Numismatics

Dworschak, Fritz

acolono — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 14:37:58 +0000

Dworschak, Fritz

Susanne Hehenberger Fri, 11/13/2020 - 08:18

Fritz Dworschak

27 February 1890 Krems – 10 September 1974 Krems

also Friedrich Dworschak

The numismatist Fritz Dworschak took advantage of the Nazi era to assume central functions in the Vienna museum scene. After obtaining his doctorate in 1913 from the University of Vienna and passing the State Examination the same year at the Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung (Institute of Austrian Historical Research), he worked as an intern at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and was employed there from 1915. Apart from being a curator at the museum, he was also the Dorotheum's expert in coins and medals from 1924 to 1939. In March 1938 he became provisional director of the Kunsthistorisches Museum and was its First Director from 1941 until he was removed from office on 26 April 1945. In July 1938, referring to his "pan-German attitude" and because he had "always felt associated with the Hitler movement", he applied for membership of the NSDAP. This was initially rejected, but in October 1940 he became member number 9,020.874. Supported by the weapons expert Leopold Ruprecht, who had been an active member of the NSDAP since 1932, he managed the Zentraldepot für beschlagnahmte Sammlungen (Central Depot for Seized Collections) in the Neue Burg, which was set up in autumn 1938. From summer 1939, he coordinated the storage of items from Viennese state museums, which was supervised from summer 1942 by Ludwig Berg from the Generalreferat für Kunstförderung, Staatstheater, Museen und Volksbildung (General Office for the Advancement of Art, State Theatre, Museums and Culture). Apart from these functions, in August 1941 Dworschak became an assessor for the Reichskammer der bildenden Künste (Reich Chamber of Fine Arts) art and culture purchasing department. From August 1942 he also headed the "Sonderauftrag Münzen" (special coin project) and played a central role in the acquisition of coins and medals for the planned "Führer Museum" in Linz. In October 1943 he married Elfriede Höbarth, recruited for this special project in June 1943 as a coin specialist. At his trial by the Volksgericht in 1946 he denied his NSDAP membership. He was retired from the civil service in March 1947 but a few months later was recruited as a consultant for the city of Krems, where he remained until he retired in 1958. He was awarded the title "Hofrat" in 1960 for his "exceptional service".

Keywords

"Sonderauftrag Linz"

"Sonderauftrag Münzen"

Nazi art and culture policy

6 January 2019

Publications about the person / institution

N. N., Dworschak, Fritz, in: aeiou, Österreich-Lexikon, URL: www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.d/d997647.htm (3.12.2020).

Lee Sorensen, Dworschak, Fritz, in: Dictionary of Art Historians, URL: arthistorians.info/dworschakf (3.12.2020).

Jüdisches Museum Berlin, Raub und Restitution, Glossar, Fritz Dwoschark, URL: jmberlin.de/raub-und-restitution/de/glossar_d.php (3.12.2020).

Harry Kühnel, Dr. Fritz Dworschak. Versuch einer Würdigung, in: Mitteilungen des Kremser Stadtarchivs 23/24/25 (1985), 265-281.

Emanuele Sbardella, Die dritte Seite der Medaille. Dworschak als Sonderbeauftragter Hitlers für den Aufbau eines Münzkabinettes im sog. Führermuseum. Masterarbeit, TU Berlin, eingereicht am 30. April 2015.

Publications by the person / institution

zahlreiche numismatische Publikationen

Führer durch das Erzbischöfliche Dom- und Diözesanmuseum in Wien, bearbeitet von Fritz Dworschak und Justus Schmidt, Wien 1933 (mehrere Auflagen).

Fritz Dworschak (Hg.), Kataloge der stiftlichen Kunstsammlungen in Klosterneuburg, Klosterneuburg 1937–1943.
Fritz Dworschak, Der Maler Martin Johann Schmidt, genannt "Der Kremser Schmidt", 1718-1801, Wien 1955.
Fritz Dworschak, Krems und Stein, Wachau: Niederösterreich (= Kleine Kunstführer 652), München 1957.
Fritz Dworschak, Wachau und Nibelungengau (= Große Kunstführer 34), München 1961.

