Friedrich Maximilian Schoop

Grand Hotel Dolder, around 1905

Friedrich Maximilian Schoop (* 1871 in Frauenfeld ; † 1924 in Zurich ) was a Swiss journalist and hotelier.

Life

Friedrich Maximilian Schoop was born in 1871, presumably in Frauenfeld , where his parents lived from 1863 to 1876, as the son of the art pedagogue and didactic specialist Ulrich Schoop . He became trade editor at the democratic Zurich Post and President of the Grand Hotel Dolder . His daughter Trudi reports that he was a respected and valued man in Zurich's intellectual circles.

family

He was married to Emma Olga Schoop geb. Böppli (1873-1959). She was a free-thinking, unconventional and warm-hearted woman with a strong desire for freedom and life. "Mutti Schoop" came from " Toggenburg miracle doctors. Your recipe for upbringing seems to have been the uncircumcised growth of the individual personality. "

Schoop's widow Emma Olga Schoop b. Böppli at the age of 84, 1957

The family lived on the Zürichberg , where the Dolder hotel was also located. The marriage had four children:

• Max Schoop (1902–1984)
• Trudi Schoop (1903–1999)
• Hedi Schoop (1906-1995)
• Paul Schoop (1909-1976)

The children were raised in a free atmosphere, and the parents encouraged the artistic development of their children, who later took up all artistic professions. Friedrich Maximilian Schoop died at the age of 53 in 1924 when his children were between 17 and 22 years old.

In 1933 Hedi Schoop fled Germany with her Jewish husband Friedrich Hollaender and emigrated to Hollywood . Her mother and her brothers Max and Paul followed her in 1939 or 1940 in the “voluntary emigration” (as Swiss citizens they were not endangered by the Nazis), so that the “family, sticking together like a burdock” almost completely returned to Los Angeles in 1940 at the latest was united (Trudi Schoop only rejoined the family after the death of her husband in 1951). At the time of the 1940 census, the mother and her two unmarried sons Max and Paul lived together in a rented apartment in Los Angeles at 8764 Lookout Mountain Drive, in the Hollywood Hills .

Emma Olga Schoop was 86 years old. She outlived her husband by 35 years and died in Los Angeles in 1959.

literature

• Trudi Schoop , Peggy Mitchell. Hedi Schoop (illustration): Won't you join the dance? A dancer's essay into the treatment of psychosis. Palo Alto, Calif. 1974 Excerpt: .
• Trudi Schoop, Peggy Mitchell, Hedi Schoop (illustration), Marigna Gerig (translation): Come and dance with me! : come, come on, come on, come on, come and dance with me !; an attempt to help the psychotic person through the elements of dance. Zurich 2006, excerpt . - German translation of #Schoop 1974 .
• Carl Seelig : Original characters from the Schoop family. In: Thurgauer Jahrbuch , 33rd year, 1958, pages 95–110. (e-periodica )

Footnotes

1. ↑ #Seelig 1958 , page 100, #Schoop 1974 .
2. ↑ #Seelig 1958 , page 100.
3. ↑ #Seelig 1958 , page 101.
4. ↑ ancestry.com .