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Alexej "Axi" Stachowitsch (
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October 10, 1918 – April 1, 2013
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in Germany and Austria,John S. Wilson (1959), Scouting Round the World. First edition, Blandford Press. p. 216 and founder and first principal of the Werkschulheim Felbertal. Stachowitsch was a program director and journalist at the 7th World Scout Jamboree in
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, director of the :de:Nerother Wandervogel, co-founder of the independent
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educational institution and founder of the ''Jungenbundes Phoenix''. Meanwhile, it has become known that the castle Balduinstein has been the site of many acts of sexual violence against male minors since its founding and for three decades.


Background

Stachowitsch was professionally active in the field of
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, in the
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and as an officer in the Austrian army. In 1935, he acquired
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and was called into the Austrian ''Olympiakader''. He became the Salzburg youth champion in
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in 1935 and 1936. In 1937 Stachowitsch graduated and began a radio electronics course, while he was an
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in the ''Wiener Heerestelegraphenabteilung''. With the
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of Austria to the
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in 1938, he attended the Kriegsschule of the
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in
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, where he took his officer's examination and became a lieutenant in 1939. During
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he served in the army press service on the western front, later in the
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on the eastern front. After the war he became a master radio mechanic in 1947 and worked in a workshop in Salzburg. After leaving the Werkschulheim Felbertal school management in 1958, he joined
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in manufacturing. Due to different objectives, he ended his collaboration with the Balduinstein educational institution in 1989. In 1991 he worked briefly as delegation leader for Russian aid of the
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; in the same year he was appointed honorary colonel of the
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. On 1 April 2013 he died in Limburg an der Lahn and was buried in the family grave at the municipal cemetery in Salzburg.


Scouting

In 1929, Stachowitsch joined the Österreichischer Pfadfinderbund (ÖPB),
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Group 2. In 1933 he took part in the
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in
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,
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where he saw
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. He became a group leader in the ÖPB, but this existed only two years until its forced dissolution in 1938. From 1945 on, Stachowitsch played a decisive role in the reconstruction of Austrian Scouting (
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, PÖ). He became provincial Scout director of Salzburg. The foundation of the ''Salzburger Jugendbeirats'' (Salzburg Youth Advisory Board) was formed in this period with his co-operation. He was an organizer for the "Camp of Friendship" in the
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Valley in 1946 with German, Swiss, Austrian, French and Italian Scouts, the first camp of this kind after World War II. In 1947 Stachowitsch took part in the
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course at
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in
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. As an assistant to the International Scout Bureau, he assisted the reconstruction of the German Scout movement in 1948 and became co-founder of the Bundesdeutscher Pfadfinder (BDP). He lectured at the Faculty of Philosophy of the
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on youth movement, became a member of the International Scouting Conference and studied applied psychology and sociology in the United States through a scholarship. In 1950 he became one of the organizers of the first Wood Badge course of the PÖ. Stachowitsch was a program director and journalist at the 7th World Scout Jamboree in
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in 1951. That year he founded the Werkschulheim Felbertal in the :de:Felbertal near
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, and became the first headmaster. In 1988, Stachowitsch was active in the organization of the Meissner camp. In 2001 he took part in the "50 Jahre Jamboree Bad Ischl" 50 year Jamboree reunion. After 2003 he was the recipient of the ''Goldenen Lilie'' (Golden Lily) of the
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. This second highest sign of honour was canceled unanimously posthumously in July 2017 in a decision of the Federal Council of the PPÖ. Among other things, this decision was in response to a report about sexual assaults by Stachowitsch. He was involved in numerous events, such as the "Augsburger, Würzburger und Rheinischer Singewettstreit" initiated by Scouts and ''bündischer Jugend'' in
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.


Werkschulheim Felbertal

In August 1951 the 7th World Scout Jamboree took place in Bad Ischl. In previous years, the idea of founding a school in
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had circulated among the Scouting community. One month later the foundation stone for the
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Werkschulheim was laid in the Felbertal near Mittersill in the Salzburg
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region. From the beginning, the aim of the school was to combine
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with
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, so that each graduate received a matriculation certificate and a journeyman's certificate. Scouting ideas such as the
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as a unit and out-of-school learning in project and experience weeks are still being carried out today. In the Werkschulheim, the original ''Lagertor'' of the World Jamboree in Bad Ischl stands as a monument from the founding year 1951. In addition, the Werkschulheim has its own
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, which regularly meets there.


Works

* ''Kosakenwacht''. 1964. * ''Sinn und Un-Sinn. Eine Bündische Herausforderung''. Verlag Horst E. Visser, Duisburg 1974. * ''Freude''. Südmarkverlag, Heidenheim 1981. . (Liederbuch) * ''Bündisches Leben – wozu?'' Deutscher Spurbuchverlag, Baunach 1995. . * ''Schule ein Abenteuer''. Guggenberger Verlag, 2001. . * ''Wegzeichen – Lieder und Gedanken eines Lebens''. Deutscher Spurbuchverlag, Baunach 2006. . * zahlreiche Texte in: ''Bündisch ist... Beiträge zur Frage nach dem Bündischen''. Freies Bildungswerk Balduinstein, Balduinstein 1977. (2. Auflage 1979)


Discography

* ''Ty morjak, Der Orden der Kosaken im Nerother Wandervogel singt unter der Leitung von Alexej Stachowitsch 21 Lieder''. Thorofon, 1974. FTH 134.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Stachowitsch, Alexej World Scout Committee members Scouting and Guiding in Austria 1918 births 2013 deaths Immigrants to Austria Swedish emigrants People from Stockholm