Ludwig Baldass, Fritz Dworschak, Die Gotik in Niederösterreich. Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte eines Landes im Spätmittelalter, Wien 1963.

Archives

DASP, Trauungsbuch Dürnstein 1891–1924, fol. 115, Trauung von Friedrich Dworschak und Maria Dum, 19.9.1916, URL: data.matricula-online.eu/de/oesterreich/st-poelten/duernstein/02-04/?pg=132 (3.12.2020).

KHM-Archiv, IV 95, NL Fritz Dworschak; 1/KL/1938 (Ernennung zum Kommissarischen Leiter, Anmeldung bei Reichskammer); 3/KL/1938, 93/KL/1939 (Bezüge und Aufwandsentschädigungen); 119/KL/1939 (Ausstellungseröffnung Berlin); 130/KL/1939 (Studienreisen); 149/KL/1939 (Dienstreise Böhmen, Schlesien); 53/KL/1941 (KHM Eigentum in den verschiedenen Gauen, Korrespondenz); 63/KL/1941 (Korrespondenzen, Anstellung Gassauer); 138/KL/1941 (Vortrag in Rom); 144/KL/1941 (Urlaub pro 1941); 205/KL/1941 (Dienstreise nach Linz); 206/KL/1941 (Ernennung zum Sachverständigen der Reichskammer der bildenden Künste); 259/KL/1941 (Ernennung zum ersten Direktor des KHM); 52/ED/1942 (Betrauung mit der Leitung des Münzkabinetts); 124/ED/1942 (Berufung in den Fachbeirat); 153/ED/1942 (Urlaub); 9/ED/1943 (UK-Stellung); 25/ED/1943 (Urlaub); 44/ED/1943 (Dienstreise mit Höbarth nach München); 72/ED/1943 (Erkrankung); 18/ED/1944 (Reisen und Abwesenheiten); 2/ED/1945 (Bericht über Bergungsmaßnahmen); 16/ED/1945 (Reisen u.a.); 46/ED/1945 (Maßnahmen gg. NationalsozialistInnen auf Grund des Verfassungsgesetzes v. 8.5.1945); 33/ED/1945 (Sonderauftrag); I 31, Dworschak an Dorotheum, 19.12.1939 (Niederlegung der Expertentätigkeit); 248/VK/43, Verehelichung mit Elfriede Höbarth.

OeStA/AdR, UWK, BMU, Personalakten, K. 3/28, Friedrich Dworschak.
OeStA/AdR, ZNsZ, Gauakt 562, Fritz Dworschak.

WStLA, LG für Strafsachen, A11, Vr-Strafakten, VgVr 1929/46 Ludwig Berg, Fritz Dworschak.
WStLA, Gauakten, A1-'Gauakten', Personalakten des Gaues Wien, 315.283, Fritz Dworschak.
WStLA, Historische Wiener Meldeunterlagen, Meldeauskunft Fritz Dworschak.

