Library

Akademischer Verein jüdischer Mediziner in Wien

acolono — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 14:40:31 +0000

Akademischer Verein jüdischer Mediziner in Wien

Leonhard Weidinger Fri, 03/05/2021 - 20:32

Akademischer Verein jüdischer Mediziner (AVJM) in Wien

Academic Society of Jewish Medical Students in Vienna

The Akademischer Verein jüdischer Mediziner in Wien (AVJM) (Academic Society of Jewish Medical Students in Vienna) was registered on 14 July 1911 by three students, Alfred Grünspan, Siegfried Berl and Josef Krenberger, with the k. k. Statthalterei Niederösterreich (Imperial Royal Lower Austria Governor's Office) and its establishment approved on 31 August 1911 after verification of the articles of association by the relevant authorities and the police department in Vienna. The society headquarters moved several times before 1938. It was initially at Währinger Straße 13a (Anatomy Institute) in the 9th district and ended up in 1938 at Alser Straße 28, also in the 9th district. Right after it was established, the society began to build up a library, as laid down in the 1911 articles and the amended 1913 version, and organized the use of the library by its members. In 1921 the society was incorporated as the Medical Section (Zweigverein) of the Gesamtverband jüdischer Hochschüler Österreichs Judäa (Union of Jewish Students in Austria). The amended articles of association were approved by Vienna Municipal Department MA 49 on 10 May 1921. In 1924, the society changed its name to Akademischer Verein jüdischer Mediziner – (Medizinische) Sektion des Gesamtverbandes jüdischer Hochschüler Judäa and became the official representative of Jewish medical students at the university. By 1937, the society's library contained around 2,000 books. The last AVJM general meeting before the annexation took place on 16 November 1937, when Emil Katz was elected chairman, Heinrich (Hirsch) Heller first vice-chairman and Isidor Ten(n)enbaum second vice-chairman.

The AVJM was dissolved on 13 September 1938 by order of the Stillhaltekommissar für Vereine, Organisationen und Verbände (Liquidation Commissar for Societies, Organizations and Associations) appointed by the Reichskommissar für die Wiedervereinigung Österreichs mit dem Deutschen Reich (Reich Commissar for the Reunification of Austria with the German Reich) pursuant to § 3 of the Gesetz über die Überleitung und Eingliederung von Vereinen, Organisationen und Verbände (Law on the Transfer and Incorporation of Societies, Organizations and Associations) of 17 May 1938 and was deleted from the register of societies by decision of Vienna Municipal Department MA2 of 23 September 1939. At the same time the society's assets were reported by the former chairman in August 1938 and registered by the Gestapo. The list of assets included a library with around 1,000 volumes, and teaching aids such as microscopes and dissecting instruments. There is no indication of where the movable assets ended up. No temporary administrator or executor was appointed, nor is there any record of an order for the assets to be disposed of by the Vermögensverkehrsstelle (Property Transaction Office). On 19 January 1940, a final report was presented by the Stillhaltekommissar indicating that the society had been dissolved and its assets expropriated. The further whereabouts of the books are unknown. The inventory probably fell victim to the unofficial Aryanization. In 1939, the former society headquarters were taken over by the Sturmheim der SA 3/3 and the Alservorstadt local NSDAP group.

During the systematic provenance research at the Zweigbibliothek für Geschichte der Medizin der Universitätsbibliothek der Medizinischen Universität Wien (history of medicine branch of the Medical University of Vienna Library) two books belonging to the former AVJM library were discovered to have been inventoried in the library of the Department of the History of Medicine after 1938. As the society was not re-established after 1945, the two books were restituted in November 2019 to the Jewish Community of Vienna as legal successor.

Keywords

Library

Medical researcher

Nazi persecutee

Nazi asset expropriation

Walter Mentzel

18 November 2019

Publications about the person / institution

Shoshana Duizend-Jensen, Jüdische Gemeinden, Vereine, Stiftungen und Fonds. "Arisierung" und Restitution (= Veröffentlichungen der Österreichischen Historikerkommission. Vermögensentzug während der NS-Zeit sowie Rückstellungen und Entschädigungen seit 1945 in Österreich 21/2), Wien-München 2004, URL: hiko.univie.ac.at/PDF/21-2.pdf (3.12.2020).

N. N., Korrespondenzen, Wien, in: Jüdische Volksstimme, 26.7.1911, 5, URL: anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=jvs&datum=19110726&seite=5 (3.12.2020).

N. N., Kommilitonen! Jüdische Mediziner!, in: Jüdische Volksstimme, 20.9.1911, 4, URL: anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=jvs&datum=19110920&seite=4 (3.12.2020).

N. N., Der akademische Verein jüdischer Mediziner, in: Die Stimme, 24.9.1937, 8, URL: anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=dst&datum=19370924&seite=8 (3.12.2020).

N. N., Der akademische Verein jüdischer Mediziner, in: Die Stimme, 1.10.1937, 6, URL: anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=dst&datum=19371001&seite=6 (3.12.2020).

Archives

OeStA/AdR, ZNsZ, Stillhaltekommissar Wien (Stiko Wien), 31-M3, Akademischer Verein jüdischer Mediziner.

UAW, Akademischer Senat, Sonderreihe des Akademischen Senates: Vereine, Senat S, 164120 Akademischer Verein jüdischer Mediziner, 1910–1927,
UAW, Akademischer Senat, Sonderreihe des Akademischen Senates: Vereine, Senat S, 1447/1910–1911
UAW, Akademischer Senat, Sonderreihe des Akademischen Senates: Vereine, Senat S 329/1913–1914.
UAW, Akademischer Senat, Sonderreihe des Akademischen Senates: Vereine, Senat S 163.32 Akademischer Verein Jüdischer Mediziner, 1937.11.27.
UAW, Med.Fak., Dekanat, 445/38 Akademischer Verein jüdischer Mediziner – Bekanntgabe des neugewählten Ausschusses.
UAW, Rektorat, Promotionsprotokoll 1929-1941, Sign. 194 sowie Nationalien/Studienkataloge 1862–1938, Sign. 134.

