Technology

Baczewski, Max Leopold

acolono — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 14:39:45 +0000

Baczewski, Max Leopold Konstantin Ferihumer Wed, 11/18/2020 - 12:56

Max Leopold Baczewski

14 November 1873 Vienna – 19 November 1938 Vienna

After studying at the Vienna University of Technology, Max Baczewski was a partner with Georg Popper in the patent office H. Palm (Michalecki & Co.) at Karlsplatz 1 in Vienna's 1st district. Although he was without religion, he came under the Nuremberg Laws and in July 1938 was forced to declare his assets to the Vermögensverkehrsstelle (Property Transaction Office). As he had to abandon his office as a patent lawyer, he offered the Technisches Museum Wien a number of textbooks from his library. Shortly before his death in November 1938, the museum accepted over a dozen books as a gift. Baczewski died on 19 November 1938 in Vienna. His wife Natalie Baczewski was last registered in a "Sammelwohnung" (collective apartment) at Weintraubengasse 3/30 in the 2nd district. She was deported thereafter to Maly Trostinec near Minsk and murdered there on 18 September 1942.

In 2006, the Art Restitution Advisory Board recommended the restitution of thirteen books and three volumes of magazines belonging to Max Baczewski. Some of the heirs are still to be found, however.

Keywords

Nazi persecutee

Technology

Christian Klösch

6 January 2019

Publications about the person / institution

Beschluss des Kunstrückgabebeirats, Max Leopold Baczewski, 29.3.2006, URL: www.provenienzforschung.gv.at/beiratsbeschluesse/Baczewski_MaxLeopold_2006-03-29.pdf (3.12.2020).

Christian Klösch, Inventarnummer 1938. Provenienzforschung am Technischen Museum Wien, Wien 2015.

Archives

OeStA/AdR, E-uReang, Hilfsfonds, Abgeltungsfonds 8223, Victor Barret.
OeStA/AdR, E-uReang, Hilfsfonds, Abgeltungsfonds 9157, Alexander Baczewski.
OeStA/AdR, E-uReang, VVSt, VA 34590, Max Baczewski.
OeStA/AdR, E-uReang, VVSt, VA 34589, Natalie Baczewski.

TMW-Archiv, Korrespondenz 1938, PZ 207/38, 2150/38, 2217/38.

Wikidata: Q106975485

Bauer, Samuel

acolono — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 14:38:33 +0000

Bauer, Samuel Leonhard Weidinger Wed, 10/07/2020 - 14:19

Samuel Bauer

7 December 1874 Iglau (Jihlava), Moravia – 22 December 1942 Theresienstadt / Terezín ghetto

The engineer Samuel Bauer, the proprietor of an engineering office, was married to Gittel Breine, née Goldstein (née 1880 in Brody, Galicia). The couple lived from 1927 at Julienstraße 58 in Vienna's 18th district. After the annexation of Austria to the Nazi German Reich in March 1938, as Jews they were subject to increasing restrictions. They were forced in 1939 to give up jewellery, cutlery, tableware and furnishings to the Dorotheum. In April 1942 they were obliged to move to a "Sammelwohnung" (collective apartment) in Marc-Aurel-Straße in the 1st district. On 13 August 1942 they were deported as numbers 594 and 595 on transport XXXV to Theresienstadt ghetto, where Samuel Bauer was murdered on 22 December 1942. Gittel Bauer was transferred to Auschwitz on 23 October 1944 and murdered there at an unknown date.

Between December 1941 and January 1943 the Staatliches Kunstgewerbemuseum in Wien (State Arts and Crafts Museum in Vienna), now the MAK, acquired a number of silver objects from the Dorotheum, from the jewellery and precious metals that Jews had been required to turn in since 1939. Provenance research has identified two candlesticks as having belonged to Samuel and Gittel Bauer. They were restituted in 2013.

Keywords

30 June 2019

Publications about the person / institution

Beschluss des Kunstrückgabebeirats, Gittel und Ing. Samuel Bauer, 20.11.2009, URL: www.provenienzforschung.gv.at/beiratsbeschluesse/Bauer_Gittel_Samuel_2009-11-20.pdf (7.1.2019).