GND: 136589162

VIAF: 80907734

Wikidata: Q17417910

Fürst, Leo

acolono — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 14:41:09 +0000

Fürst, Leo Leonhard Weidinger Sat, 02/27/2021 - 17:47

Leo Fürst

22 July 1873 Baden near Vienna – January 1941 Nice

In 1938, Leo Fürst, who lived at Maria-Theresien-Straße 16/4 in Vienna's 1st district, was director of the Evidenzbüro österreichischer Mineralölfirmen. After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich, unknown persons – according to the testimony of his nephew it was members of the SA – broke into his apartment and stole some of his art collection, including two etchings by Ferdinand Schmutzer and Isidor Kaufmann. Fürst himself was arrested by the Gestapo in June 1938 and detained in the prison at Rossauerlände, because he wanted to press charges for the theft. After his release, he fled in July 1938 first to Opatija, while his assets were expropriated by the German Reich. The Gestapo gave his coin collection (mostly coins of Austrian rulers), which were "reserved by the Führer" as objects of artistic or cultural value, in June 1938 to the Kunsthistorisches Museum (KHM) in Vienna for safekeeping and cataloguing. In 1941, the KHM Coin Collection requested the entire collection of 873 objects from the "special representative" Hans Posse, who distributed 401 of the gold coins and 237 silver coins as a "Führer donation" to the coin collections in Graz, Salzburg, Klagenfurt and Innsbruck. The 235 non-precious-metal coins were all given to the Vienna Coin Collection, 227 of which are deemed to have been lost in the war. In a letter of 24 March 1941 to Fritz Dworschak, First Director of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Posse mentioned eighteen gold coins from the Fürst collection, which were earmarked for the "Sonderauftrag". The transaction was never completed, however, and the coins remained in the KHM. At Dworschak's suggestion in 1941, the rest of the Fürst collection was to be given the Kress company in Munich for auctioning, the proceeds being used to cover the cost of setting up the Zentraldepot. There is no documentary evidence of this, however. In the same year, Fürst died in Nice, where he had fled from Opatija.

In 1986, his nephew applied to have the coin collection returned. According to the 2. Kunst- und Kulturgutbereinigungsgesetz (Second Art and Cultural Property Settlement Act), the owners of "heirless" art and cultural assets or their successors could assert their claims with the Austrian Ministry of Finance. The application was refused because at the time it was not known that a large part of the collection was in the KHM. Based on the provenance research by Herbert Haupt, in October 2000 the Art Restitution Advisory Board recommended the restitution of 386 coins, 234 silver coins and one coin made of non-precious metal from the KHM Coin Collection to Leo Fürst's heirs. The 621 coins – not 624 has erroneously stated in the Advisory Board decision – were returned in summer 2002. In that year the Ferdinandeum Innsbruck restituted four coins and the Kärntner Landesmuseum three gold coins, and in 2004 the Joanneum Graz returned on gold ducat. The coins transferred to Salzburg are deemed to have been lost since 1945.

Keywords

"Sonderauftrag Münzen"

9 June 2020

Publications about the person / institution

Beschluss des Kunstrückgabebeirats, Leo Fürst, 10.10.2000, URL: www.provenienzforschung.gv.at/beiratsbeschluesse/Fuerst_Leo_2000-10-10.pdf (3.12.2020).

Tiroler Landesmuseen, Provenienzforschung, Restitution, URL: www.tiroler-landesmuseen.at/?download=10729&ref=10677 (3.12.2020).

Universalmuseum Joanneum, Münzkabinett Schloss Eggenberg, Restituierte Objekte, An die Erben nach Leo Fürst, URL: www.museum-joanneum.at/muenzkabinett/ueber-uns/restitution/restituierte-objekte/an-die-erben-nach-leo-fuerst (3.12.2020).

N. N. (Redaktion), Münzsammlung Leo Fürst restituiert, in: Der Standard, 16.7.2002, URL: www.derstandard.at/story/1012222/muenzsammlung-leo-fuerst-restituiert (3.12.2020).

Karl Peitler, Zu den Restitutionen des Münzkabinetts am Universalmuseum Joanneum, in: Karin Leitner-Ruhe/Gudrun Danzer/Monika Binder-Krieglstein (Hg.), Restitutionsbericht 1999–2010 Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz 2010, 213–214, URL: www.museum-joanneum.at/fileadmin//user_upload/Presse/Aktuelle_Projekte/Archiv/2010/praesentation-des-re/Restitutionsbericht_01.pdf (3.12.2020).

Online-Edition der Karteien zum sogenannten Zentraldepot für beschlagnahmte Sammlungen in Wien, Sammlung L. F. im Katalog der Beschlagnahmungen, URL: www.zdk-online.org/c/171/ (3.12.2020).

Archives

BDA-Archiv, Restitutionsmaterialien, K. 35, M.1, PM Leo Fürst.

KHM-Archiv, 52/KL/1941, 105/KL/1941; XII 163; XIII 55.

OeStA/AdR, E-uReang, FLD, Zl. 10338, Leo Fürst.