WStLA, M.Abt. 119, A32, gelöschte Vereine, 229/1921, Akademischer Verein jüdischer Mediziner.

Wikidata: Q106889631

Alsberg, Max

acolono — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 14:37:56 +0000

Alsberg, Max

Leonhard Weidinger Thu, 11/19/2020 - 19:45

Max Alsberg

16 October 1877 Bonn – 11 September 1933 Samedan, Switzerland

During the Weimar Republic, the defence lawyer and legal scholar Max Alsberg, who moved to Berlin in 1906, had an office at Nollendorfplatz 1 together with Kurt Peschke, Kurt Gollnick and Lothar Welt. When, as a Jew, he was banned from working in July 1933, he escaped to Switzerland, where he committed suicide on 11 September 1933. His widow Ellinor (née Sternberg, widowed Alsberg, later Böhm, 1888–1965), who remained in Berlin until 18 February 1934 before escaping to Switzerland, appointed the Berlin asset manager Friedrich Daerneborg to represent her interests in liquidating the contents of the huge villa in the Grunewald district of Berlin and in dealing subsequently until 1941 with her many other affairs. Daerneborg drew up a 74-page list of all artworks and household objects and the large library. One part of the law library in the basement alone consisted of twenty large crates of books, which were to be shipped to Britain in 1939. While the majority of Alsberg's extensive collection of valuable sculptures, ceramics, furniture, paintings and tapestries (212 lots altogether) were auctioned in January 1934 by the auctioneer Paul Graupe, who was himself later to be persecuted, other household items were auctioned with the approval of the Devisenstelle (Foreign Exchange Office) by the Berlin auctioneers Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus and Auktionshaus Goldschmidt & Co. Excluded from this list were objects that Daerneborg himself had hitherto given to friends or employees or sold on his own account. He also sold two unidentified vehicles, a Rolls Royce and a Goliath. Ellinor Alsberg fled to Britain in 1939, her removal goods having been stored by the Berlin transporter Spedition Knauer in Basel and by N.V. Koninklijke Meubeltransport-Maatschappij De Gruijter & Co. in The Hague. In April 1941 these goods were seized in the Netherlands by the recently established Nazi Sammelverwaltung feindlicher Hausgeräte (Joint Administration of Enemy Household Appliances). With her children Renate and Klaus (later Claude G. Allen, New York) she received compensation after 1945 under the German Federal Restitution Act, which took account not of the artworks or books but merely of real property, securities and special levies. In 2007 the Restitutiecommissie der Niederlande recommended the return of a valuable eighteenth-century carpet, which had turned up in 1948 at an art dealership in Hamburg. A historical print in the library of the Österreichische Galerie acquired in 1961 by Marlborough London has the ex libris Max Alsberg, but for lack of further details the Art Restitution Advisory Board failed to recommend its restitution. The whereabouts of the auctioned and seized art and cultural objects from Max Alsberg's collection have not been clarified to date.

Keywords

Katinka Gratzer-Baumgärtner

21 November 2022

Publications about the person / institution

Beschluss des Kunstrückgabebeirats, Bibliothek der Österreichischen Galerie Belvedere, 15.5.2014, URL: www.provenienzforschung.gv.at/beiratsbeschluesse/Bibliothek_Oesterreichische_Galerie_Belvedere_2014-05-15.pdf (3.12.2020).

Restitutiecommissie, Recommendation regarding the application for the restitution of an eighteenth-century Savonnerie carpet (NK 1066), 16.4.2007, URL: www.restitutiecommissie.nl/en/recommendations/recommendation_158.html (3.12.2020).

Paul Graupe (Hg.), Kunstbesitz Prof. Max Alsberg †, Berlin – Gemälde und Kunstgewerbe aus einer bekannten süddeutschen Privatsammlung – Verschiedener Berliner Privatbesitz. Versteigerung 131, 29.–30.1.1934, Berlin 1934, URL: doi.org/10.11588/diglit.6198.

Alexander Ignor, Max Alsberg (1877–1933) "Unter den wissenschaftlich arbeitenden strafrechtlichen Praktikern weitaus an erster Stelle", in: Stefan Grundmann/Michael Kloepfer/Christoph G. Paulus (Hg.), Festschrift 200 Jahre Juristische Fakultät der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Geschichte, Gegenwart und Zukunft, Berlin 2010, 655–682.

Gerhard Jungfer, Max Alsberg. Verteidigung als ethische Mission, in: Kritische Justiz (Hg.), Streitbare Juristen. Eine andere Tradition, Baden-Baden 1988, 141–151.

Tillmann Krach, Max Alsberg (1877–1933). Der Kritizismus des Verteidigers als schöpferisches Prinzip der Wahrheitsfindung, in: Helmut Heinrichs (Hg.), Deutsche Juristen jüdischer Herkunft, München 1993, 655–666.

Simone Ladwig-Winters, Rechtsanwaltkammer Berlin (Hg.), Anwalt ohne Recht. Das Schicksal jüdischer Anwälte in Berlin nach 1933, Berlin 2007.

Curt Riess, Der Mann in der schwarzen Robe. Das Leben des Strafverteidigers Max Alsberg, Hamburg 1965.

Jürgen Taschke (Hg.), Max Alsberg (1877–1933) (= Schriftenreihe Deutsche Strafverteidiger e. V. 40), Baden-Baden 2013.

Publications by the person / institution

Max Alsberg, Justizirrtum und Wiederaufnahme, Berlin 1913.
Max Alsberg, Der Prozeß des Sokrates im Lichte moderner Jurisprudenz und Psychologie, Mannheim 1926.
Max Alsberg, Große Prozesse der Weltgeschichte, Berlin 1928.
Max Alsberg, Drama: Voruntersuchung, Berlin 1930.
Max Alsberg, Philosophie der Verteidigung, Mannheim-Berlin-Leipzig 1930.
Max Alsberg (Hg.), Zeitschrift für die gesamte Strafrechtswissenschaft, Kriminalistische Monatshefte.

