Minister (Unterricht) Heinrich Drimmel: Korrespondenz 1962-68, Hobby-Meteorologe

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You bidtwo typewritten, signed letters of the Austrian ÖVP politicians, lawyers and publicists Heinrich Drimmel (1912-1991), Federal Minister for Education.

DatedVienna, 12. May 1962 and 19. December 1963. The second letter with the original envelope.

Addressed to the private scholar (private meteorologist) Egon S. from Graz (Name censored on photos). He worked professionally as a mechanic and, after years of private research, developed a theory on how to take the sun, moon and planets into account Storms can be predicted for years (!). and also the weather for a long time. With the results of his research, in which no one else was involved, he turned to research institutes, ministries, the press and publishers, but without success. With some researchers and politicians, however, an exchange of letters came about; the Graz daily newspaper "Süd-Ost-Tagespost" even published some of his articles in 1968.

Heinrich Drimmel always points out "that the Federal Ministry for Education is not responsible for the assessment of scientific questions."

Enclosed:

-Typescript carbon copies of the corresponding inquiries from Egon S., dated Graz, 4. May 1962 and 13 December 1963

-three more letters (in carbon copies) from Egon S. to the Federal Ministry for Education, dated Graz, 26. June and 24. July 1966 and 9. May 1967. Understandably, these remained unanswered

-9-page essay by Egon S.: "From my own research. Sun, The moon and planets move and control the earth's atmosphere" (typescript carbon copy).

Condition:Paper browned and stained in places, cover creased and stained, with small tears. BPlease note also the pictures!

About Heinrich Drimmel Source: wikipedia):

Heinrich Drimmel (* 16. January 1912 in Vienna; † 2 November 1991 ibid) was an Austrian lawyer, politician (ÖVP) and publicist.

Life: Heinrich Drimmel was the son of a police officer. He completed his entire school and university education in Vienna. In 1935 he completed his law studies at the University of Vienna with a doctorate. From the age of twelve, Drimmel was active in Catholic organizations and has held leading positions since his university studies. From 1929 until its dissolution in 1936 he was a member of the Vienna Home Guard and the student volunteer corps of the Heimatschutz, from 1934 to 1937 he headed the student self-government at the Austrian universities.

Drimmel entered the Austrian civil service in 1936 and initially worked in the financial department in Vienna; In 1937 he switched to the teaching department, where he worked on university and cultural affairs. After the "Anschluss" he was transferred back to the financial service in 1938. From 1941 he was in military service, then in American captivity. Employed in the education department after 1946, he worked as secretary to Federal Minister Felix Hurdes. From 1952 he was head of the university section.

From 1954 to 1964 Drimmel was Minister of Education. He was regarded as a consistent representative of conservative Catholicism and in this context opposed himself to the political left, but also to reform Catholics such as Friedrich Heer.[1] Julius Raab, more or less ironically, called Drimmel an “old fascist” – a term that Drimmel himself liked to quote. Right at the beginning of his tenure, there was a noticeable accumulation of appointments to the University of Vienna by former National Socialists: Heinz Kindermann, Karl Mayrhofer, Richard Wolfram, Sylvia Klimpfinger and others. Among other things, he campaigned for the National Socialist and war criminal Oswald Menghin, who had fled to Argentina.[2] In the course of his office, he carried out the school reform in 1962. He made it possible to conclude the 1962 Concordat with the Catholic Church. A year earlier, however, he had already succeeded in implementing the federal law on the external legal relationships of the Evangelical Church based on the formula of a "free church in a free state", of which the evangelical church representative was more than satisfied that "instead of state dirigisme the Josephiner the real autonomy of the church occurs. ... While the concordat policy of the last century recognized a privileged, dominant church, the equality of the churches is now being established for the first time. At the same time, however, the church is recognized as a given and independent entity of the state. In contrast to the libertarian separation of church and state, partnership is ... the guiding principle. But at the same time it confirms that the church can only thrive in complete freedom.”[3] Drimmel proved his cultural-political commitment and his close connection to the Eastern Churches beyond his ministerial activity as the first president of the Pro Oriente Foundation from 1964 to 1969.

The Drimmel era also witnessed strong development in higher education in Austria. In 1962, a federal law was passed establishing a university for social and economic sciences, which later became the Kepler University in Linz. In the same year, the University of Salzburg was reestablished. What later became the University of Music in Graz was converted from a state conservatory into a federal academy in 1963. Even under Drimmel, a Carinthian University Association was established in Carinthia, which led to the founding of the University in Klagenfurt.

After the ministerial office, Drimmel was the executive city councilor in Vienna from 1964 to 1969, as well as the deputy governor and vice mayor. In the period from 1956 (election on 14. March 1956) to 1969 he was also President of the Austrian Olympic Committee. In 1971 he retired from political life and wrote several successful popular scientific works on Austrian history.

Drimmel was a member of the Catholic Austrian University Association Nordgau Vienna and numerous other connections in the Austrian Cartell Association (ÖCV). He was also a member of the Catholic middle school association Austro-Germania Vienna, whose headquarters were relocated to Gmünd, Lower Austria, under the name Leopoldina in 1956 (Middle School Student Cartel Association, MKV).

He rests in the Vienna Central Cemetery (29-1-10) in an honorary grave.