Entry "Samuel Bauer 7.12.1874", in: Památník Terezín (Terezín Memorial), URL: www.pamatnik-terezin.cz/prisoner/te-bauer-samuel-2 (1.7.2022).

Archives

OeStA/AdR, E-uReang, VVSt, VA 26264, Samuel Bauer; VA 26265, Gittel Bauer.
OeStA/AdR, E-uReang, VVSt, sogenannte Dorotheumskartei.

WStLA, M.Abt. 119, A41, VEAV 230, 18. Bez., Ing. Samuel Bauer; VEAV 283, 18. Bez., Samuel Bauer; VEAV 484, 18. Bez., Ing. Samuel Bauer.
WStLA, LG für Zivilrechtssachen, Zl. 48 T 4056/47, Todeserklärung Samuel Bauer.
WStLA, Historische Meldeunterlagen, Meldeauskunft Samuel Bauer.

Wikidata: Q104219682

Eder, Maximilian

acolono — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 14:38:07 +0000

Eder, Maximilian

Leonhard Weidinger Tue, 02/09/2021 - 17:23

Maximilian Eder

18 April 1899 Vienna – 29 August 1978 Vienna

Engineer Maximilian Eder worked initially on the chemical analysis of camouflage paint for Luftgaukommando XVII in Vienna before moving in 1942 to the Institut für Denkmalpflege (Institute for Monument Preservation). From July 1943 he conducted chemical and physical analyses for the planned salvaging of artworks in Salzbergwerk Altaussee. In July 1944 he was transferred to Aussee. He was responsible in the mine for the continuous chemical and physical monitoring of the artworks stored there. Until the end of 1945 he examined around 4,000 objects, documented the results and conducted climate controls. He was also involved in the storage of arriving transports. Herbert Seiberl, head of the Institute for Monument Preservation made him his representative in Aussee, and later Eder also deputized for Hermann Michel as supreme head of the salt mine art salvaging operation. According to the resistance fighter Josef Plieseis, Eder was an active member of the resistance movement in the Salzkammergut from January 1945. After the war, Eder remained in Aussee, initially as local manager of the art stored in the salt mine under the direction of Landeskonservator für Oberösterreich (head curator of Upper Austria) Franz Juraschek, and from April 1946 as administrator of the staatliches Kunstgutdepot (state art depot) in Salzbergwerk Altaussee for the US military government in Linz, Property Control department. In November 1947, having moved to the Bundesministerium für Vermögenssicherung und Wirtschaftsplanung (Federal Ministry for Securing Property and Economic Planning), he left Aussee, and his employment there was terminated in February 1948. Nothing further is known about Eder's life.

Keywords

Salvaging

Monument preservation

Technology

Lisa Frank

6 January 2019

Publications about the person / institution

Theodor Brückler/Ulrike Nimeth, Personenlexikon zur Österreichischen Denkmalpflege, Wien 2001.

Eva Frodl-Kraft, Gefährdetes Erbe. Österreichs Denkmalschutz und Denkmalpflege 1918–1945 im Prisma der Zeitgeschichte, Wien-Köln-Weimar 1997.

Sepp Plieseis, Vom Ebro zum Dachstein. Lebenskampf eines österreichischen Arbeiters, Linz 1946.

Anneliese Schallmeiner, "Die modernen Nibelungen salzen ihre Schätze ein". Altaussee als Bergungsort des Instituts für Denkmalpflege, in: Pia Schölnberger/Sabine Loitfellner (Hg.), Bergungen von Kulturgut im Nationalsozialismus. Mythen – Hintergründe – Auswirkungen (= Schriftenreihe der Kommission für Provenienzforschung 6), Wien-Köln-Weimar 2016, 103–128: URL: doi.org/10.7767/9783205201564-007.

Archives

BDA-Archiv, Restitutionsmaterialien, K.22, M.1a, unfol., Bergungs-Ballade, Gutachten von Maximilian Eder, 10.3.1944.
BDA-Archiv, Restitutionsmaterialien, K.22, M. 2, fol.69, Gutachten von Maximilian Eder, 20.7.1943.
BDA-Archiv, PA Maximilian Eder [1942–1948].