Archives

Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv Potsdam/Vermögensverwertungsstelle des Oberfinanzpräsidenten Berlin-Brandenburg, Aktenmaterial zu Ellinor Alsberg, geb. Sternberg, Rep. 36A II 595, 596; Rep. 36A Nr. D324, W385, S. 2/3, 4/5, Bericht über die Interessenvertretung und Vermögensverwaltung in den Jahren 1934–1941 vom 5.11.1941.

Bundesamt für zentrale Dienste und offene Vermögensfragen, Berlin, Ref. B1.

Deutsches Biographisches Archiv (DBA), II 22,246-255; III 12,76-108; 1032,170.

Jüdisches Biographisches Archiv (JBA), I 90,306-309; II 19,341-369.

LAB, Wiedergutmachungsakten, B Rep. 025 (A - B) - Wiedergutmachungsämter von Berlin [Buchstabengruppe A - B], 1 WGA 644/49, 4 WGA 821/50, 4 WGA 822/50, 4 WGA 823-826, 1 WGA 1090/50, 5 WGA 1182/50, 43 WGA 1835/55.

GND: 118648322

VIAF: 77109371

Wikidata: Q90131

Ankwicz-Kleehoven, Hans

Susanne Hehenberger — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 14:08:08 +0000

Ankwicz-Kleehoven, Hans Susanne Hehenberger Tue, 12/17/2024 - 12:33

Hans Ankwicz-Kleehoven

29 September 1883 Böheimkirchen – 1 October 1962 Vienna

until 1901 Kieres
until 1919 Hans Ankwicz von Kleehoven

Hans Ankwicz von Kleehoven, an art historian with a doctorate, joined the civil service as a concept trainee in the archive and library of the Imperial-Royal Ministry of Education in 1907. In 1912 he married the publicist and art critic Alexandra Sauer-Csáky von Nordendorf. In February 1915, Ankwicz von Kleehoven enlisted as a war volunteer and was assigned to the heavy field artillery regiment no. 2 and later to the infantry regiment “Hoch- und Deutschmeister” no. 4. After his deployment on the Isonzo Front in November 1915, he was transferred to the Russian theatre of war in 1916. In 1917, he worked for the regimental museum of the “Deutschmeister” in Vienna before he had to return to the front in Italy in August 1918. At the end of November 1918, Ankwicz-Kleehoven was discharged as a first lieutenant. By June 1915, he had already transferred to the Austrian Museum of Art and Industry, where he was in charge of the library and works on paper collection from 1925. He was also active as a publicist, art educator and art consultant, and was a member and co-founder of various associations such as the Austrian Exlibris Society. Ankwicz-Kleehoven was also active as an art collector.

After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich in 1938, the Chief State Librarian, who – as was recorded in his Gauakt – sympathized with the NSDAP, initially remained in office. Ankwicz-Kleehoven played a decisive role in the takeover of the Wiener Werkstätte archive by the State Museum of Decorative Arts in March and April 1939. At the end of April 1939, he was forced to retire on the basis of the decree on the reorganization of the Austrian civil service of 31 May 1938, as he was considered a “first-degree Mischling” according to the Nuremberg racial laws. While he had to give up his many years as art editor of the Wiener Zeitung, Ankwicz-Kleehoven was able to publish in the Nazi magazine Kunst dem Volke. His attempt to join the Reichsschrifttumskammer (Reich Literature Chamber) failed in 1941, and from the fall of 1942 he worked as an archivist at the Künstlerhaus.

After the end of Nazi rule, the art historian was reinstated to the civil service with effect from 27 April 1945 on the basis of Section 4, Paragraph 1 of the Law for the Restoration of the Austrian Civil Service and promoted to State Librarian General. Transferred to the Academy of Fine Arts on 11 October 1945, he was promoted to director of the library, which also included the Kupferstichkabinett. Ankwicz-Kleehoven resumed his work as art editor of the Wiener Zeitung. He also worked on his own encyclopedia of artists, which he was unable to complete. He retired on 31 December 1949, after which he devoted more time to his publishing activities and his private collection, which included hand drawings, paintings and (commercial) graphics by Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser, Otto Ledecke, Richard Teschner, Franz Wacik, Remigius Geyling, Felix Albrecht Harta, Edvard Munch and Dagobert Peche, as well as autographs, picture postcards, bookplates and books. In 1953, part of this collection was exhibited in the Österreichischen Staatsdruckerei (Austrian State Printing House) under the title Glück des Sammelns (The Happiness of Collecting). Hans Ankwicz-Kleehoven died in 1962 and bequeathed a number of items from his collection to the library of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in his will, the majority of which were auctioned by Christian Nebehay in 1964.

Keywords

4 November 2024

Publications about the person / institution

Claudia Karolyi/Alexandra Mayerhofer, Das Glück des Sammelns. Die Exlibris-Sammlung Ankwicz-Kleehoven in der ÖNB, in: Biblos. Beiträge zu Buch, Bibliothek und Schrift 46/1 (1997), 91–114.

Leonhard Weidinger, MAK-Bibliothek und Kunstblättersammlung, in: Bruno Bauer/Chrisina Köstner-Pemsel/Markus Stumpf (Hg.), NS-Provenienzforschung an österreichischen Bibliotheken. Anspruch und Wirklichkeit, Graz/Feldkirch 2011, 413–424.

Leonhard Weidinger/Rainald Franz, " …dass sich in der Sammlung auch kunstgewerbliche Objekte befunden haben." Provenienzforschung im MAK, in: Gabriele Anderl/Christoph Bazil/Eva Blimlinger/Oliver Kühschelm/Monika Mayer/Anita Stelzl-Gallian/Leonhard Weidinger (Hg.), …wesentlich mehr Fälle als angenommen. 10 Jahre Kommission für Provenienzforschung (=Schriftenreihe der Kommission für Provenienzforschung 1), Wien/Köln/Weimar 2009, 150–159.

Christian M. Nebehay, Liste 87: Jugendstil und Sezession. Originalzeichnungen und Graphik aus der Zeit 1900–1918. Aus dem Nachlaß von Hofrat Dr. Hans von Anwickz-Kleehoven Wien, nebst Beiträgen aus anderem Besitz, Mai–Juni 1964.

