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    Golden Medal of Honor for OStR DI Christian Ringdorfer

    On February 21, 2024, the Federal President awarded Mr. OStR DI Christian Ringdorfer Golden Medal of Honor for services to the Republic of Austria . On April 19, 2024, this high award was personally presented by Federal Minister Norbert Totschnig at the Ministry of Agriculture in Vienna.

     

    The reason for the award was the honoree's above-average commitment during his many years of service as a professor in Raumberg. From 1988 to 2023 he was in the subjects of livestock husbandry, chemistry and chemistry laboratory, project studies/agricultural marketing, non-binding exercises in mountain biking and beer brewing , as a supervisor of diploma theses and as a popular class chairman with graduating classes 1992, 1995, 2004, 2010 and 2014, as an elected member of the school community committee , as a moderator of events such as the Raumberger Advent and in the boarding school service.

     

    Christian Ringdorfer, himself a Raumberg graduate and the proud father of a graduate, was welcomed by his wife Gertraud and on behalf of the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein - on behalf of Direktor Dr. Hans Gasteiner - by AV Dr. Herwig Pieslinger accompanied to the celebratory ceremony in Vienna.

    The awardee thanked Direktor Dr. Gasteiner responded with the following message:
    Dear Hans! I would like to thank you very much, and also on behalf of my wife Gertraud, for the trip to Vienna with Herwig Pieslinger. It was a very festive atmosphere in the Ministry's Marble Hall and at the same time a nice recognition of Raumberg's 35 years as a teacher.

    On this occasion I had to quote Mr. BM Totschnig from Paula Grogger's "Wedding":
    "As a teacher, you don't make a show of your work, you eat the sauerkraut and remain silent. But once I would have liked to show the patron and also the locals how much noble you are educational traveler grafted onto the youth by the sweat of his brow - my throat often became hoarse."

    " 40 years of Raumberg (5 of them as a student) have shaped me and kept me young. Ultimately, I rode my bike to work as often as possible.

    I have always found it a privilege to accompany young people on their path to adulthood. Teaching at the “ School for Life I will miss the youth, the nice colleagues and brewing beer.

     

    Honoring Mr. Christian Ringdorfer

    Honoring Mr. Christian Ringdorfer

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