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 by the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein - on behalf of director Dr. Hans Gasteiner - by AV Dr. Herwig Pieslinger accompanied to the celebratory ceremony in Vienna.

The awardee thanked Director 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.