N. N., Glück des Sammelns, in: Arbeiterzeitung, 19.9.1953, 6, URL: anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=aze&datum=19530919&seite=6&zoom=33 (28.10.2024).

Publications by the person / institution

Auswahl:

Hans Ankwicz-Kleehoven. Die Bibliothek des Dr. Johann Cuspinian, Wien 1948.

Hans Ankwicz-Kleehoven, Staatliches Musealwesen und Kunstakademien, in: Egon Loebenstein (Hg.), 100 Jahre Unterrichtsministerium 1848–1948, Wien 1948, 355–392.

Hans Ankwicz-Kleehoven, Der Wiener Humanist Johannes Cuspinian : Gelehrter und Diplomat zur Zeit Kaiser Maximilians I., Graz u. a. 1959.

Hans Ankwicz-Kleehoven, Das Totenbildnis Kaiser Maximilians I., in: Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte 11 (1937), 59–88.

Zahlreiche Beiträge in: Österreichisches Jahrbuch für Exlibris und Gebrauchsgraphik; Österreichische Kunst, Wiener Zeitung, Neue Österreichische Biographie ab 1815, Thieme/Becker (Hg.), Allgemeine Lexikon der bildenden Künstler, usw.

Archives

MAK-Archiv, Zl. 636/1939.

ÖNB, Quellensammlung Ankwicz-Kleehoven.

OeStA/AdR, ZNsZ, Gauakt 282.944, Hans Ankwicz-Kleehoven.

OeStA/KA, Qualifikationsliste Ankwicz-Kleehoven.
OeStA/KA, Nachlass Ankwicz-Kleehoven.

UAAbKW, Personalakt Hans Ankwicz-Kleehoven.

WStLA, BG Innere Stadt, A4/1/169, Todesfallaufnahme Dr. Hans Ankwicz-Kleehoven.
WStLA, Historische Wiener Meldeunterlagen, Dr. Hans Ankwicz-Kleehoven

GND: 104304138

VIAF: 300883571

Wikidata: Q1578500

Arnstein, Alfred

acolono — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 14:40:21 +0000

Arnstein, Alfred Leonhard Weidinger Fri, 03/05/2021 - 20:59

Alfred Arnstein

26 June 1886 Vienna – 3 January 1972 London

Alfred Arnstein was born in Vienna on 26 June 1886 as the son of the lawyer Emanuel Arnstein and Regina Hahn. He married Hildegard Arnstein, née Baum, in 1920. After completing a doctorate in medicine at the University of Vienna in 1910, he was appointed deputy assistant doctor (Assistenzarztstellvertreter) in the 3rd Medical Clinic (Wilhelm Schlesinger department) at the General Hospital (AKH) in Vienna in September that year and assistant doctor (Assistenzarzt) in 1912. Apart from working at the AKH, he also gave lectures on medicine in Viennese public education institutions. During the First World War he was a military doctor with the rank Oberarzt/Regimentsarzt and received numerous medals. After the war, he continued as an assistant doctor at the AKH and in 1921 completed his specialist training in internal medicine and opened a private practice in Vienna alongside his work at the hospital. He left the AKH on 27 March 1925 and was senior physician (Primararzt) and head (Vorstand) of the tuberculosis department of the municipal nursing home at Lainz Hospital until March 1938. Arnstein did not belong to the Gesellschaft der Ärzte in Wien. After the annexation to Nazi Germany, he and his family, who lived at Ferstelgasse 4 in the 9th district, were persecuted as Jews. Having been forced to retire on 23 April 1938, he fled with his wife and their two sons Hans and Heinrich Arnstein in August 1938 to Britain and worked from 1941 as a doctor in London. In his asset declaration of July 1938, he listed a private medical library. The Arnstein family's assets were seized by the Gestapo and became the property of the Reich in accordance with the Elfte Verordnung zum Reichsbürgergesetz (Eleventh Regulation on the Reich Citizenship Law) of 25 November 1941. Prior to that, the household had been auctioned by the Dorotheum in Vienna. After 1945, Arnstein submitted two claims to the Restitution Commission at the Landesgericht für Zivilrechtssachen (provincial court for civil law matters) in Vienna regarding the Reichsfluchtsteuer (Reich Flight Tax) he had been forced to pay and his title to property at Cobenzlgasse 55 in the 19th district. The Reich Flight Tax was not refunded and the second claim ended with a settlement. Arnstein died in London in 1972.

The systematic provenance research at then Zweigbibliothek für Geschichte der Medizin an der Universitätsbibliothek der Medizinischen Universität Wien revealed a book belonging to Alfred Arnstein that had been incorporated after March 1938 in the Bibliothek der Gesellschaft der Ärzte in Wien – Billrothaus. It was restituted in 2012 to Arnstein's legal successors.

Keywords

Nazi asset expropriation

Walter Mentzel

29 May 2019

Publications about the person / institution

Bruno Bauer/Walter Mentzel, NS-Provenienzforschung an der Medizinischen Universität Wien 2011 und 2012. Restitutionen von Büchern der Bibliothek Sassenbach sowie den Privatbibliotheken von Raoul Fernand Jellinek-Mercedes und Alfred Arnstein, in: VÖB (= Mitteilungen der Vereinigung österreichischer Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare) 66 (2013) 3/4, 449–457, URL: fedora.phaidra.univie.ac.at/fedora/objects/o:309203/methods/bdef:Content/download (3.12.2020).

Renate Feikes, Emigration jüdischer Wiener Ärzte ab 1938 in die USA, speziell nach New York, 2 Bände, Dissertation Universität Wien 1999.

Todesnachricht Alfred Arnstein, in: British Medical Journal, 22.1.1972, 317.

Archives

Archiv der IKG Wien, Matriken, Geburtsbuch, 1885–1886, Alfred Arnstein.