In 1997 in Vienna-Landstrasse (3. District) Heinrich-Drimmel-Platz is named after him.

Also in this district remembered since 12. November 2001 on his last house, Landstraßer Gurtel 3, a memorial plaque to him.[5]

honors

1958: Grand Decoration of Honor in Gold with ribbon for services to the Republic of Austria

1964: Austrian Olympic medal

Commander's Cross of the Order of Honor of the Province of Burgenland

1959: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

1958: Grand Cross of the Spanish Order of Alfonso X the Wise

Grand Cross of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olaf

Grand Cross of the Royal Netherlands Order of Orange-Nassau

Grand Cross of the Papal Order of Gregory

Bavarian Order of Merit

papal Benemerenti medal

1963: Honorary Doctorate (LLD) Catholic University of America (Washington DC)[8]

1963: Honorary Doctorate (LLD) from Georgetown University (Washington DC)[9]

1965: Honorary Senator of the University of Vienna

1968: Honorary Senator of the University of Salzburg

1977: Citizen of the City of Vienna

1988: Ribbon of honor "in vestigiis Wollek", highest award of the Austrian Cartell Association (ÖCV)

Opilio Rossi Medal of the Working Group of Catholic Associations in Austria (AKV)

2014: Honorary citizenship (posthumous) of the West Hungarian University of Sopron for supporting the students and teachers who fled the Hungarian uprising in 1956.

Works (selection)

The antipodes. the New World in the USA and Austria before 1918. Amalthea Verlag, Vienna 1984, ISBN 3-85002-194-7.

Emperor Franz. A Viennese survives Napoleon. Amalthea Verlag, Vienna 1981, ISBN 3-85002-141-6.

Francis of Austria. Emperor of the Biedermeier. Amalthea-Verlag, Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-85002-165-3 (continuation of "Kaiser Franz").

Francis Joseph. biography of an era. Amalthea Verlag, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-85002-173-4.

God preserve. biography of an era. Ullstein, Frankfurt/M. 1989, ISBN 3-548-33111-4.

God with us. The end of an epoch. Ullstein, Frankfurt/M. 1989, ISBN 3-548-33110-6.

God have mercy on us. The world from Joseph Stalin to JIMMY Carter. Amalthea Verlag, Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-85002-114-9.

The houses of my life Memoirs of a dedicated. Amalthea Verlag, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-85002-061-4.

Austria 1918-38. Amalthea Verlag, Vienna

From overthrow to civil war. Austria 1918-1927. 1985, ISBN 3-85002-206-4.

From the Fire in the Palace of Justice to the February Uprising. Austria 1927-1934. 1986 ISBN 3-85002-221-8.

From the Chancellor's assassination to the Anschluss. Austria 1934-1938. 1987, ISBN 3-85002-241-2. (autograph autograph)

From 1954 to 1964 Drimmel was Minister of Education. He was regarded as a consistent representative of conservative Catholicism and in this context opposed himself to the political left, but also to reform Catholics such as Friedrich Heer.[1] Julius Raab, more or less ironically, called Drimmel an “old fascist” – a term that Drimmel himself liked to quote. Right at the beginning of his tenure, there was a noticeable accumulation of appointments to the University of Vienna by former National Socialists: Heinz Kindermann, Karl Mayrhofer, Richard Wolfram, Sylvia Klimpfinger and others. Among other things, he campaigned for the National Socialist and war criminal Oswald Menghin, who had fled to Argentina.[2] In the course of his office, he carried out the school reform in 1962. He made it poss
From 1954 to 1964 Drimmel was Minister of Education. He was regarded as a consistent representative of conservative Catholicism and in this context opposed himself to the political left, but also to reform Catholics such as Friedrich Heer.[1] Julius Raab, more or less ironically, called Drimmel an “old fascist” – a term that Drimmel himself liked to quote. Right at the beginning of his tenure, there was a noticeable accumulation of appointments to the University of Vienna by former National Socialists: Heinz Kindermann, Karl Mayrhofer, Richard Wolfram, Sylvia Klimpfinger and others. Among other things, he campaigned for the National Socialist and war criminal Oswald Menghin, who had fled to Argentina.[2] In the course of his office, he carried out the school reform in 1962. He made it poss
From 1954 to 1964 Drimmel was Minister of Education. He was regarded as a consistent representative of conservative Catholicism and in this context opposed himself to the political left, but also to reform Catholics such as Friedrich Heer.[1] Julius Raab, more or less ironically, called Drimmel an “old fascist” – a term that Drimmel himself liked to quote. Right at the beginning of his tenure, there was a noticeable accumulation of appointments to the University of Vienna by former National Socialists: Heinz Kindermann, Karl Mayrhofer, Richard Wolfram, Sylvia Klimpfinger and others. Among other things, he campaigned for the National Socialist and war criminal Oswald Menghin, who had fled to Argentina.[2] In the course of his office, he carried out the school reform in 1962. He made it poss
Autogrammart Schriftstück
Erscheinungsort Wien
Region Europa
Material Papier
Sprache Deutsch
Autor Heinrich Drimmel
Original/Faksimile Original
Genre Wissen & Technik
Eigenschaften Erstausgabe
Eigenschaften Signiert
Erscheinungsjahr 1962
Produktart Maschinengeschriebenes Manuskript