Walther Schaumann

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Walther Schaumann (1991)

Walther Schaumann (born September 2, 1923 in Vienna ; † October 13, 2004 in Laas , Kötschach-Mauthen ) was an Austrian officer , mountaineer, historian and author of several books about the mountain war on the Austrian-Italian border from 1915 to 1917.

Life

Schaumann has traveled the entire Southwest Front since his early childhood and in 50 years hiked alone and later together with his wife Gabriele, who is also a co-author of some of his books, the old battle zones. He also recorded his experiences in tour guides. In 1973 he founded the association of “ Friends of the Dolomites - Peace Ways / Le vie della pace” and, with volunteers, restored numerous war routes, thereby turning them into peace routes, true to the motto: “Paths that once divided fronts should connect today.” He For ten years headed the “Museum 1915–1918” in Kötschach-Mauthen and the open-air museum on the Plöckenpass , Carinthia .

Walther was born as the son of Ernst and Ingeborg Schaumann, b. Putschek, born in Vienna. As early as 1930 he migrated with his parents in South Tyrol and Istria, in 1932 from the Plöckenpass to Sillian, areas that his father was familiar with from his military service during the First World War . Since his father was a professor at the Theresianum , he was able to continue attending this school even after his early death. During the Second World War he served in the German Navy . From 1960 until his retirement in 1983 he was an officer in the Austrian Armed Forces with the rank of colonel . In addition to his job, he devoted himself to studying the history of civil and military mountaineering and the Austria / Italy front from 1915 to 1918. He published his findings in numerous articles in domestic u. foreign magazines and books dealing with the mountains and their history and gave numerous lectures at home and abroad. 1973 founding of the association of "Dolomitenfreunde" and from 1973 to 2004 he was the construction manager of the path construction campaigns "Friedenswege" from Col di Lana to the Plöckenpass , ran the construction of the open-air museums 1915–1917 on Monte Piano (room Drei Zinnen-Misurina) and from 1983 in the area of ​​the Plöckenpass directly on the border between Austria and Italy. 1992 saw the opening of the 1915–18 museum “From Ortler to the Adriatic” in the town hall of Kötschach-Mauthen , which he had planned, built and directed .

Walther Schaumann died in 2004 and was buried at the Mauthen cemetery, right next to the war cemetery from the First World War.

Awards

For his work on the "Friedenswege" he received a. a. the following awards:

  • Tyrolean eagle in gold
  • Gold medal of merit of the state of Salzburg
  • Italian Ordine del Cardo (2 ×) for services to the European idea in alpinism
  • Ring of honor of the market town of Kötschach-Mauthen
  • Honor wreath of the Tyrolean rifle companies
  • Gold medal of the Tyrolean Kaiserjägerbund
  • Golden Medal of the Comrades Circle of the German Mountain Troops
  • Great decoration of the state of Carinthia
  • Appointment as honorary citizen of the market town of Kötschach-Mauthen
  • Hungarian Honvéd Parade Order

Works (selection)

  • Walther Schaumann: Ski soldiers and winter combat through the ages ; US Army Foreign Science and Technology Center, Techtran Corporation Publisher Army Materiel Command, US Army Foreign Science and Technology Center, 1971.
  • Walther Schaumann: scenes of the mountain war in 5 volumes ; Ghedina & Tassotti Editori, Cortina, 1973.
  • Walther Schaumann: La grande guerra 1915/18: storia e itinerari nelle località della guerra ; translated by C. Milesi, Verlag Tassotti, 1984.
  • Walther Schaumann: The railways between Ortler and Isonzo 1914–1918 ; Bohmann Verlag, Vienna 1991. ISBN 3-7002-0726-3
  • Walther Schaumann: From the Ortler to the Adria - Dall 'Ortles all' Adriatico. The southwestern front in pictures - Immagini del fronte italo-austriaco 1915-1918 ; Mayer & Comp, Vienna, 1993. ISBN 3-901025-20-0
  • Walther Schaumann et alt .: End of a naval power Austria-Hungary 1900-1918 ; Mayer & Comp. Verlag, Klosterneuburg, Vienna 1994. ISBN 3-9010-2540-5
  • Walther Schaumann, Peter Schubert: War on the Danube: the history of the Austro-Hungarian Danube flotilla ; Mayer, Klosterneuburg-Vienna, 2000. ISBN 3-901025-86-3
  • Gabriele and Walther Schaumann: On the way between Save and Soca. In the footsteps of the Isonzo Front, 1915–1917 ; Verlag Mohorjeva - Hermagoras , Klagenfurt, 2002 (with tour guide). ISBN 3-85013-912-3
  • Gabriele and Walther Schaumann: On the way from the Pustertal to the Plöckenpass. On the trail of the Carnic Front, 1915–1917 ; Verlag Mohorjeva - Hermagoras, Klagenfurt, 2003 (with tour guide). ISBN 3-85013-983-2
  • Gabriele and Walther Schaumann: On the way from the Plöckenpass to the Canal Valley. On the trail of the Carnic Front, 1915–1917 ; Verlag Mohorjeva - Hermagoras, Klagenfurt, 2004 (with tour guide). ISBN 3-7086-0025-8
  • Walther Schaumann (†): On the way between war and peace: autobiography ; supplemented by his wife Gabriele and some friends of the Dolomites; Mohorjeva, Hermagoras; Klagenfurt-Ljubljana-Vienna 2006. ISBN 3-7086-0195-5
  • Walther Schaumann and Peter Schubert: The Plöckenpassmuseum. Museum of the Mountain Front 1915–1918 Town Hall Kötschach-Mauthen. Publishing house GHEDINA & Tassotti EDITORI srl Bassano del Grappa. ISBN 88-7691-010-7
  • Walther Schaumann: MONTE PIANO Landscape and History The open-air museum 1915/17. Publishing house GHEDINA & Tassotti EDITORI srl Bassano del Grappa. ISBN 88-7691-030-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Report , (requested on December 5, 2009)
  2. ↑ Statutes on dolomitenfreunde.at (accessed on December 20, 2009)
  3. ↑ Not to be confused with Friedensweg (Sentiero della Pace)
  4. ^ Gabriele and Walther Schaumann: On the way between Save and Soca. In the footsteps of the Isonzo Front, 1915–1917 ; Verlag Mohorjeva - Hermagoras, Klagenfurt, 2002 (with tour guide). ISBN 3-85013-912-3
  5. ↑ Walther Schaumann (†): On the way between war and peace: autobiography ; supplemented by his wife Gabriele and some friends of the Dolomites; Mohorjeva, Hermagoras; Klagenfurt-Ljubljana-Vienna 2006. ISBN 3-7086-0195-5
  6. ↑ Der Dolomitenfreund II / 2004, online (queried December 20, 2009; PDF file; 1.59 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Schaumann, Walther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian author, mountaineer, historian and officer
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 2004
Place of death Laas / Kötschach-Mauthen