OeStA/AdR, E-uReang, FLD, Zl. 901, Heinrich Arnstein.
OeStA/AdR, E-uReang, FLD, Zl. 4251, Alfred Arnstein.
OeStA/AdR, E-uReang, Hilfsfonds, Abgeltungsfonds 1272, Alfred Arnstein .
OeStA/AdR, E-uReang, Hilfsfonds, Abgeltungsfonds 4047, Alfred Arnstein .
OeStA/AdR, E-uReang, Hilfsfonds, Abgeltungsfonds 4812, Alfred Arnstein.
OeStA/AdR, E-uReang, VVSt, VA 24391, Alfred Arnstein.

UAW, Med. Fak., Sign. 134, Nationalien/Studienkataloge 1862–1938, Zl. 588 Alfred Arnstein (1906/07).
UAW, Med. Fak., Sign. 190, Promotionsprotokoll, 1904–1912, Zl. 1056 Alfred Arnstein (Promotion 20.4.1910).
UAW, Med. Fak., Sign. 196, Rigorosenprotokoll 1903–1930, Zl. 2 (Rigorosum: 22.4.1910).

WStLA, M.Abt. 119, A41, VEAV 739, 19. Bez., Alfred Arnstein.
WStLA, M.Abt. 202, A6, Personalakt 2. Reihe, Alfred Arnstein.

GND: 127260307

VIAF: 33015000

Wikidata: Q109352508

Bibliothek der Gesellschaft der Ärzte in Wien

acolono — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 14:39:27 +0000

Bibliothek der Gesellschaft der Ärzte in Wien Leonhard Weidinger Fri, 03/05/2021 - 21:10

Bibliothek der Gesellschaft der Ärzte in Wien

Library of the College of Physicians in Vienna

other name: Wiener medizinische Bibliothek – Billrothhaus (1939–1945)

The Gesellschaft der Ärzte in Wien (GdÄW), founded by researchers in the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna and doctors at the Allgemeines Krankenhaus (General Hospital) in Vienna in 1837, established itself in the nineteenth century as a centre of medical research. The articles of association already provided for the establishment of a library, which was installed in 1840. Most of its acquisitions came through gifts and donations, the subscriptions of the members of the GdÄW and later through the takeover of the inventories of the Allgemeines Krankenhaus Vienna department and institute libraries. As such the library grew continuously and alongside the libraries at the Josephinum (later site of the branch library for the history of medicine), the Doktoren-Kollegium and the Ärztliches Lesezimmer in the Allgemeines Krankenhaus, became the largest central medical library facility in Vienna.

After the annexation in March 1938, Jewish members of the GdÄW were forced to resign, effectively resulting in the society's dissolution and cessation of activities. One of those forced to resign was the long-standing librarian and lecturer in the history of medicine Isidor Fischer. On 22 March 1938, the Gau chairman of the NS-Ärztebund (Gau Vienna), Otto Planner-Plann, appointed Adolf Irtl, the former asset manager of the GdÄW, as temporary head of the library. Irtl had been a functionary of the GdÄW before 1938 and had joined the NSDAP on 1 March 1938. The GdÄW was in danger of dissolution under the Gesetz über die Überleitung und Eingliederung von Vereinen, Organisationen und Verbänden (Law on the Transfer and Incorporation of Societies, Organizations and Associations) in May 1938 and the corresponding regulation by the Reichsstatthalter in Austria. Until October 1938, Irtl attempted to maintain the society and library by intervening with the office of the dean of the Medical Faculty and higher-level offices. His aim was to preserve the library inventory and to re-establish the society on National Socialist principles, for which purpose he even drafted his own articles of association. The board of the Reichsärztekammer (Reich medical association) and the Liquidation Commissar finally ordered that the GdÄW assets be transferred to the Reichsärztekammer in Berlin, which would also be responsible for the library. This was followed by the dissolution of the GdÄW on 14 October 1938. The Wiener medizinische Gesellschaft was founded in February 1939 as a successor organization and the former GdÄW library integrated into it under the name Wiener medizinische Bibliothek – Billrothhaus, with Irtl as its director until 1945. The former library was thus the only library in a non-university medical society not to have been dismantled by the National Socialist regime. This was probably due to its undisputed academic significance and to the material value of the contents. The assessment of 31 March 1938 put the value of the GdÄW headquarters at Frankgasse 8 in the 9th district at 90,000 schillings and the library there at 250,000 schillings (fire insurance valuation) and it was designated as being of "inestimable value" and the "largest [non-university] German medical library". The library continued to operate from 1938 to 1945. Additions came in the form of gifts from doctors, correspondence with German libraries and the acquisition of estates, including that of the surgeon Anton Eiselsberg. In April 1939, the library obtained books from the Paracelsus library in Leipzig from Kurt Blome, representative of the Reichsärzteführer for advanced medical training. Between 1940 and 1942 it received additions through the Reichsaustauschstelle (Reich exchange) in Berlin, including books from the Senckenberg Library in Frankfurt am Main and from medical university libraries and medical facilities in Germany. After the occupation of France, it was sent French magazines by Auslandszeitungshandel GmbH in Cologne. Also in 1941 and 1942 it acquired more than three hundred books in French through Alfons Rosse, head of the press department of the Vienna Gestapo. The books probably came from seizures by the Gestapo in France.

After the liberation of Austria, the GdÄW was provisionally re-established on 10 June 1945 on the initiative of the KPÖ functionary and municipal councillor for culture and popular education Viktor Matejka with a temporary administration board. The official board was elected on 19 October 1945. Under the Vereins-Reorganisationsgesetz (Association Reorganization Law) of 31 July 1945, the society was able to operate again from 13 June 1946. The library had been moved in 1944 to a barn in Peigarten near Waidhofen an der Thaya to protect it from air raids. It was secured in 1945 and returned to its original location at Frankgasse 8 in autumn 1945. It was not until 1949 that it was released by the US occupation force and given back to the GdÄW. Until then Billrothaus was still registered as belonging to the Reichsärztekammer and was therefore considered to be German property. Most of the GdÄW library was transferred in the 1960s and above all in 1976 and 2003 in several batches to the branch library of the history of medicine, creating a central location for Vienna's documents about the history of medicine in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Keywords

Library

Medical researcher

Walter Mentzel

6 January 2019

Publications about the person / institution

Harald Albrecht/Bruno Bauer/Walter Mentzel, Josephinische Bibliothek und medizinhistorische Bestände der Universitätsbibliothek der Medizinischen Universität Wien, in: GMS Medizin – Bibliothek – Information, 12 (2012).