DÖW, Nr. 3296a, Bericht Ing. Eder.
DÖW, Nr. 10610, Eder, Kunstbergungsaktion.
DÖW, Nr. 20000/e36, Kopie Gesuch Eder, 25.1.1949.

OeStA/AdR, UWK, BMU, Personalakten, Eder Maximilian.
OeStA/AdR, Finanzen, BMF, K. 2.573, Beiakten zu den Personalakten, Ing. Max Eder.

Ehrenfest-Egger, Regine

acolono — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 14:39:47 +0000

Ehrenfest-Egger, Regine Konstantin Ferihumer Wed, 11/18/2020 - 12:59

Regine Ehrenfest-Egger

24 December 1867 Vienna – 9 February 1945 Theresienstadt ghetto / Terezín

Regine Ehrenfest-Egger was the sister of Ernst Egger and the daughter of Bela Egger. In 1892 she married the engineer Arthur Ehrenfest (1862–1931) in Vienna. For many years, the Egger and Ehrenfest-Egger families were associated with the Technisches Museum Wien. Until his death, Arthur Ehrenfest-Egger was a member of the advisory board of the Österreichisches Forschungsinstitut für Geschichte der Technik (Austrian Research Institute for the History of Technology) and in this function gave the museum several objects. The couple lived at Mommsengasse 25 in Vienna's 4th district. Their son Fritz Ehrenfest-Egger lived with his parents until his flight to London on 18 August 1939. Regine Ehrenfest-Egger's brother Ernst Egger was also registered at this address. Although baptized a Protestant, Regine Ehrenfest-Egger was considered a Jew under the Nuremburg Laws and as such was required in 1938 to declare her assets to the Vermögensverkehrsstelle (Property Transaction Office). On her behalf, her brother Ernst Egger donated a wireless, an Edison phonograph and a steam indicator to the museum in November 1941. Regine lived in her apartment in Mommsengasse until early 1944. Until then she had not been registered as a Jew by the Council of Elders of the Vienna Jewish Community. She was forced out of her apartment on 6 May 1944 and lived in a "Sammelwohnung" (collective apartment) at Malzgasse 7 in the 2nd district until her deportation to Theresienstadt ghetto on 28 June 1944 on transport XLVIII c/167. She died in Theresienstadt on 9 February 1945.

In 2008 objects were restituted to her heirs following the recommendation in 2007 by the Art Restitution Advisory Board. The Technisches Museum purchased the steam indicator and wireless after they had been restituted, but the Edison phonograph has not yet been found in the depot following the general inventory of the museum.

Keywords

Nazi persecutee

Technology

Christian Klösch

6 January 2019

Publications about the person / institution

Beschluss des Kunstrückgabebeirats, Regine Ehrenfest-Egger, 7.12.2007, URL: www.provenienzforschung.gv.at/beiratsbeschluesse/Ehrenfest-Egger_Regine_2007-12-07.pdf (3.12.2020).

Christian Klösch, Inventarnummer 1938. Provenienzforschung am Technischen Museum Wien, Wien 2015.

Archives

OeStA/AdR, E-uReang, Hilfsfonds, Abgeltungsfonds 7762/3 und 7090, Friedrich Ehrenfest-Egger.
OeStA/AdR, E-uReang, VVSt, VA 38988, Regina Ehrenfest-Egger.

TMW-Archiv, Korrespondenz 1941, PZ 1026/28b.

WStLA, M.Abt. 119, A41, VEAV Zl. 245, 10. Bez., Ehrenfest-Egger.

