Wilhelm Teuber-Weckersdorf

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Wilhelm "Willy" Teuber-Weckersdorf (born September 23, 1879 in Prague ; † March 3, 1968 ), called "Uncle Teuber" by the scouts , was like his brother Emmerich Teuber an officer in the Austro-Hungarian army . He was the first to practice the boy scouting method in Austria for the education of young people.

Tomb of the Teuber family in the Dornbach cemetery

Life

His father Oskar Wilhelm Karl Teuber (* 1852 in Weckersdorf , † 1901 in Vienna) was a journalist for the Wiener Zeitung in Prague. Wilhelm had three brothers: Emmerich (* 1877), Oskar (* 1881) and Maurus (* 1883). He was married to Irma, b. Jagitsch, and had two children, son Emmerich and daughter Charlotte . From 1933, with the approval of the authorities, he used the double name Teuber-Weckersdorf after his father's place of birth.

After attending the Schottengymnasium , he joined the army and was stationed with the 4th  Kuk Hussar Regiment . Because of health problems, he soon had to be transferred to a military educational institution as a teacher. During the First World War he was a horse registration officer (inventory manager for cavalry and training troops ) at the military command in Vienna and became a colonel by the end of the war in 1918 .

In the corporate state 1934–1938 he was district leader of the Fatherland Front and was therefore arrested after the “ Anschluss ” as a Catholic-Conservative and anti-fascist. Released again, he tried successfully to maintain contact with boy scout friends. After the Second World War , he was head of the industrial department in the Salzburg state government from 1945 .

Scouting activity

In 1909 the Austro-Hungarian War Ministry recommended the book Scouting for Boys by Robert Baden-Powell (in the original English edition) as a basis for employment for young people. Rittmeister Willy Teuber, then a teacher at the military educational institute in Straß (Styria) , designed the work with his pupils based on these ideas - they became, so to speak, "proto-boy scouts" with a focus on pre-military training. Therefore, in 2009 the 100th birthday of the boy scouts will be celebrated in Austria.

Together with his brother Emmerich, called "Papa" Teuber, whom he was able to interest in this type of youth work, Willy "Uncle" Teuber is seen as a co-founder of scouting in Austria. 1937–1938 he was Federal Field Master of the Austrian Scout Association and in 1937 took part in the 5th World Scout Jamboree in Vogelenzang near Bloemendaal (Netherlands).

In 1945 he and his daughter Charlotte played a key role in the re-emergence of the Boy Scouts in the American-occupied Salzburg. There he founded the Austrian Scouts on July 25, 1945 and published the magazine Our Path in the autumn of that year . He also became President of the Salzburg Girl Scouts and was Honorary National Field Master of Austria's Boy Scouts from 1949 until his death in 1968 .

literature

  • The guild path. Information magazine of the Austrian Scouts Guild. Media owner, Scout Guild Austria, Vienna, appears quarterly.
  • Kurt Pribich: Log of the scout associations in Austria. 2nd edition, self-published by the Austrian Scouts Guild, Vienna 2004.
  • Manfred Fux: History of the Austrian Scout Movement. From the beginning to the “Jamboree of Simplicity” (1912–1951). In: Franz Loidl (editor): Publications of the Church History Institute of the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna. Volume 8, Wiener Dom Verlag, Vienna 1970, ISBN 3-85351-037-x .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Kurt Pribich: log of Scout associations in Austria. 2nd edition, self-published by the Austrian Scouts Guild, Vienna 2004.
  2. ↑ The Guild Path. Information magazine of the Austrian Scouts Guild. Media owner of the Austrian Scouts Guild, Vienna, issue 2/2009, No. 391/59. Volume, p. 12.
  3. ↑ Manfred Fux: History of the Austrian scout movement. From the beginning to the “Jamboree of Simplicity” (1912–1951). In: Franz Loidl (editor): Publications of the Church History Institute of the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna. Volume 8, Wiener Dom Verlag, Vienna 1970, ISBN 3-85351-037-x , p. 241.
personal data
SURNAME Teuber-Weckersdorf, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Teuber-Weckersdorf, Willy (nickname); Uncle Teuber (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian officer and scout
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1968