Walter Minarz

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Walter Minarz, self-portrait from December 23, 1945, Linz on the Danube

Walter Minarz (born June 27, 1909 in Gars am Kamp ; † February 19, 1991 in Vienna ) was an Austrian author , graphic artist , painter and tourist specialist.

Life

Walter Minarz, the son of Richard Minarz, the former local doctor in Gars, studied from 1929 to 1933 at the general painting school of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Wilhelm Dachauer, in 1933 he passed the teaching qualification test for freehand drawing at secondary schools and then passed the prescribed trial year alongside completed his studies at the master school for graphic arts.

During his studies Minarz joined the NSDAP , to which he belonged again from 1932 until it was banned on June 19, 1933 and from 1938 onwards. His teaching activity at the National Political Education Institute in Vienna-Breitensee was connected with his acceptance into the Schutzstaffel ( SS ) and in autumn 1943 with his transfer to the Waffen-SS , which Minarz belonged to until the end of the war. After his release from American captivity in November 1946, Minarz returned to Gars, where he worked as an academic painter and graphic artist and, as a member of the professional association of Austrian visual artists, designed honorary citizenship diplomas, advertising graphics, advertising brochures, paintings and sgraffitos as well as restorations.

From June 1, 1948 to the spring of 1951, Minarz was full-time tourism advisor for the community of Gars and representative of the summer resort of the Kamptal in the committee of the tourism association “ Wachau , Waldviertel , Kamp and Kremstal ”. During this time he built up the community archive, set up a central information point and a room certificate, drafted and designed all tourism advertising materials, wrote a tourist guide ( Gars am Kamp. Topography and culture. The most beautiful excursions ), curated an exhibition and dedicated himself to Restorer of the restoration and design of the Gars town hall.

Although Minarz 1950 for the position of spa director the spa Gmunden on Lake Traunsee assumed that he held until 1956, had entrusted him with his home town of Gars on 1 January 1951, the management of the Garser beach and the spa at that 1954 a cooperation with the Upper Austrian spa town Neydharting entered in order to establish oneself as a spa and “Lower Austrian Neydharting” with the authorized Neydhartinger moor treatments.

From 1957 to the end of 1972, Minarz, nominated by the then Vienna City Councilor for Culture Hans Mandl , was Secretary General of the Vienna Tourist Board , the federal capital's public tourism organization founded in 1955 by provincial law and operating from February 1, 1956. The office of the association, which was set up in Tegetthoffstrasse in Vienna 1., Stadiongasse 6–8 , not far from the Vienna City Hall , operated as the Tourist Office of the City of Vienna ; in addition, there was a central guest information point in the Opernpassage since May 1956 and soon there was also information points at the city entrances in the west and south.

In 1958 Vienna had 146 hotels with around 11,000 beds; In that year the Wiener Stadthalle and the Congress Center Hofburg were opened, in 1962 the Theater an der Wien . In 1964, the Vienna International Garden Show in today's Danube Park with the newly built Danube Tower was the attraction. In 1966 200 years of the Vienna Prater were celebrated, in 1967 100 years of the Danube Waltz . In 1972 the 400th anniversary of the Spanish Riding School took place. During Minarz's tenure, the number of overnight stays by visitors to Vienna rose continuously from 1.9 million to almost 4 million per year.

In 1969, under the management of Minarz, the tourism association's congress office was set up, financed for decades primarily by the city ​​administration and the Vienna Chamber of Commerce (at that time the Chamber of Commerce and Industry ). The experts Ernst Rahofer and Alexander Pfann could be won over to this.

On January 1, 1973, Helmut Krebs , nominated by Mandl's successor Gertrude Sandner , succeeded the tourism association as managing director. Minarz was bid farewell on February 28, 1991 in the Simmering fire hall of the City of Vienna.

Works

Books

  • Gars am Kamp. Topography and culture. The most beautiful excursions [With numerous illustrations by Walter Minarz] (1949).
  • 10 years tourist association for Vienna (1966).
  • The country around Vienna. Excursions in Lower Austria (1987).

brochures

  • Gmunden. Salzkammergut. Austria. 1862 - 1952. 90 years of the spa town of Gmunden (1952).

photos

  • Holidays in the sunny Kamptal! Advertising poster for the Hotel-Pension Blauensteiner in Gars-Thunau, approx. 1949, exhibited since the 1950s in the Gasthaus Blauensteiner, Zur Stadt Paris , Vienna 8., Lenaugasse 1 / Josefstädter Straße 4; Illustration in: Achim Schneyder, Lokalaugenschein. Celebrities and their hosts , with photos by Rudolf Semotan, Pichler, Vienna 2010, p. 18
  • The Schimmelsprung (landmark of Thunau am Kamp ), original picture by Prof. Walter Minarz

Literary historical find

literature

  • Felix Czeike : Walter Minarz. In: Historisches Lexikon Wien in 6 volumes. Volume 4 LR, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-218-00546-9 , p. 271.
  • Obituary for Walter Minarz. In: Wien aktuell. Weekly paper. Employee newspaper of the City of Vienna. February 28, 1991. p. 2.
  • Andreas Weigel : Gars apart from soup and falco. What world-famous film directors, composers, writers and visual artists have in common with the Kamptal summer resort. In: Joanna Lukaszuk-Ritter and Michael Ritter (eds.): Praesent. The Austrian Literature Yearbook 2016. pp. 44–64. P. 61. ISBN 978-3706920162 .
  • January 4, 1972: Tourism advertising: Vienna prospectus in Sidney won an award; Report of the correspondence of the City of Vienna to the City Hall .
  • Vienna Tourist Association (Ed.): Vienna Tourism. 50 years & the future. 1955-2005 , Vienna 2005. (On pages 34 and 36 you can see photographs with Minarz.)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Minarz: Request of February 16, 1948 to the Commission for the Assessment of Freelance Artists at the Federal Ministry for Education for permission to practice as a freelance artist according to Nazi law §18 (p) (Walter Minarz estate).
  2. ↑ Mention of Minarz 'Blauensteiner hotel poster in Andreas Weigel : Gars apart from Suppé and Falco , guest article in: Jetzt 2016 - Das Österreichische Literaturjahrbuch , präsens-Verlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-7069-2016-2 , p. 61 , seen in a photo with Doderer in the background on p. 57
  3. ^ Gars parish: Walter Minarz. Service certificate dated May 21, 1951 (Walter Minarz estate).
  4. ↑ Walter Minarz's authorship of this book is mentioned in his testimonial from the community of Gars from May 21, 1951, which is in Minarz's estate.
personal data
SURNAME Minarz, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian author, graphic artist, painter and tourism specialist
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Gars am Kamp
DATE OF DEATH 19th February 1991
Place of death Vienna