VIAF: 9160362544363500176

Wikidata: Q104447197

Horwitz, Hugo Theodor

acolono — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 14:39:48 +0000

Horwitz, Hugo Theodor

Konstantin Ferihumer Wed, 11/18/2020 - 13:07

Hugo Theodor Horwitz

27 Febrauary 1882 Vienna – July 1942 Minsk ghetto

Hugo Theodor Horwitz lived in Berlin and Vienna and was the author of articles about the history of culture and technology. Between 1916 and 1934 he wrote regularly for the magazine Beiträge zur Geschichte der Technik und Industrie published by the Verein Deutscher Ingenieure in Berlin. In summer 1920 he married Marianne Ehrmann, born in Vienna in 1893, and their only child, Anselm Egon Horwitz, was born a year later. When the Nazis came to power in March 1938, the Horwitz family were persecuted because, despite being Catholics, they were regarded by the Nuremberg Laws as Jews. In March 1939, they had to leave their apartment at Schönburgstraße 48 in the 4th district, where they had lived since the 1920s. After changing addresses several times, Hugo Theodor and Marianne Horwitz moved in early January 1941 to Ungargasse 15 in the 3rd district. On 28 November 1941 they were deported to Minsk ghetto and murdered there, probably in July 1942. Hugo Theodor Horwitz's sister Elsa, born on 30 March 1883 in Vienna, a "patient" at the Heil- und Pflegeanstalt "Am Steinhof" in Vienna, was murdered at the Nazi "euthanasia" institute Hartheim near Linz on 6 March 1941. The only survivor of the family was Anselm Egon Horwitz, who managed to flee in April 1939 to Ireland and later emigrated to Canada. In early 1942, after Horwitz’s deportation, his library and estate was acquired by the Technisches Museum Wien. Both were returned in 2007 to his son Anselm Barnet (1921–2015). The Technisches Museum purchased the library, while the family donated the estate, with the exception of a few personal family documents, to the museum.

Keywords

6 January 2019

Publications about the person / institution

Beschluss des Kunstrückgabebeirats, Hugo Theodor Horwitz, 14.12.2005, URL: www.provenienzforschung.gv.at/beiratsbeschluesse/Horwitz_HugoTheodor_2005-12-14.pdf (3.12.2020).
Beschluss des Kunstrückgabebeirats, Hugo Theodor Horwitz, 1.6.2007, URL: www.provenienzforschung.gv.at/beiratsbeschluesse/Horwitz_HugoTheodor_2007-06-01.pdf (3.12.2020).

Thomas Brandstetter/Ulrich Troitzsch (Hg.), Hugo Theodor Horwitz. Das Relais-Prinzip. Schriften zur Technikgeschichte, Wien 2008.

Christian Klösch, Inventarnummer 1938. Provenienzforschung am Technischen Museum Wien, Wien 2015.

Ulrich Troitzsch, Hugo Theodor Horwitz – ein fast vergessener Theoretiker der Technikgeschichte, in: Technikgeschichte 50 (1983) 4, 337–358.

Publications by the person / institution

Hugo Theodor Horwitz, Entwicklungsgeschichte der Traglager. Dissertation zur Erlangung der Würde eines Doktor-Ingenieurs der königlich technischen Hochschule zu Berlin vorgelegt am 21. April 1914 von Ing. Hugo Theodor Horwitz aus Wien. Genehmigt am 30. Juni 1914. Teil 1–4.

Zahlreiche Veröffentlichungen in wissenschaftlichen Zeitschriften und Tageszeitungen u. a. in den Zeitschriften Anthropos, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Technik und Industrie, Geschichtsblätter für Technik, Industrie und Gewerbe.

Archives

DAW, Bischofsakten Innitzer, Empfehlungen 1939, Zl. 650, Hugo Horwitz.

Familienarchiv, Jo Sorochinsky, Kanada.

TMW-Archiv, Korrespondenz 1941, PZ 10/1942.
TMW-Archiv, NL Hugo Theodor Horwitz.

