Theodor Christomannos

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Theodor Christomannos (1909)

Theodor Christomannos (born July 31, 1854 in Vienna , Austrian Empire ; † January 30, 1911 in Meran , Austria-Hungary ) was an Austrian judge and lawyer. He is considered a pioneer of tourism in South Tyrol .

Life

As the son of Greek-born merchants Christomannos studied at the University of Innsbruck in 1873/74 initially Medicine , from 1875 law . He was a member of the Corps Gothia Innsbruck (1873), the Academic Choral Society and the Corps Lusatia Leipzig (1875). At the first congress of the Austrian corps in Melk in 1879 , it was he who prevented the separation of academic ( Kösener ) and technical ( Weinheimer ) corps as in Germany. His right hand was mutilated on a scale length in Strasbourg . From then on he worked as a left-hander, which severely handicapped him on later mountain tours in the ice and made rock climbing almost impossible.

In 1884 he was at the University of Vienna to Dr. iur. PhD . He became a judge at the Innsbruck Regional Court. In 1887 he established himself as a lawyer in Merano . As an enthusiastic mountaineer , he was on the board of the Merano section of the German and Austrian Alpine Club from 1891 .

Christomannos was an influential politician of the German Freedom Party , for which he sat in the Tyrolean state parliament from 1905 . He saw the economic development of southern Tyrol as a life's work , especially the expansion of the transport network and the promotion of tourism . As the driving force behind the Association for Alpine Hotels I. Rank in Tyrol, he was committed to the construction of the road to Sulden , the Suldenhotels (opened in 1893), the Trafoi and Karersee Hotel (opened in 1896), the Great Dolomite Road Bozen-Cortina Toblach and the Vinschgau Railway .

At the end of 1910 he commissioned the portrait painter Ferdinand Behrens to make a portrait of himself. However, due to his unexpected death, it was not completed until 1911. Behrend's portraits were based on photographs.

Christomannos had had a heart condition for a long time. In addition to the flu , he suffered from pleurisy , from which he died. He was buried on February 1, 1911 in the city cemetery of Merano in a communal grave of honor .

The Christomannos memorial designed by Willy Zügel , above the Karer Pass near Vigo di Fassa , unveiled on September 24, 1912 and later partially destroyed - a 2.70 m high bronze eagle weighing 350 kg - was renovated in 1959.

His uncle was the chemist Anastasios Christomanos , his cousin was Constantin Christomanos , the Greek teacher and occasionally the reader of Empress Elisabeth .

Publications

Franz Dantone (photographer): Christomannos (right) next to Ludwig Norman-Neruda with his wife May and a mountain guide from the Fassa Valley

literature

  • Miscellaneous. (...) New Alps Hotels. In:  Der Alpenfreund. Illustrated tourist magazine for the Alpine region , year 1896, (VI. Year), pp. 159–160 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / daf
  • Otto von Sölder: † Dr. Theodor Christomannos. In: Mitteilungen des Deutschen und Österreichischen Alpenverein , 37, 1911, p. 33 ff. (Online at ALO ).
  • Christomanos Theodor. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 147.
  • Karlheinz Pollner: Dr. Theodor Christomannos Gothiae Innsbruck, Lusatiae Leipzig (1854–1911), the developer of South Tyrol . Einst und Jetzt , Vol. 8 (1963), pp. 80-85.
  • Stefan Schwienbacher: Theodor Christomannos - the Alpenhotels Sulden, Trafoi and Karersee . Thesis. University of Vienna, Vienna 1997, OBV .
  • In the footsteps of Theodor Christomannos (1854–1911) . Athesia, Bozen 2011, OBV .
  • Jutta Heugl (née Christomannos): Theodor Christomannos. My personal search for traces . (Source: 1920). Der Schlern , Volume 85.2011,6, Bozen 2011, OBV , pp. 52-69.
  • Silvano Faggioni: Theodor Christomannos. Ingenious pioneers del turismo nelle Dolomiti. (Italian). Reverdito, Trento 2012. ISBN 978-88-7978-180-0 .

Web links

Commons : Theodor Christomannos  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Korps-Lists 1910, 132 , 25; 149 , 556
  2. ^ Albin Kulhanek: The AGV Innsbruck and its members from 1863-1906 . Innsbruck 2003.
  3. ↑ Sölder: † Dr. Theodor Christomannos , p. 34.
  4. ↑ Abg. Dr. Christomannos †. In:  Innsbrucker Nachrichten , No. 24/1911, January 30, 1911, p. 8, bottom center. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / ibn.
  5. ↑ Abg. Dr. Theodor Christomannos †. In:  Innsbrucker Nachrichten , No. 25/1911, January 31, 1911, p. 5, center right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / ibn.
  6. ↑ Abg. Dr. Christomannos †. In:  Innsbrucker Nachrichten , No. 27/1911, February 3, 1911, p. 6, center left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / ibn.
  7. ^ O. E .: The Christomannos monument at the rose garden. The celebration of its unveiling on September 24th . In: Meraner Zeitung , September 25, 1912 (No. 115/1912, 46th year), ZDB -ID 2430311-2 , pp. 1-4.
  8. ^ Desecration of the Christomannos monument. In: Mitteilungen des Deutschen und Österreichischen Alpenverein , year 1920 (Volume XXXVI), p. 61, center right. (Online at ALO ).

Remarks

  1. ↑ In particular, the article in the Innsbrucker Nachrichten , February 3, 1911, p. 6 allows the conclusion that Christomannos took the Rigorosa at the University of Innsbruck.
  2. ↑ Theodor Christomannos may only have worked as an author in Part III (end) of the monograph . - For the sake of completeness, reference is made to the previous parts:
personal data
SURNAME Christomannos, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian tourism pioneer and politician, member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1911
Place of death Meran