Walter Knoglinger

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Walter Knoglinger (born December 1, 1928 in Ried im Innkreis ; † August 22, 2012 ) was an Austrian journalist and sports official .

From 1977 to 1988 he headed the Office for Press and Tourism of the City of Linz. As president of the state sailing association, he was appointed consultant for sport to the Upper Austrian state government.

Journalist and publicist

Walter Knoglinger grew up in Peuerbach as the son of the local secondary school teacher and poet August Knoglinger .

After attending secondary schools in Vienna and Linz , he worked from 1948 to 1968 as a journalist for daily and weekly newspapers in Linz and Vienna and as head of public relations for a car manufacturer. Among other things, he worked from 1949 to 1954 for the then largest Upper Austrian weekly newspaper Echo der Heimat , temporarily also as its editor-in-chief. He was a member of the editorial board of the Upper Austrian News for ten years .

In addition to his job, he studied journalism , art history and history at the University of Vienna .

In 1969 he came to the Office for Press and Tourism of the City of Linz and from 1977 to 1988 he was head of this office. In this capacity, he was editor of the magazines Linz active and what's going on .

He wrote numerous essays and articles on cultural and art-historical topics and is the author of regional studies and books.

Sports official

Knoglinger learned to sail in a naval school on the Baltic Sea and indulged in his hobby on the Attersee . He was President of the Upper Austrian Sailing Association for 32 years, was then appointed Honorary President of the Association and he was awarded the Golden Decoration of Honor of the Upper Austrian Sailing Association.

As a consultant to the Upper Austrian provincial government for sports, he campaigned for the Upper Austrian sailing clubs in offices and authorities.

Works

  • Linz today. State capital, living space and economic area , Linz 1986, ISBN 9783853203781 .
  • Active in Linz for 25 years. 100 editions of the cultural quarterly journal Linz aktiv , Linz, 1986, in: Linz Aktiv 100, pp. 15 to 17.
  • 500 years of Linz - state capital , Rudolf Trauner Verlag, Linz 1989, ISBN 3-85320-473-2 , 295 pp.
  • Book treasures of the Middle Ages saved from decay. The life's work of book restorer Prof. Eleonore Klee in St. Florian . In: Blickpunkte Oberösterreich, culture magazine, year 41, Linz 1991.
  • Building history of the Linz Cathedral , in: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten 1962, No. 99, Linz 1962.
  • The house of the eternal past. The importance of the Upper Austrian regional archive , in: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten 1959, No. 90, Linz 1959.
  • With Wilfried Hopf u. a .: International wind music. 50 years of Leonding Trachtenkapelle , Leonding 1977.
  • Linzer Veranstaltungsgesellschaft mbH (LIVA), publisher: Festschrift for the opening of the Brucknerhaus , Linz 1974, 95 pages.
  • The legacy of the river. Life and fate for generations on the banks. Schiffertradition of the citizens of Stadl-Paura on the upper Traun , viewpoints Upper Austria, culture magazine, year 42, 1992, issue 3, S 20ff, Linz, 1992.
  • The way out of chaos. The city of Linz since 1945 , in: Linz aktiv, issue 35, 1970, p. 15ff, Linz 1970.
  • The Hallstatt time rises from the pits. Prehistorians research the oldest mine workings in Hallstatt's salt mountain , in: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten 1963, no. 167, Linz 1963.
  • The technology of the report. Shown on the basis of the Linzer Tages-Post and the successor sheet Oberösterreichische Nachrichten , Linz 1962, 176 pages.
  • The time is 4,000 years ... Hallstatt seen from the prehistory , in: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten 1962, No. 261, Linz 1962.
  • Welfare and welfare , in: Das Oberösterreichische Heimatbuch, Volume 1, Vienna 1966, pp. 171ff.
  • Wholesaler in vacation pleasure. The Raml travel agency in Linz has been expanding on the global tourism market for 60 years , in: Linz aktiv No. 111, 1989, pp. 18ff.
  • Home of the war theater , nine-part series in the Oberösterreichische Nachrichten 1965 at the end of the war in Upper Austria in 1945, Linz 1965.
  • Life companions made of clay and firebrick. The world of tiled stoves is in Upper Austria , in: Blickpunkte Upper Austria, culture magazine, volume 42, 1992, issue 4, p. 54ff.
  • Linz active. A decade in the service of the state capital. The representative quarterly of the city of Linz in the past and in the present , in: Linz aktiv, Heft 41, 1971, Linz 1971, p. 9ff.
  • Linz today. Linz today. State capital of impetuous vitality and secret beauty , Linz 1978, 250 pages.
  • Linz in the force field of the social revolution. Working and housing conditions of the workers in Linz at the turn of the century, in: Linz aktiv, Heft 31, 1969, p. 13ff.
  • Mondsee's lost manuscripts , in: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten, 1962, No. 255, Linz 1962.
  • Upper Danube. Valley of Hope , in: Blickpunkte Oberösterreich, culture magazine, year 43, 1983, issue 4, p. 16ff.
  • Quartz in my eyes. Almost a million stones are processed each year , in: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten 1960, No. 101.
  • Human self-liberation or self-delusion. The central concern of the painter Ernst Reischenböck , in: Linz aktiv, 1970, issue 37, p. 33ff.
  • Surfing with obstacles. The development of the Linz shipyard in the 160 years of its existence , in: Linz aktiv, 1992, issue 115, p. 26ff.
  • Romantic Peuerbach. 700 years of Markt Peuerbach. Peuerbach 1981.

Web links

Literature by and about Walter Knoglinger in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Former head of the press office of the city of Linz Dr. Walter Knoglinger died , in: Website of the City of Linz , queried on 6. October 2015
  2. ^ Hans Prodinger: Dr. phil. Walter Knoglinger passed away ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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 October 7, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spoe-peuerbach.at
  3. ↑ Eva-Maria Jöchtl: Echo home. Processing of the largest Upper Austrian weekly newspaper after 1945, diploma thesis, University of Linz, 2013 requested on October 7, 2015
  4. ↑ Obituary Dr. Walter Knoglinger , in: Web presence of the sailing association , queried on October 6, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Knoglinger, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist and sports official
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Ried im Innkreis
DATE OF DEATH 22nd August 2012