GND: 125642482

VIAF: 72361148

Wikidata: Q1635770

Jonas, Robert

acolono — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 14:40:43 +0000

Jonas, Robert Leonhard Weidinger Fri, 11/20/2020 - 13:01

Robert Jonas

5 December 1883 Vienna – 7 March 1952 Locarno, Switzerland

Robert Jonas was born in 1883 in Vienna, the son of Benjamin Jonas and his wife Flora, née Spitzer, from Ballasa-Gyarmat in northern Hungary. He completed his studies in 1904 at the Niedere und Höhere Fachschule at the k. k. Technischen Gewerbemuseum (Imperial Royal Applied Technology Museum) in Vienna. In 1905/06 he attended two courses at the Vienna University of Technology. In subsequent years he was no longer registered as a student. In 1906 he converted from Judaism to Protestantism and married Marianne Weiss on 5 August 1918. They had two children, Lili Marietta and Peter Julius, both of whom were baptized as Protestants. The family lived with Marianne's parents Julius and Berta at Dittesgasse 40 in the 18th district, and then from 1935 at Gustav-Tschermak-Gasse 14. After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich, the Jonas family, who were regarded as Jews in the meaning of the Nuremberg Laws, were subject to persecution. In his asset declaration, Robert Jonas stated that he was the manager of an Austrian Brown-Boveri factory. In autumn 1938, the family managed to escape to Switzerland. In 1941, pursuant to the Elfte Verordnung zum Reichsbürgergesetz (Eleventh Regulation on the Reich Citizenship Law) of 1941, the Nazi authorities expropriated their house and savings and stripped them of their citizenship. A short time after the deportation of Marianne's mother to Litzmannstadt ghetto in 1941, Obersturmbannführer Alois Brunner, head of the Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung (Central Office for Jewish Emigration) and hence instrumental in the deportation of Jews from Vienna to concentration and extermination camps, moved into their apartment. The Jonas family never returned to Austria. Robert Jonas died in 1952 at the age of sixty-nine.

In 1938, the Volkskundemuseum Wien (Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art Vienna) purchased a plywood box, ceramic jug and plate from Robert Jonas for 130 Reichsmarks. In view of their historical and ethnological interest, the two ceramic objects were displayed for several years in Schloss Gobelsburg and in the permanent exhibition of the Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art Vienna. It was only during the digitization of the objects in the museum database and the systematic provenance research that the objects acquired from Robert Jonas came under suspicion in the meaning of the Art Restitution Act. In 2017 the Art Restitution Advisory Board recommended their restitution to the legal successors of Robert Jonas, and they were returned in May 2019.

Based on research by Claudia Spring.

Keywords

Company director

Nazi persecutee

Nazi asset expropriation

Technology

Lena Nothdurfter

21 November 2019

Publications about the person / institution

Beschluss des Kunstrückgabebeirats, Robert Jonas, 6.7.2017, URL: www.provenienzforschung.gv.at/beiratsbeschluesse/Jonas_Robert_2017-07-06.pdf (3.12.2020).

Gabriele Anderl/Dirk Rupnow, Die Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung als Beraubungsinstitution (= Veröffentlichungen der Österreichischen Historikerkommission. Vermögensentzug während der NS-Zeit sowie Rückstellungen und Entschädigungen seit 1945 in Österreich 20/1), Wien-München 2004, URL: hiko.univie.ac.at/PDF/20-1.pdf (3.12.2020).

Heidi Brunnbauer, Im Cottage von Währing/Döbling. Interessante Häuser – Interessante Menschen, Wien 2003.

Thomas Mang, "Gestapo-Leitstelle Wien – Mein Name ist Huber". Wer trug die lokale Verantwortung für den Mord an den Juden Wiens? Schriftenreihe des DÖW zu Widerstand, NS-Verfolgung und Nachkriegsaspekten, Münster 2003.

Archives

OeStA/AdR, Abgeltungsfonds 7226/2, Robert Jonas.
OeStA/AdR, EuReang, FLD 14123 Teil I, Robert Jonas.
OeStA/AdR, EuReang, VVSt, VA 18321, Robert Jonas.
OeStA/AdR, Hilfsfonds, Abgeltungsfonds 7226/2, Robert Jonas.

WStLA, Historische Wiener Meldeunterlagen, Meldeauskunft Robert Jonas, MA 8 – B-MEA-231742-2017.

