Arthur Schütz

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the German physician and numismatist with a similar name, see Artur Schütz (1915–2001).

Arthur Waldemar contactor (pseudonym: Tristan Busch; born January 13 ^{. Jul} / 25. January  1880 ^{. Greg} in Saint Petersburg , † 9 February 1960 in Vienna ) was an Austrian engineer and writer who primarily as the author of pit dogs became known .

Life

Schütz was born as the son of the Austrian Consul General in Saint Petersburg and became a specialist in belt and drive technology and developed the Pulvis couplings . In 1904 he founded an office in Vienna for this activity and later also published the specialist journal Belt Technology .

The coverage of an earthquake in the Neue Freie Presse caused him to go under the pseudonym Dr. Ing. Erich R. v. Winkler to write a letter with technical explanations, which promptly appeared as a letter to the editor on November 18, 1911. This is considered to be the hour of birth of the mine dog, as he stated in his letter to the editor that a “ mine dog ” in his laboratory “gave striking signs of great unrest” in his laboratory before the approaching earthquake.

As a result, he wrote numerous other pit dogs that made him known. In 1931, Jahoda & Siegel , the publisher of the works of Karl Kraus , published his book Der Grubenhund , which summarized his activities in this regard.

In the First World War he last served with the rank of Rittmeister as head of the defense censorship against Russia . He then enlarged his office, gaining an international reputation for himself through modern advertising methods . In 1938 he had to emigrate from Austria. At the time of the Second World War he lived in England and was interned as an " enemy alien ". He used his experience with the secret services in the two wars in the book Unmasked Secret Service (1946), which later appeared under the name of Major Kwaplitschka . He returned to Vienna in 1949 and continued working in his office, the company still exists today. But he did not write any more pit dogs.

Publications

• The pit dog. A cultural satire. Jahoda & Siegel, Vienna 1931
  • With an introduction by Friedrich Torberg . Frick, Vienna 1953
  • The pit dog. Experiment with the truth. Edited and introduced by Walter Hömberg . Fischer, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-88927-159-6
• Tristan Busch: Unmasked Secret Service. Secretinism. Foreword by Wickham Steed. Pegasus-Verlag, Zurich 1946
• Tristan Busch: We don't talk about that. Purchase, Vienna 1951

literature

• Otto F. Beer : Where the pit dog barked . In: The time . No. 24, June 11, 1953
• Wilhelm Sternfeld & Eva Tiedemann: German Exile Literature 1933–1945. A bio bibliography. Schneider, Heidelberg / Darmstadt, 1962

Web links

• Literature by and about Arthur Schütz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Walter Hömberg : On the trail of the secret - The pit dog breeder. Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 13, 2016, accessed on May 16, 2016 .