Heymann, Leo

acolono — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 14:41:12 +0000

Heymann, Leo Leonhard Weidinger Sat, 02/27/2021 - 18:24

Leo Heymann

21 July 1889 Schwersenz / Swarzędz – 29 October 1964 Freiburg im Breisgau

The coin collector Leo Heymann, born in the town of Schwersenz, which with its large Jewish community was until 1918 part of the German district of Posen-Ost and in 1919 became part of Poland under the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles, moved first to Dusseldorf and then to Vienna. It is not known precisely when the moves took place. In 1924 he became Prokurist (authorized signatory) for the Gerngross department store in Mariahilferstraße and in the same year joined the Numismatische Gesellschaft (Numismatic Society) in Vienna. In 1934 he was elected to the board of administrators of Wiener Ziegelwerke AG. Even though he left the Jewish community in 1927, he was considered a Jew by the Nazis. He was able to escape persecution in March 1938, emigrating via Rotterdam to New York, where he arrived on 9 September 1938 on the SS Nieuw Amsterdam. Because he escaped early enough, he did not have to submit an asset declaration. The details of the expropriation of his assets are unknown. In July 1941 the First Director of the Kunsthistorisches Museum (KHM) in Vienna, Fritz Dworschak, contacted Otto Kolb from Department II E of the Vienna Gestapo responsible for seizures and confiscation of assets. In the letter Dworschak requested a pre-emptive right to acquire the seized coin collection, which was stored with the Gestapo and was earmarked for auction in the Dorotheum. The owner of the collection was indicated by hand as "Leo Heymann". Thereafter, twenty-six medieval and modern coins from the Heymann collection were acquired by the KHM Coin Collection. The inventory does not indicate a purchase price and it is not therefore clear whether the coins were purchased from the Gestapo or allocated to the museum.

After the war, Heymann made an application in April 1946 to the US Allied Commission for Austria. By this time he was a US citizen and lived in Miami, Florida. He claimed the loss of his apartment at Jacquingasse 13 and the pictures, carpets, library and coins in it, as well as his shares in Wiener Ziegelwerke Aktiengesellschaft in Leopoldsdorf near Vienna. Heymann moved to Locarno, Switzerland, and died in Freiburg im Breisgau on 29 October 1964. It was not until the systematic provenance research in the KHM that it was determined that the twenty-six coins in the Coin Collection came from the Heymann collection. The Vugesta ledgers list a net profit of 1,940 Reichsmark. It has been impossible to determine whether this sum referred only to the coins or to other artworks as well. It is also unclear whether Heymann's coin collection was originally larger than the twenty-six coins acquired by the KHM. At its meeting of 3 December 2002, the Art Restitution Advisory Board recommended the restitution of the coin collection to Heymann's legal successors. The heirs have not yet been identified, and the whereabouts of the remaining assets are not known.

Keywords

6 July 2020

Publications about the person / institution

Beschluss des Kunstrückgabebeirats, Leo Heymann, 3.12.2002, URL: www.provenienzforschung.gv.at/beiratsbeschluesse/Heymann_Leo_2002-12-03.pdf (3.12.2020).

Archives

KHM-Archiv, XII 4, 21/1941.

NARA, Holocaust-Era Assets, USACA - Property Control Branch, Cases and Reports Pertaining to Property Administered by the Vienna Area Command (VAC), compiled 1945-1950, PC/V/III/52 Leo Heymann, URL: www.fold3.com/image/306558657 (3.12.2020).

OeStA/AdR, E-uReang, Abwicklungsstelle der Vermögensverkehrsstelle, Vugesta-Kartei und 9 Bände Vugesta-Geschäftsbücher, Buch 7.
OeStA/AdR, E-uReang, FLD, Zl. 3237, Leo Heymann, Arthur Wohl.

