, 2010)