Anton Guggemos was born on the 7th of May 1928 and spent his childhood in Graz.
At the age of 15 he started an agricultural education as a pupil at the manor Grafenhof in
Wolfsberg. It was there that he faced tractors for the first time in 1943. They cought his
attention from the very beginning.
At that time technical equipment in agriculture was quite rare. But the Normag with two
cylinders and the Deutz Stahlschlepper with its iron wheels and 28 HP were already common
standards. Since then his agricultural career has been accompanied by different types like
Kramer K 18, Lanz Bulldog and other tractors.
Nine years later in 1952, he was assistant at the National Agricultural School in Grottenhof-Hardt,
he started his second professional career in the newly founded "B-Gendarmerie".
Even during that time he never lost sight of the tractors keeping in touch with congenial
people.
In 1983 he bought and restaurated his first tractor, an all-wheel driven Lindner. The joy
about and the feeling for that technology so easy to survey and understand started growing.
The collection was more and more expanded by "new" objects and as time passed by the storage
room diminished.
In 1998 a community of interests built a museum at the area of the Agricultural School in
Kobenz. There are housed all the tractors and stationary engines restaurated by Anton Guggemos.
Keeping in contact with other collectors and directors of museums as well as due to his studies
of literature relevant to the subject he became a recognized expert on the matter of technological
development in agriculture.