Klinkhoff, Johann

acolono — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 14:40:11 +0000

Klinkhoff, Johann Leonhard Weidinger Tue, 03/09/2021 - 21:05

Johann (Hans) Klinkhoff

1 October 1882 Vienna – 11 November 1949 Salzburg

Johann, known as Hans, Klinkhoff was the illegitimate child of Emma Kikinis and Max Singer, official supplier of horses to the court. His mother converted from Judaism to Catholicism in 1902 and changed her surname and that of her three children from Kikinis or Singer to Klinkhoff. According to his family, Hans Klinkhoff completed studies at an unnamed technical university and in 1911 founded an engineering office and a commercial agency at Brandstätte 1 in Vienna's 1st district. During the First World War he was stationed with the Austrian navy in Pula. While he was there, he met the painter Ludwig Koch, who was working in the military press office. He had been commissioned to paint a patriotic portrait entitled The Emperor's Thanks, and Klinkhoff stood as a model for one of the figures. Until 1918 he sold reproductions of the picture (large print runs of postcards and prints) throughout the monarchy. Some of the proceeds went to the Gesellschaft vom österreichischen Silbernen Kreuz zur Fürsorge heimkehrender Krieger, an Austrian welfare fund for returning soldiers. After the war, he acquired the painting from Koch for his art collection. Between the wars, Klinkhoff expanded his company and specialized in equipment manufacture, control engineering and thermostats. As the only specialist company of its type in Austria, Klinkhoff-Apparatebau Ges.m.b.H. supplied the necessary measuring and control technology for the Amalienbad, Dianabad and numerous other Viennese swimming baths, as well as the Städtische Hallenschwimmbad in Innsbruck. Klinkhoff acquired a respectable fortune, property and buildings and, according to his son Walter, an impressive art collection, consisting mainly of conservative nineteenth-century art. As a result of the worldwide economic crisis, Klinkhoff's company experienced financial difficulties in the early 1930s. Klinkhoff attempted to rescue the company with the aid of a loan from bank director Hans Zeiszig sen. in return for the recruitment of his son Hans Zeiszig jun. as Prokurist (authorized signatory). Shortly after the annexation, Hans Klinkhoff was arrested for a few days and interrogated by the Gestapo but released again shortly afterwards. In April 1938 he fled with his wife Hermine (née Nass) and their eldest son Fritz to Milan, where his company had a branch office. The second son Walter had already moved to London but returned in early March to Hall in Tyrol for exercises as a reservist in the army. In the first days after the annexation, he managed to leave for Britain. In the meantime, Hans Zeiszig jun. was attempting to Aryanize the company in Vienna. As it was highly indebted, however, the temporary administrator declared it bankrupt in September 1938. Klinkhoff's villas in Vienna and Edlach near Reichenau an der Rax were sold and the proceeds added to the company's financial assets. In 1943 the Städtische Sammlungen Wien (now Wien Museum) purchased the painting The Emperor's Thanks "from assets seized by the Gestapo". Hans Klinkhoff, his wife Hermine and their son Fritz were able to continue from Italy to Switzerland and then to Britain, where they met up with the second son Walter. They were interned there in 1940and shipped to Canada. Hans Klinkhoff's mother Emma was the only member of the family to remain in Vienna, where she took her life on 24 March 1942 at the age of eighty-four, shortly before she was scheduled for deportation.

On 24 March 2009, the Vienna Restitution Commission decided unanimously that the painting The Emperor's Thanks should be restituted to Hans Klinkhoff's legal successors, who generously donated it to the Wien Museum. The whereabouts of the other artworks from the Klinkhoff collection remain unknown.

Keywords

29 May 2019

Publications about the person / institution

Zehnter Bericht des amtsführenden Stadtrates für Kultur und Wissenschaft über die gemäß dem Gemeinderatsbeschluss vom 29. April 1999 erfolgte Übereignung von Kunst- und Kulturgegenständen aus den Sammlungen der Museen der Stadt Wien sowie der Wienbibliothek im Rathaus vom 1. Februar 2010 (Restitutionsbericht 2009), URL: www.wienmuseum.at/fileadmin/user_upload/PDFs/Restitutionsbericht_2009.pdf (3.12.2020).

Gerhard Milchram/Michael Wladika, "Kaisers-Dank". Restituierte Erinnerung. Der Fall Klinkhoff im Wien Museum, in: Eva Blimlinger/Heinz Schödl (Hg.), … (k)ein Ende in Sicht. 20 Jahre Kunstrückgabegesetz in Österreich (= Schriftenreihe der Kommission für Provenienzforschung 8), Wien-Köln-Weimar 2018, 313–321, URL: doi.org/10.7767/9783205201274.313.