Holzmair, Eduard

acolono — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 14:41:12 +0000

Holzmair, Eduard

Leonhard Weidinger Sat, 02/27/2021 - 18:28

Eduard Holzmair

4 October 1902 Vienna – 23 December 1971 Vienna

After leaving school in 1920, Eduard Holzmair worked for several years at the Anglo-Austrian Bank in Vienna, before studying German, history and art history at the University of Vienna. He completed his doctorate in 1931 with a thesis entitled "Eckehart and Tauler: a comparison", and in the same year passed the State Examination at the Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung (Institute of Austrian Historical Research). He was an intern from 1929 in the Coin Collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum (KHM) in Vienna and in 1936 he was promoted to assistant. After August Loehr left the museum and Fritz Dworschak was appointed provisional director following the annexation in March 1938, Holzmair headed the Coin Collection and was appointed curator in 1942. He never joined the NSDAP but was a member of various affiliated organizations such as the Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt (National Socialist People's Welfare), the Reichskolonialbund (Reich Colonial League) and the Reichsluftschutzbund (Reich Air Raid Protection League). During the Nazi era he was involved in drawing up lists of Polish cultural items in the Generalgouvernement, which were then to be expropriated. In his memoirs, which were published in 1971, he himself wrote that he "kept a record of the major Polish coin collections in Kraków and Warsaw as part of the general record of Polish art assets". Because of his involvement in the "Sonderauftrag Coins", he was exempt from military service for a long time and was not therefore enlisted into the Wehrmacht. The seized coin collections from several Austrian abbeys, including Klosterneuburg, Heiligenkreuz and St. Florian, earmarked for the "Führermuseum" Linz, were stored in Stift Kremsmünster. They were processed by Holzmair and Fritz Dworschak. As a curator, he had access to the KHM depot in central Vienna. In autumn 1944 he was finally enlisted in the air force, where he was in an anti-aircraft unit and for a short time in US captivity.

After the war, he was involved in negotiations for the restitution of coin collections acquired by the Coin Collection under the Nazis. In the case of Alfred Menzile's collection, he persuaded the heirs to "donate" some selected items to the Coin Collection, in return helping to obtain export authorization for the remainder of the collection. In 1949 he worked in the Central Collecting Point in Munich investigating the remaining coin collections of Austrian provenance destined for Linz. That year he became head of the Bundessammlung für Medaillen, Münzen und Geldzeichen (Federal Collection of Medals, Coins and Monetary Tokens), as the KHM Coin Cabinet was called at the time, and habilitated in numismatics and the medieval and early modern history of money. In 1952 he became director of the Federal Collection and in 1959 extraordinary university professor. In 1966 he was appointed First Director of the KHM, until his retirement a year later. For many years he was a member of the board of the Österreichische Numismatische Gesellschaft and was its vice-president from 1950 to 1968.

Keywords

"Sonderauftrag Münzen"

28 June 2020

Publications about the person / institution

Bernhard Koch, Univ.-Prof. HR Dr. Eduard Holzmair, in: Numismatische Zeitschrift 87 (1971), 3–4.

Isabel Röskau-Rydel, NS-Kunst- und Kulturpolitik in Krakau unter deutscher Besatzung am Beispiel von Museen und Ausstellungen, in: Tanja Baensch/Kristina Kratz-Kessemeier/Dorothee Wimmer (Hg.), Museen im Nationalsozialismus: Akteure – Orte – Politik, Köln-Weimar-Wien 2016, 191–202.

Publications by the person / institution

Eduard Holzmair, Eckehart und Tauler: ein Vergleich, Dissertation Universität Wien 1931.
Eduard Holzmair, Medicina in nummis: Katalog der Sammlung Dr. Josef Brettauer, Wien 1937.
Eduard Holzmair, Münzkunst in Österreich, Wien 1948.
Eduard Holzmair, Das wiedergefundene Inventar der Münzsammlung Ferdinands I, Wien 1961.
Eduard Holzmair, Meine Tätigkeit in der Bundessammlung von Medaillen, Münzen und Geldzeichen in den Jahren 1929–1967, in: Numismatische Zeitschrift 87 (1971), 8–15.

Archives

KHM-Archiv, Direktionsakten: 9-30/KL/1941, 28/KL/1941, 44/ED/1943, 33/ED/1945; 61/KORR/1939_40, 117/KORR/1939_40, 203/KORR/1939_40, 238/KORR/1939_40, 39/KORR/1944, 40/KORR/1944, 1/KORR/1943_44, 2/KORR/1943_44, 3/KORR/1943_44, 6/KORR/1943_44, 7/KORR/1943_44, 28/KORR/1945; Personalakten: III 1841, PA Eduard Holzmair; III 2089, Parte; III 2295, Biographie Holzmair.