Peter Malina, Die Gestapo als Bücherlieferant. Vorläufige Ergebnisse der Provenienzforschung an der Universität Wien, in: Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Buchforschung (2006) 2, 30–41, URL: www.buchforschung.at/pdf/MB2006-2.pdf (3.12.2020).

Max Neuburger, Die Entwicklung des wissenschaftlichen Vereinswesens und seine Bedeutung für den medizinischen Fortschritt, in: Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift (1937) 20, 666–674.

Friedrich Ribar, Die Geschichte der Bibliothek der Gesellschaft der Ärzte in Wien 1837–1987, Wien 1990.

Karl Hermann Spitzy (Hg.), Gesellschaft der Ärzte in Wien 1837–1987, Wien 1987.

Franz Weisz, Die Geheime Staatspolizei. Staatspolizeileitstelle Wien 1938–1945. Organisation, Arbeitsweise und personale Belange, Dissertation Universität Wien 1991.

Archives

UAW, Med. Fak., Dekanat, Zl. 1.259/1937–1938.
UAW, Rektorat, Zl. 258/1941–1942, Universitätsbibliothek Wien.
UAW, Rektorat, Zl. 150/1944–1945, Bergung der Bibliothek des “Billroth-Hauses“.

WStLA, M.Abt. 119, A41, VEAV 217, 9. Bez., Gesellschaft der Ärzte in Wien.

Bibliothek Sassenbach

acolono — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 14:40:23 +0000

Bibliothek Sassenbach

Leonhard Weidinger Fri, 03/05/2021 - 21:16

Bibliothek Sassenbach

Sassenbach library

Sassenbach library was named after Johannes Sassenbach (12 October 1866 – 19 November 1940), a German trade unionist, SPD politician and co-founder of the trade union publishing and library activities. He worked intensively in favour of trade union education and in 1891was chairman of the Allgemeiner Deutscher Sattlerverein (German Saddlers' Association) and from 1902 to 1919 member of the Generalkommission der Gewerkschaften Deutschlands (General German Trade Union Commission), becoming its secretary in 1922. Between 1906 and 1921 he was secretary of the Internationale Vereinigung der Sattler und verwandter Berufe (International Federation of Saddlers' Unions), from 1923 secretary and between 1927 and 1931 secretary general of the International Trade Union Confederation. He was also a municipal councillor (1906–1915) and from 1920 to 1923 chairman of the Volkshochschule Gross-Berlin. After the abolition of the democratic rule of law by the National Socialist regime, he was arrested on 7 May 1934 for "activities endangering the state" and charged with high treason. As a publisher and journalist and the first bibliographer of trade union writings, he had a large private library, which in 1927 he gave to the Berlin local committee of the Allgemeiner Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund – ADGB (General German Trade Union Federation) as a study library. In 1931 the local committee acquired the Sassenbach library. The union assets were seized on 2 May 1933 and those of the SPD on 10 May, the day of the book burning. Among the items seized was Sassenbach's library, which was stored with the archives, catalogues and libraries of banned labour organizations in the Haus des freigewerkschaftlichen Dachverbandes Allgemeiner Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund in Berlin, now occupied by the Deutsche Arbeitsfront (German Labour Front – DAF). In January 1934 the archives of the NSDAP and DAF were also stored there. In October 1934, the library was moved with the NSDAP archives to Munich, where it remained until the end of the war. In 1947 most of the library was transferred via the Munich Central Collecting Point to the Offenbach Archival Depot (OAD), where it was probably divided up, with the result that most of the library is regarded today as lost. After the dissolution of the OAD, some of the contents ended up in the Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main (Frankfurt municipal and university library), taken over from the Hessian Ministry of Culture and Education, which had been holding them in trust. Other parts of the library went to the Federal Archives in Berlin and the library of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Bonn.

Provenance research in 2011 identified a book from the Zweigbibliothek für Geschichte der Medizin an der Universitätsbibliothek der Medizinischen Universität Wien for restitution to the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Bonn, the legal successor of the former Sassenbach library. The separatum has the ex libris "Bibliothek Sassenbach – Ortsausschuss Berlin des A.D.G.B." and a stamp "NSDAP Parteiarchiv". It is not clear how the book was acquired by the library of the Department of the History of Medicine.

Keywords

Library

Trade union

Walter Mentzel

29 May 2019

Publications about the person / institution

Bruno Bauer/Walter Mentzel, NS-Provenienzforschung an der medizinischen Universität Wien 2011 und 2012. Restitutionen von Büchern der Bibliothek Sassenbach sowie den Privatbibliotheken von Raoul Fernand Jellinek-Mercedes und Alfred Arnstein, in: VÖB (= Mitteilungen der Vereinigung österreichischer Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare) 66 (2013) 3/4, 449–457, URL: fedora.phaidra.univie.ac.at/fedora/objects/o:309203/methods/bdef:Content/download (3.12.2020).

Detlev Brunner, 2. Mai 1933 – Der Sturm auf die Gewerkschaftshäuser und das Schicksal der Gewerkschaftsbibliotheken, in: Verbrannt, geraubt, gerettet! Bücherverbrennung in Deutschland. Eine Ausstellung der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung anlässlich des 70. Jahrestages (= Veröffentlichung der Bibliothek der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung 13), Bonn 2003, 31–46, 23–30.

Heinz Roth/Karsten Linne, Searching for Lost Archives. New documentation on the pillage of trade union archives and librarys by the Deutsche Arbeitsfront (1938–1941) and on the fate of trade union documents in the postwar era, in: International Review of Social History 38 (1993), 163–207.

Jacques Schwarz, Johann Sassenbach (1866–1940), in: Günter Benser/Michael Schneider (Hg.), Bewahren – Verbreiten – Aufklären: Archivare, Bibliothekare und Sammler der Quellen der deutschsprachigen Arbeiterbewegung. Bonn-Bad Godesberg 2009, 282–286.

