Alfred Götzl

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Alfred Götzl (* 1877 in Hanover ; † 1956 in Neutral Bay , Australia) was a Jewish entrepreneur and mechanical engineer.

Life

Alfred Götzl's father Philipp Götzl had helped the industrialist Wilhelm Garvens with the establishment of the Vienna branch of the Society for Pumps and Machine Manufacture W. Garvens and managed the Austrian companies. Alfred Götzl became an engineer and achieved a leading position in this company. With the designer Felix, he recognized the importance of pumping liquids from greater depths. After Wilhelm Garven's death in 1913, his father also retired due to old age. Garven's sons took Alfred Götzl into the company as a public partner and entrusted him with the management of Austrian companies. He later became the owner of the plant.

Alfred Götzl married Ella Pick and their daughter Liselotte Margarete Götzl was born on March 27, 1914. In 1918 they acquired the villa at Wiener Hohen Warte 36 that was later to become the Austrian “ Presidential Villa ”.

In the course of Aryanization, Ernst August Herzog of Braunschweig and Lüneburg had offered 1.5 million Reichsmarks for the Austrian Garvenswerke in the summer of 1938. However, the contract was awarded in September to the large landowner and industrialist Georg Graf Schönborn-Buchheim, who hired Franz Magyar as a scientific advisor from 1941–43 . The majority of the proceeds from the forced sale of the factory and villa went to blocked accounts in favor of the Third Reich.

The Götzl family first emigrated to England, where Garve pumps were produced by the Lighthouse Works under Goetzl's direction . Ella died in Birmingham in 1946. In 1952 at the latest he emigrated to Australia, where his daughter married Rudolf Ernst, who was also from Vienna. He made a settlement with Schönborn-Buchheim.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Electrical engineering and mechanical engineering: Volume 32 (1914)
  2. ^ Sophie Lillie : What was once: Handbook of the expropriated art collections of Vienna ; Czernin, 2003, p. 347
  3. ↑ orf.at: Decision about the presidential villa
  4. ↑ http://www.profil.at/articles/0422/560/82825/der-adel-nazis-teil-2-reich-reich
  5. ^ Water and water engineering ; Institution of Water Engineers, 1942
personal data
SURNAME Götzl, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian machine builder
DATE OF BIRTH 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH 1956
Place of death Neutral Bay , Australia