Archives

Privatarchiv, Walter Klinkhoff, The Austrian Connection. My early life, unpubliziertes Manuskript, o. J.

NÖLA, NÖ-Statth., V-49g, Zl. XVII-452 ex 1904.

OeStA/AdR, E-uReang, VVSt, VA 44278, Hans Klinkhoff.

Taufbuch Pfarre Alservorstadtkrankenhaus, 1. Jänner 1882–31. Dezember 1882, fol. 285, Taufeintrag Johann Singer mit Vermerk zur Namensänderung, URL: data.matricula-online.eu/de/oesterreich/wien/08-alservorstadtkrankenhaus/01-124/?pg=312 (3.12.2020).

Körbel, Hans

acolono — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 14:39:43 +0000

Körbel, Hans Leonhard Weidinger Tue, 11/17/2020 - 19:42

Hans Körbel

9 November 1913 Bielitz, Silesia (now Bielsko-Biała, Poland) – date of death unknown

Hans Körbel moved in the early 1920s with his parents and younger brother Robert Körbel from Bielitz (now Bielsko-Biala) in Silesia to Vienna, where they lived at Neulinggasse 18 in the 3rd district. After leaving school he attended the Bundeslehranstalt für Maschinenbau und Elektrotechnik (Federal Institute for Mechanical and Electrical Engineering) and later completed a state training course in advertising. He worked at Brown-Boveri Werke and Preßburger Elektrizität A.G. In July 1938 he married Judith Fischer from Belgium. After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich, the family were persecuted as Jews. Hans Körbel lived from August 1938 at Wollzeile 19 in the 1st district. A few weeks later he was registered to leave for Palestine. His emigration appears to have been delayed, because he was registered in mid-September as living in Wollzeile until 1 November 1938. Prior to this he had applied on behalf of his mother Meta Körbel to the Zentralstelle für Denkmalschutz (Central Monument Protection Authority) to export her artworks. A watercolour by Friedrich Gauermann and a miniature by Carl Goebel were withheld. Hans Körbel then sold the miniature to the Albertina. The whereabouts of the Gauermann watercolour are unknown. His wife Judith managed to escape to Palestine in September 1938 and his mother is registered as leaving for Budapest on 10 February 1939. His brother Robert Körbel had already emigrated to Mexico in 1925. Nothing else is known of the family's fate. At its meeting on 6 December 2013, the Art Restitution Advisory Board recommended restitution of the miniature sold to the Albertina.

Keywords

Nazi persecutee

Technology

Julia Eßl

6 January 2019

Publications about the person / institution

Beschluss des Kunstrückgabebeirats, Hans und Meta Körbel, 6.12.2013, URL: www.provenienzforschung.gv.at/beiratsbeschluesse/Koerbel_Hans_Meta_2013-12-06.pdf (3.12.2020).

Archives

Archiv der IKG Wien, Bestand Jerusalem, A/W 2589,11, Hans Körbel.
Archiv der IKG Wien, Bestand Jerusalem, A/W 2590,54, Sophie Fischer.

BDA-Ausfuhr, Zl. 2476/1938, Meta Körbel.

WStLA, Historische Wiener Meldeunterlagen, Meldeauskunft Hans Körbel.
WStLA, Historische Wiener Meldeunterlagen, Meldeauskunft Meta Körbel.
WStLA, Historische Wiener Meldeunterlagen, Meldeauskunft Judith Fischer.

Kurzel-Runtscheiner, Erich

acolono — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 14:39:50 +0000

Kurzel-Runtscheiner, Erich Leonhard Weidinger Sat, 03/13/2021 - 11:18

Erich Kurzel-Runtscheiner

28 October 1883 Vienna – 4 December 1957 Vienna

Erich Kurzel-Runtscheiner was a curator and deputy director of the Technisches Museum Wien (TMW) from 1928 to 1939 and 1945 to 1949. As member of the board of the Österreichischer Automobil Club (ÖAC) he was intensively involved as a journalist and engineer with the car invented by Siegfried Marcus (1831–1898). At the end of May 1939 Kurzel-Runtscheiner was forced into retirement on full pay on account of his membership of the fascist Heimwehr, his unconcealed support for the Dollfuß-Schuschnigg regime, and apparently because he had been married from 1912 to 1938 to the Jewish banker's daughter Elisabeth Thorsch (1887–1943), with whom he had three children. Kurzel-Runtscheiner's appeal against the forced retirement was rejected, but with the support of the director of the TMW and National Socialist Ludwig Erhard he found a position as head of the archive of Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg (MAN) in Augsburg, where he remained until autumn 1944.

