The Karl Renner Prize, established on the occasion of the
Austrian Federal PresidentKarl Renner’s 80th birthday by the city of
Vienna, is awarded to individuals or groups in recognition of merits for Vienna and
Austria in cultural, social as well as economical concerns, acknowledged on a national or international level.[1] Endowed with 43,600 euro, the prize is currently given to a maximum of six nominees every three years.
Ludwig Brim (train dispatcher of the
ÖBB, jumped on a driverless locomotive and successfully stopped it)[2][3]
Amalie (Mela) Hofmann (head of the nursery of the Zentralkrippenverein in der Lainzer Straße 172)[2][3]
Rudolf Keck (introduced a more economical method of gas creation to the Gaswerk Simmering)[2][3]
Hans Radl (teacher and disabled ex-service man, found a school for disabled children in the Kauergasse in 1926, was appointed to an international expert for instruction and education of disabled children by the
UNESCO in 1951)[2][3]
Edmund Josef Bendl (teacher and author, got citizens donating for the maintenance of the Observatorium Sonnblick with his lectures, his novel Der Sonnblick ruft and the movie adaptation)[5]
Paul Schiel (fisherman, rescued eight people from drowning despite his complete invalidity)[5][6]
Stefanie Tesar (welfare worker at the Fürsorgestelle im Landesgericht für Strafsachen und ehrenamtliche Mitarbeiterin in der Lebensmüden- und Trinkerfürsorge der Wiener Polizeidirektion)[5][6]
Karl Mühl (expert in care for the deaf-mute, teacher at school for the deaf-mute, took care of hard of hearing soldiers in the Second World War, rebuilt the institute for the deaf-mute in Wien-Speising)[10][11]
Gustav Reinsperger (was taken into captivity as a prisoner of war by the Americans in 1945 and delivered to Russia, worked initially in emergency service and conducted military hospitals in severals prisoner-of-war camps between 1950 and 1953)[10][11]
Friedrich Weinhofer (locksmith and welder, prevented two explosions in the heat plant Malfattigasse in 1951 and 1958 respectively. Suffered from severe burns as a consequence.)[24][25][26][27]
Georg Piller und Gottfried Reisinger (Piller, a chauffeur, and Reisinger, a mechanic, helped capturing a robber suspected of murder, who severely injured them both by shooting.)[24][25][26][27]
The Karl Renner Prize, established on the occasion of the
Austrian Federal PresidentKarl Renner’s 80th birthday by the city of
Vienna, is awarded to individuals or groups in recognition of merits for Vienna and
Austria in cultural, social as well as economical concerns, acknowledged on a national or international level.[1] Endowed with 43,600 euro, the prize is currently given to a maximum of six nominees every three years.
Ludwig Brim (train dispatcher of the
ÖBB, jumped on a driverless locomotive and successfully stopped it)[2][3]
Amalie (Mela) Hofmann (head of the nursery of the Zentralkrippenverein in der Lainzer Straße 172)[2][3]
Rudolf Keck (introduced a more economical method of gas creation to the Gaswerk Simmering)[2][3]
Hans Radl (teacher and disabled ex-service man, found a school for disabled children in the Kauergasse in 1926, was appointed to an international expert for instruction and education of disabled children by the
UNESCO in 1951)[2][3]
Edmund Josef Bendl (teacher and author, got citizens donating for the maintenance of the Observatorium Sonnblick with his lectures, his novel Der Sonnblick ruft and the movie adaptation)[5]
Paul Schiel (fisherman, rescued eight people from drowning despite his complete invalidity)[5][6]
Stefanie Tesar (welfare worker at the Fürsorgestelle im Landesgericht für Strafsachen und ehrenamtliche Mitarbeiterin in der Lebensmüden- und Trinkerfürsorge der Wiener Polizeidirektion)[5][6]
Karl Mühl (expert in care for the deaf-mute, teacher at school for the deaf-mute, took care of hard of hearing soldiers in the Second World War, rebuilt the institute for the deaf-mute in Wien-Speising)[10][11]
Gustav Reinsperger (was taken into captivity as a prisoner of war by the Americans in 1945 and delivered to Russia, worked initially in emergency service and conducted military hospitals in severals prisoner-of-war camps between 1950 and 1953)[10][11]
Friedrich Weinhofer (locksmith and welder, prevented two explosions in the heat plant Malfattigasse in 1951 and 1958 respectively. Suffered from severe burns as a consequence.)[24][25][26][27]
Georg Piller und Gottfried Reisinger (Piller, a chauffeur, and Reisinger, a mechanic, helped capturing a robber suspected of murder, who severely injured them both by shooting.)[24][25][26][27]