OeStA/AdR, UWK, BMU, Personalakten, K. 03/063 Eduard Holzmair .
OeStA/AdR, ZNsZ, Gauakt 213.984, Eduard Holzmair.

GND: 1065211457

VIAF: 66592081

Wikidata: Q1288771

Loehr, August Octavian

acolono — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 14:41:12 +0000

Loehr, August Octavian

Leonhard Weidinger Thu, 04/01/2021 - 15:49

August Loehr

31 March 1882 Vienna – 11 July 1965 Vienna

August Loehr studied history and geography at the universities of Vienna and Heidelberg, obtaining his doctorate in 1905 with a work on Danube shipping until the end of the fourteenth century. That same year he became an ordinary member and librarian in the Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung (Institute of Austrian Historical Research) and an ordinary member of the Österreichisches Institut (Austria Institute) in Rome. In 1906 he obtained a position as a researcher in the imperial coin collection in Vienna and became head of the collection in 1913. Apart from his work in the k. k. Kunsthistorisches Hofmuseum he was an expert in coin finds in monument preservation and studied in the Faculty of Law in Vienna, obtaining a doctorate in law in 1911. In 1929 he was awarded an honorary professorship in numismatics and the history of money at the University of Vienna. In summer 1938, as a "Mischling 2nd class" according to the Nazi definition he asked to retire as had been suggested to him by the authorities. He was no longer allowed to work as an honorary professor but was able to continue to carry out research and to publish and, from 1943, to use his office at the Kunsthistorisches Museum (KHM) again.

Immediately after the liberation of Vienna, he was appointed First Director of the KHM on 16 April 1945. In 1946 he founded the Museum österreichischer Kultur (Museum of Austrian Culture) as a department of the KHM in the Neue Burg and also taught museology at the University of Vienna. As a victim of Nazi persecution, in 1945 Loehr was appointed chairman of the Special Commission to Examine the Political Past of Public Servants of the Kunsthistorisches Museum (Senate No. 7 at the Staatsamt für Volksaufklärung, Unterricht und Erziehung und für Kultusangelegenheiten (State Office for Popular Enlightenment, Schools, Education and Cultural Affairs)) and vice-chairman of Senate No. 9 responsible for denazification in the Albertina, Österreichische Galerie, Museum für Volkskunde (Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art) and Museum für Völkerkunde (Museum of Ethnology). Under the Prohibition Act of 8 May 1945, 118 of the 343 employees of the museum – seven women and 111 men – were required to register on account of the Nazi past. In many cases the Special Commission recommended their continued employment because they had not been politically involved and their work was required for reconstruction. As First Director, Loehr was also responsible for the designation of objects subject to registration under the Vermögensentziehungsanmeldeverordnung (Asset Expropriation Registration Regulation). Although he gave a written assurance to the Ministry of Education that the KHM would register all objects subject to restitution and return them as quickly as possible, many objects were not registered, including the assets of the Teutonic Order or a fortepiano belonging to Frida Gerngross and her daughter Maria Gerngross, both of whom were murdered during the Shoah. He also suggested that in some cases the former owners now living abroad should "donate" some of their collections to the museum in return for export authorization from the Federal Monuments Authority for their remaining artworks. In 1949 he was appointed director general of the kulturhistorische Sammlungen des Bundes (Federal Cultural History Collections) before retiring at the end of that year, although he continued to lecture in numismatics and the history of money at the University of Vienna until 1954.

Keywords

24 June 2020

Publications about the person / institution

Erwin M. Auer, DDr. August O. Loehr (31. März 1882 – 11. Juli 1965), Wien 1982.

Erwin M. Auer, Loehr, August Ritter von, in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 15, Berlin 1987, 44–45.

Fritz Fellner/Doris A. Corradini, Österreichische Geschichtswissenschaft im 20. Jahrhundert. Ein biographisch-bibliographisches Lexikon, Wien-Köln-Weimar 2006.