He was reinstated on 27 June 1945 as curator at the Technisches Museum Wien. Because of his Heimwehr past, he was not popular, above all with the museum's employees. Director Viktor Schützenhofer therefore informed him that he was being re-employed only as head of the Forschungsinstitut für Technikgeschichte (Research Institute for the History of Technology), but not as a member of staff of the Technisches Museum Wien. This arrangement remained in force after 1 January 1946, when Kurzel-Runtscheiner was formally appointed as deputy director of the Technisches Museum Wien. He retired in 1949.

Keywords

6 January 2019

Publications about the person / institution

Christian Klösch, Inventarnummer 1938. Provenienzforschung am Technischen Museum Wien, Wien 2015.

N. N., In memoriam Erich Kurzel-Runtscheiner, in: Blätter für Technikgeschichte (1957), 139–140.

Robert Teichl, Österreicher der Gegenwart. Lexikon schöpferischer und schaffender Zeitgenossen, Wien 1951.

Publications by the person / institution

Zahlreiche Vorträge und Aufsätze in Fachzeitschriften und Tageszeitungen, z. B. in den Blättern zur Technikgeschichte.

Archives

TMW-Archiv, BPA-009786, PA Kurzel-Runtscheiner.

GND: 130216194

VIAF: 25705405

Wikidata: Q95333179

Schützenhofer, Viktor

acolono — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 14:39:53 +0000

Schützenhofer, Viktor

Leonhard Weidinger Tue, 04/27/2021 - 13:30

Viktor Schützenhofer

4 March 1878 Vienna – 24 February 1961 Vienna

Viktor Schützenhofer studied mechanical engineering at the Technische Hochschule in Vienna. He joined the k. k. österreichische Staatsbahnen in 1902 and was summoned in 1907 by its chief designer Karl Gölsdorf to the Railway Ministry, where he was involved above all in the construction and supervision of rolling stock. He travelled frequently: in 1904 as reporter to the World's Fair in St Louis, in 1910 as commissioner to the World Transport Exhibition in Buenos Aires, in 1918 for study purposes to Sweden and in 1923 for three months to the USA. In 1924 he was made redundant at the age of forty-six and continued his career in private industry. In 1930 he returned to working for the state as director of the Technisches Museum Wien (TMW). He joined the Vaterländische Front (Fatherland Front) in 1933 and was briefly in the Pan Europa movement. After the annexation of Austria, he joined a number of Nazi affiliated organizations such as the Nationalsozialistischer Bund Deutscher Technik (National Socialist Federation of German Technology) but did not apply for membership of the NSDAP. As an expert in the history of technology and experienced public servant, he retained his position as director, partly because he had apparently allowed illegal Nazis on the staff before 1938 to continue working. After the death of Ludwig Erhard, first director of the TMW, from 1940 he also headed the affiliated Forschungsinstitut für Technikgeschichte (Research Institute for the History of Technology) and edited the Blätter für Technikgeschichte. During the Nazi era he had attempted to limit the NSDAP's influence on the TMW and was thus allowed to remain in office after 1945 until he retired in 1949. In this way he was able to pursue a public service career without interruption despite all the political upheavals of the time. In October 1945, with the support of the Soviet occupation force and after September 1945 the French occupiers as well, the Technisches Museum Wien became the first Viennese museum to open after the war.

Keywords

Patriotic Front member

6 January 2019

Publications about the person / institution

Helmut Lackner/Katharina Jesswein/Gabriele Zuna-Kratky (Hg.), 100 Jahre Technisches Museum Wien, Wien 2009.

Archives

TMW-Archiv, PA Schützenhofer.

GND: 140132317