Fritz Tarbuk

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Fritz Tarbuk von Sensenhorst in 1915 as a member of the Kuk Kriegsmarine

Friedrich "Fritz" Maria Tarbuk (born August 16, 1896 in Brixen , South Tyrol ; † March 1, 1976 in Kitzbühel , Tyrol ; 1904 to 1919 Tarbuk, Edler von Sensenhorst ; also: Tarbuk von Sensenhorst , Tarbuk-Sensenhorst ) was an Austrian officer , Entrepreneur and company founder of FM Tarbuk & Co.

Life

family

Tarbuk came from an originally Croatian family of "Militärgrenzern" at the military frontier , the border region of Austria to the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans, whose parent series with Ciril Tarbuk in Tušilović started (mentioned 1803-1815), and was the son of the still born there kuk Field Marshal Lieutenant Johann Tarbuk , Edler von Sensenhorst (1853–1919; grandson of the aforementioned Ciril) and Mathilde Josefa, b. Bayrhammer (1856-1926). On November 18, 1904, the family was raised to the Austrian nobility with the addition of "Edle von Sensenhorst". With the Nobility Repeal Act of April 1919, they were lost again.

Fritz Tarbuk was married to Maria, née Librowicz (born in Warsaw ). However, the marriage remained childless. He had the four brothers Karl , Hans , Robert and Felix Tarbuk and two sisters.

Military career

Tarbuk von Sensenhorst was a cadet and later an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Navy . He initially served as deputy commander on the torpedo boat SM Tb 40 in mine rescue operations, rescue of survivors of the sunken SMS Baron Gautsch , destruction of the French submarine "Curie" off Pola . In 1915 he was embarked on SMS Habsburg .

SM Torpedoboot 40 ("Alligator"), on which Fritz von Tarbuk was embarked in 1914

Battleship SMS Habsburg , Fritz von Tarbuk served here in 1915

Because Farbuntersichtigkeit he eventually became the Landwehr - artillery placed where it on the Podgora ( Gorizia ) on the Isonzo and in Galicia, most recently as captain , served.

Entrepreneurial career

After returning from captivity in Asia Minor , Tarbuk founded the car trading company FM Tarbuk & Co. in Vienna in 1920 and before the Second World War he took over the general agency for the DKW , Horch , Audi and Wanderer brands of the German Auto Union AG and SA Mathis for Austria. In the 1930s he used his social contacts to set up a car dealership with workshops in Austria and Slovakia .

During the Second World War, the large Tarbuk workshops in Vienna and Pressburg were active for the German Wehrmacht and were leaders in converting vehicles to wood gasifiers based on the patent of the Alsatian inventor Georges Imbert.

Tarbuk used his personal connections to some greats from politics, sport and art (like Franz von Papen , Hermann Göring , Hans Stuck , Willi Forst , Herbert von Karajan , Heinz Rühmann among others) to his Jewish partner Peter Pflaum as well as during the National Socialism Employees and other people, such as B. Otto Mendl, the son of the owner of the Ankerbrot Werke, to protect against persecution by the Nazi regime.

After the Second World War, his company took over the general agency for several automobile brands and from 1950 onwards built its market leadership in Austria and neighboring countries as a dealer and workshop for 48 brands of the then automobile, commercial vehicle, two-wheeled, construction machinery and the agricultural machinery industry.

Fritz Tarbuk died in 1976. He and his wife Maria are buried at the Grinzinger Friedhof (group 1, number 10) in Vienna.

After the company's founder died in 1976, the company was continued by his two nephews and his partner, and finally renamed Tarbuk AG in 1992 under Mario Seiller-Tarbuk . Until the end of the 1990s, the company, with 40 subsidiaries and over 1,000 employees, was one of Austria's major corporations.

literature

• Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume XIV. Volume 131 of the complete series. CA Starke Publishing House. Limburg (Lahn) 2003. ISSN  0435-2408

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Cf. on the naming of the brothers "Major General Johann Tarbuk , Edler von Sensenhorst" and "Major General Karl Tarbuk , Edler von Sensenhorst" in: Marcel Stein: Österreichs Generale im deutschen Heer: 1938–1945. Black / yellow - red / white / red - swastika. Biblio, Bissendorf 2002, p. 348, ISBN 3-7648-2358-5 . ( Limited preview in Google Book search.)