Eduard Holzmair, Nachruf auf August Loehr, in: Numismatische Zeitschrift 81 (1965), 68–75.

Andreas Huber, Rückkehr erwünscht. Im Nationalsozialismus aus "politischen" Gründen vertriebene Lehrende der Universität Wien, Wien 2016.

N. N., August Loehr, kMI 1933, wM 1945, in: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Hg.), Gedenkbuch für die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus an der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, URL: www.oeaw.ac.at/gedenkbuch/personen/i-p/august-loehr/ (3.12.2020).

Publications by the person / institution

August Loehr, Beiträge zur Geschichte des mittelalterlichen Donauhandels, in: Oberbayrisches Archiv 60 (1916), 155–262.
August Loehr, Die Münzen- und Medaillensammlungen des Erzherzogs Franz Ferdinand von Österreich-Este, Wien 1918.
August Loehr, Geldwesen, Wien 1920/1923.
August Loehr, Die niederländische Medaille des 17. Jahrhunderts, Wien 1921.
August Loehr, Die Medaille in Österreich, Wien 1933.
August Loehr, Führer durch die Ausstellung der Bundessammlung von Medaillen, Münzen und Geldzeichen, Wien 1935.
August Loehr, Frühe Formen von Wertpapieren, Wien 1937.
August Loehr, Numismatik und Geldgeschichte, Wien 1944.
August Loehr, Österreichische Geldgeschichte, Wien 1946.
August Loehr, Entwicklung von Wertpapieren und Geldzeichen, Wien 1952.
August Loehr, Musealprobleme, Wien 1954.
August Loehr, Mitteilung der Weistümer-Kommission, Wien 1955.
August Loehr, Geschichte und Aufgabe der österreichischen Museen, Wien 1957.

Archives

KHM-Archiv, Direktionsakten: 84/ED/1943, 58/ED/1944, 27/ED/1945, 5/ED/1947; Personalia: III 1031, Nachtr. PA Loehr; III 2302, Biographie Loehr; III 2115 Parte Loehr.

OeStA/AdR, UWK, BMU, Personalakt August Loehr.

GND: 118728792

VIAF: 67493511

Wikidata: Q765124

Nadler, Richard

acolono — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 14:38:06 +0000

Nadler, Richard Leonhard Weidinger Thu, 04/01/2021 - 15:56

Richard Nadler

1910 Großgerungs, Lower Austria – date and place of death unknown

Apart from studying at the University of Vienna to be a teacher of Greek and Latin, Richard Nadler worked part-time as a research assistant in the Coin Collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. After passing the first teaching examination in Latin in autumn 1938, he applied to the Vienna School Board for a position as a teacher. He was employed from October to December 1938 in the Staatliches Erziehungsheim (state approved school) Hacking before returning to the museum, where he worked as a researcher in the Coin Collection and was involved with the salvaging of art and cultural objects. In September 1940 he was enlisted as non-commissioned clerk in the Wehrmacht. He was captured by the British but released in October 1945. He was officially dismissed from the museum on 8 August 1945 as an "illegal Nazi". In a letter to the Austrian government in autumn 1945 he asked to be removed from the registered list of former Nazis, stating that he had been a member of the SA only for two weeks in 1933 and had registered for the SA again and sought membership of the NSDAP after the annexation only in order to obtain a position as a teacher; he had never been a member of the Party. In 1946, Sonderkommission 1. Instanz, Senat 7, allowed Nadler's claim that he had never been an "illegal". As he had taken the teaching examination during his time in the museum without obtaining a doctorate or conducting research, however, he was dismissed with effect from the end of February 1946. He lived later in Krems an der Donau, where he was a contracted teacher at the Bundesgymnasium.

Keywords

6 January 2019

Archives

KHM-Archiv, III 1178, PA Nadler.

OeStA/AdR, UWK, BMU, Personalakten, Richard Nadler.
OeStA/AdR, ZNsZ, Gauakt 89434, Richard Nadler.

WStLA, Gauakten, A1-'Gauakten', Personalakten des Gaues Wien, Richard Nadler.