Rüdiger Zimmermann, Berlin – Offenbach – Washington – Bonn (mit Umwegen). Das Offenbach Archival Depot als Durchgangsstation für die Gewerkschaftsbestände der Bibliothek der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, in: Verbrannt, geraubt, gerettet! Bücherverbrennung in Deutschland. Eine Ausstellung der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung anlässlich des 70. Jahrestages (= Veröffentlichung der Bibliothek der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung 13), Bonn 2003, 31–46.

VIAF: 308213750

Bien, Erich Arthur

acolono — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 14:37:54 +0000

Bien, Erich Arthur

Leonhard Weidinger Thu, 11/19/2020 - 19:52

Erich Bien

19 December 1884 Vienna – 27 January 1940 Caerphilly, Wales

The insurance clerk and Prokurist Erich Bien obtained a doctorate in law from the University of Vienna in 1908. Because of his Jewish origins, he was dismissed from Kosmos Versicherungs AG in Vienna at the end of July 1938. He was detained for several days by the Gestapo in November 1938 and fled the following year to Britain, taking with him his artworks, probably mostly watercolours, having received export authorization from the Zentralstelle für Denkmalschutz (Central Monument Protection Authority). He died in 1940, shortly after his arrival in exile in Wales.

Five volumes of prints that Bien had apparently not been able to take with him were restituted by the University of Vienna library in 2013 to his legal successors. His ex libris stamp is also to be found in two books in the Württembergische Landesbibliothek (Württemberg State Library) in Stuttgart, and in four prints in the Österreichische Galerie library, which were acquired in 1939 and 1945 from Antiquariat und Buchhandel Deuticke in Vienna. Their restitution was recommended in 2014 and given to the Österreichische Galerie library as a gift in 2022 by the heirs of Erich Arthur Bien.

Keywords

Library

Nazi persecutee

Law

Katinka Gratzer-Baumgärtner

2 June 2022

Publications about the person / institution

Stefan Alker-Windbichler/Bruno Bauer/Markus Stumpf, NS-Provenienzforschung und Restitution an Bibliotheken, Berlin-Boston 2017.

Eintrag im ProvenienzWIKI, URL: provenienz.gbv.de/Erich_Bien_(Wien) (3.12.2020).

Restitution aus der Universitätsbibliothek Wien 2013, URL: bibliothek.univie.ac.at/provenienzforschung-restitutionen.html (3.12.2020).

Archives

BDA-Ausfuhr, Zl. 3299/39, Ausfuhransuchen 19.4.1939.

National Archives, PRO/HO 396/7/357, Moving Here Catalogue, Records of enemy aliens exempt from internment (1939-1942), ausgestellt am 24.11.1939.

OeStA/AdR, E-uReang, VVSt, VA 15533, Erich Bien.

UAW, Jur. Nat. 1902/03, Erich Bien; Jur. Rigorosenprotokoll J 13/19, Fol. 2406.

WStLA, Historische Wiener Meldeunterlagen, Meldeauskunft Erich Bien.

GND: 1192254473

VIAF: 4235156565724123500009

Wikidata: Q106878444

Brunner, Maria

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

Brunner, Maria Leonhard Weidinger Tue, 02/09/2021 - 21:44

Maria Brunner

28 May 1908 Zwettl – 1995 Zwettl

née Maria Six

Maria Brunner, who joined the NSDAP in 1941, worked from January 1944 as an assistant for the "Sonderauftrag coins". She was posted to Kremsmünster under Liselotte Seutter von Loetzen, who was responsible for the coin library. Her employment terminated with the closure of the "Sonderauftrag" at the end of June 1945.

Keywords

"Sonderauftrag Linz"

"Sonderauftrag Münzen"

Library

NSDAP membership

Susanne Hehenberger

6 January 2019

Archives

KHM-Archiv, III 186, PA Maria Brunner; 18/VK/1944, Aufnahme in den Kanzleidienst.

WStLA, Gauakten, A1-'Gauakten', Personalakten des Gaues Wien, 62.651 Maria Brunner.

Ecker, Karl

acolono — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 14:38:26 +0000

Ecker, Karl Leonhard Weidinger Thu, 04/01/2021 - 18:17

Karl Ecker

17 August 1882 Stockerau – 4 May 1959 Vienna

After studying law at the University of Vienna, Karl Ecker had theatre training at the k. k. Akademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst (Imperial Royal Academy of Music and Performing Arts) and private lessons with Burgtheater actors Ernst Arndt and Hans Siebert. He worked originally as a dramaturge and actor, from 1913 to 1917 also as director at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg under Max Grube, 1919/1920 at the Vereinigtes Deutsches Theater in Brünn / Brno under Rudolf Beer and from 1920 to 1922 at the Wanderbühne des Österreichischen Volksbildungsamtes (Travelling Theatre of the Office for Popular Education) under Friedrich Rosenthal, until he came in 1922 to the Urania in Vienna, where he was head of the administration and also deputized for the artistic director. As his influence was restricted because of financial difficulties, he left in 1934 and in 1936 became a research assistant in the National Library's Theatre Collection. He was mainly involved at the outset in exhibitions, such as the 1936 International Theatre Exhibition, and in the library, but during the Nazi era he was a member of the National Library branch of the SA dealing with the salvaging and storage of artworks and, from 1940, managing the library's administrative air raid protection agendas. It was in this connection that he was exempted from military service in 1942. Ecker's contract with the National Library ended in March 1950.

Keywords

6 January 2019

Publications by the person / institution

Karl Ecker, Die Theatersammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek in den Jahren 1932–1946, in: Joseph Gregor (Hg.), Meister und Meisterbriefe um Hermann Bahr. Aus seinen Entwürfen, Tagebüchern und seinem Briefwechsel mit Richard Strauss, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Max Reinhardt, Josef Kainz, Eleonore Duse und Anna von Mildenburg (= Museion. Veröffentlichungen der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, Neue Folge, 1. Reihe, 1), Wien 1947, 5–45.

