Assen Hartenau

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Assen Hartenau (born January 16, 1890 in Graz , † March 15, 1965 in Vienna ), born as Assen Ludwig Alexander, Count of Hartenau , was a ministerial advisor and section head in the Austrian Ministry of Finance , responsible for national debt.

Life

Assen Ludwig Alexander, Count von Hartenau as a child
Villa Hartenau in Graz- Geidorf : birthplace

Hartenau was the son of the former Prince of Bulgaria Alexander Battenberg and the Austrian opera singer Johanna Loisinger . He spent the first years of his life in the Villa Hartenau in Graz- Geidorf . After the early death of the father, the mother moved with Assen and his sister Zwetana (1893–1935) to Vienna. By the Bulgarian state of the family were 50,000 leva granted annual pension.

Hartenau studied law at the University of Graz , received his doctorate there for Dr. jur. and entered the diplomatic service. In 1919 he became deputy head of the liquidating joint finance ministry. From 1922 to 1928 he was Austria's technical representative at the Paris Reparations Commission . Appointed Hofrat in 1931 , he headed the Department of Public Debt in the Ministry of Finance from 1932. He married Bertha Hussa-Lamos (1892–1971) in 1934 and adopted her son Wilhelm (1915–1991).

After Austria's "annexation" to Nazi Germany , Hartenau negotiated the question of national debt with the Berlin Reich Ministry of Finance as part of the " synchronization " of the finance ministry . After the end of the Second World War he was classified as "politically indifferent" and was therefore able to take over the management of the credit section in the Ministry of Finance in 1945. He played an important role in the settlement of the national debt. He also acted as State Commissioner at the National Bank . After his retirement from 1951 to 1953, he was Finance Director of Zellwolle Lenzing AG .

Hartenau's grave is located at the Döblinger Friedhof .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard von Mach: From the eventful Balkan times 1879–1918. Mittler, Berlin 1928, p. 52.
  2. ↑ Gertrude Enderle-Burcel, Michaela Follner (ed.): Servants of many masters. Documentation archive of the Austrian Resistance , Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-901142-32-0 , p. 159.
    Rudolf Neck, Adam Wandruszka , Isabella Ackerl (ed.): Protocols of the Council of Ministers of the First Republic, 1918–1938, Volume 9, Part 2 , Verlag der Österreichische Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-7046-0060-1 , p. 631.
  3. ↑ Assène Ludwig Alexander Graf von Hartenau on thepeerage.com , accessed on September 11, 2016.
  4. ^ Wolfgang Fritz : Progress and barbarism. Austria's financial administration in the Third Reich. Lit, Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-50247-6 , pp. 309f.
  5. ^ Wolfgang Fritz: Progress and barbarism. Austria's financial administration in the Third Reich. Lit, Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-50247-6 , p. 304.
  6. ↑ Who's who in Austria 1964, p. 209.
    USIS file with photo of Hartenau
personal data
SURNAME Hartenau, Assen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hartenau, Assen Ludwig Alexander Graf von (birth name); Hartenau, Arsene; Hartenau, Assènne; Hartenau, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian tax officer and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz , Styria , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1965
Place of death Vienna , Austria