Walter Just

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Walter Just (born July 24, 1921 in Vienna ; † November 14, 2012 in Wels ) was an Austrian entrepreneur .

Life

Walter Just attended elementary and secondary school in his hometown. After graduating from high school in 1939, he was first drafted into the Reich Labor Service and later into the German Wehrmacht , where he was seriously wounded on October 3, 1941 in the Russian campaign . After his recovery he began studying at the University of World Trade in Vienna, which he completed in the summer of 1944 with the diploma examination and the award of the title of business graduate .

Then he and his brother Herbert Just took over the company Franz Just & Söhne (stamp manufacturer) founded by his father in 1912 , where he was commissioned to relocate production to a safe location in Lower Austria. While his brother Herbert Stempelmacher stayed in Vienna, Walter moved stamp production under the company name Trodat in 1951 from the Soviet to the US occupation zone in Wels and expanded the company to become the world market leader.

In 1984 Just gave up the management of the Trodat company and moved to the supervisory board. From then on he devoted himself to his cultural interests to a greater extent. His daughter Renate and her husband Franz Doppler had acquired the Greif City Theater in 1983 and the theater and concert hall located in it was to be opened with a concert with excerpts from Wagner operas after the renovation. On this occasion, Just donated a Richard Wagner bust, which found its place in a niche in the staircase. At this concert in 1989, which would later become the Richard Wagner Festival Wels , Wolfgang Wagner took part as a guest of honor due to his personal acquaintance with Just and unveiled the bust of his grandfather at the beginning of the event.

Another concern for Just was the creation of a company museum. He had been looking for a perfect building for this for a long time before he found it in 1997 on Pollheimerstrasse in Wels. After the necessary renovation and adaptation work, the listed villa was opened in 2000 as a "traces of life museum" under the management of Just's second daughter Ingeborg Müller-Just, but closed in 2015. In addition, he supported the city of Wels as a co-builder of the Trodat footbridge and donated one of the angels that he had acquired for the Wels Minorites.

Walter Just died at the age of 91 as a result of a serious fall he suffered in his weekend house in Hinterstoder .

Awards

  • 1976: Professional title Commercial Council
  • 2001: Culture medal of the city of Wels in gold
  • 2011: Honorary membership of the Richard Wagner Association Linz ("RWV-Linz")
  • 2012: Silver Medal of Honor from the Province of Upper Austria

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Just at www.mein Bezirk.at , accessed on August 8, 2018
  2. ↑ "The world left the stamp" in the economy , accessed on August 8, 2018
  3. ↑ "WELS mourns Walter Just" on www.welsin.tv . accessed on August 8, 2018
  4. ↑ Life-traces-Museum locks: Villa am Mühlbach will be called Event-Tempel in OÖ Nachrichten of 10 September 2015 on 9 August 2018
  5. ↑ "The stamp maker closed his eyes" on www.meiniertel.at , accessed on August 8, 2018
  6. ↑ "Wels and Trodat lose a grandee" at www.nachrichten.at , accessed on August 9, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Just, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 2012
Place of death catfish