Karl Ecker, Die Sammlung Stefan Zweig, in: Josef Stummvoll (Hg.), Die Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. Festschrift. Hrsg. zum 25jährigen Dienstjubiläum des Generaldirektors Univ.-Prof. Dr. Josef Bick, Wien 1948, 321–330.

Archives

ÖTM, NL Karl Ecker, HS_Ec5 Nachlass.

ÖNB-Archiv, PA Karl Ecker.
ÖNB-Archiv, o.Zl., 13.9.1938, o.Zl., 20.4.1942, Az. P Nr. 400, 1.4.1950, Az. P Nr. 1128, 7.11.1949, Az. P Nr. 1048, 14.10.1949, Az. P Nr. 67, 18.1.1949, Zl. ad P 67, 17.1.1949.

Fürth, Otto (von)

Leonhard Weidinger — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 20:38:41 +0000

Fürth, Otto (von)

Leonhard Weidinger Mon, 04/26/2021 - 20:14

Otto (von) Fürth

18 November 1867 Strakonice, Bohemia – 7 June 1938 Vienna

Otto von Fürth was the son of Josef Ritter von Fürth (1822–1892), a factory owner and member of the Reichsrat and the Bohemian Landtag, and Wilhelmine (1832–1904), née Forchheimer. Fürth studied natural sciences and medicine in Vienna, Prague and Berlin and was awarded his doctorate in medicine in 1894 by the Institute of Pharmacology of the University of Vienna. He then worked from 1894 to 1896 as an assistant in the Institute of Pharmacology in Prague under Franz Hofmeister, whom he followed in 1896 as assistant at the Institute of Physiological Chemistry of the University of Strasbourg. He habilitated there in 1899 in applied physiological chemistry. In 1900, he married Margarethe Grünbaum, with whom he had two children, Josef Egon and Wilhelmine. In 1905 he returned with his family to Vienna and worked as a lecturer in the Physiological Chemistry Department of the University of Vienna Institute of Physiology. In 1906 he was appointed extraordinary professor of applied medical chemistry and in May 1917 obtained the title and status of an ordinary professor. In 1929 he was made an ordinary professor and appointed to the board of the Institute of Medical Chemistry. Otto Fürth and his family were persecuted by the Nazis on account of their Jewish origins. He was suspended from office in the University of Vienna after the annexation on 18 March 1938 and was forced to retire at the end of May that year. He died in Vienna on 7 June 1938. His son Josef Egon Fürth was transported on 16 November 1938 from a collective apartment at Herminengasse 32 in the 2nd district to Dachau and murdered there on 15 March 1939. His wife Margarethe and daughter Wilhelmine lived in a collective apartment at Herminengasse 16/7 in the 2nd district until their deportation on 9 June 1942, where they were murdered on 15 June of that year.

The systematic provenance research of the former inventory of the library of the 1st Surgical Clinic, now the Universitätsbibliothek der Medizinischen Universität Wien (University Library of the Medical University of Vienna), brought to light sixty-eight books and offprints with his bookplate, handwritten name or dedications to him. Two offprints and a book by him were published as late as 1937 and 1938, respectively. The heirs of Otto Fürth are currently being sought so that the items can be restituted.

Keywords

9 November 2020

Publications about the person / institution

DÖW, Opferdatenbank des Dokumentationsarchivs des österreichischen Widerstandes, Einträge zu Margarethe und Wilhelmine Fürth, URL: www.doew.at/ (6.10.2023).

Erhard Glaser, Professor Dr. Otto Fürth – ein Siebziger, in: Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift 87 (13.11.1937) 46, 1185–1186, URL: anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno-plus?aid=wmw&datum=1937&page=1205 (3.12.2020).

Fritz Lieben, Otto von Fürth. Ein Gedenkblatt, in: Wiener klinische Wochenschrift, 18.6.1948, 376–378.

N. N., Tagesnachrichten und Notizen, in: Internationale klinische Rundschau (1899) 48, 859, URL: anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno-plus?aid=klr&datum=1899&size=45&page=877 (3.12.2020).

N. N., Tagesnachrichten und Notizen, Internationale klinische Rundschau (1905) 11, 196, URL: anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno-plus?aid=klr&datum=1905&page=220&size=45 (3.12.2020).

Publications by the person / institution

Otto Fürth, Probleme der physiologischen und pathologischen Chemie, 2 Bände, Leipzig 1912 und 1913.
Otto Fürth, Lehrbuch der physiologischen und pathologischen Chemie in 75 Vorlesungen, Leipzig 1925.

Archives

Archiv der IKG Wien, Matriken, Trauungsbuch 1900, Otto Ritter von Fürth/Margarethe von Grünbaum.

Arolson-Archiv, Inhaftierungsdokumente/Lager und Ghettos, Konzentrationslager Dachau, Individuelle Häftlings-Unterlagen – KL Dachau: Egon Fürth.

OeStA/AdR, E-uReang, VVSt, VA 9583, Otto Fürth.

UAW, Akten Sonderreihe des Akademischen Senats des Rektorats der Universitätsdirektion, S 304 Personalblätter, Senat S 304.327 Otto Fürth.
UAW, Medizinische Fakultät, Promotionsprotokoll 1890–1894, Sign. 187, Zl. 1230, Otto Fürth.
UAW, Medizinische Fakultät, Rigorosenprotokoll 1872–1894, Sign. 177, Zl. 100a, Otto Fürth.
UAW, Medizinische Fakultät, Nationalien/Studienkataloge 1862–1938, Sign. 134, Zl. 0374, Otto Fürth.
UAW, Medizinische Fakultät, Dekanat, Zl. 1019/1937-38, Otto Fürth.
UAW, Rektorat, Zl. 19/1937-38, Zl. 677/1937-38, Otto Fürth.
UAW, Senat S 305.22, Otto Fürth, Nekrolog verfasst von Fritz Lieben.

WStLA, Bundespolizeidirektion Wien, Historische Meldeunterlagen, Prominentensammlung Otto Fürth.

GND: 117540277

VIAF: 57395058

Wikidata: Q90019