Gustav and Wilhelm Löw
Gustav and Wilhelm Löw was an Austrian agricultural company based in the Weinviertel .
The brothers Gustav (September 11, 1870 in Bzenec ; † June 22, 1940 in Kensington (London) ) and Wilhelm (born March 28, 1869 in Velehrad ; † February 7, 1945 in New York ) were originally hay and grain dealers who moved 1909 from Vyškov to Angern an der March , where in 1910 they acquired the Angern manor including the castle and expanded the agriculture industry. To process the crops, they set up a beet spirit factory, a drying plant and a refinery. Over time, they continued to expand their business, so that at last they owned 48 manors in the Weinviertel, including, for example, Matzen Castle , which they acquired in 1931 from their friends, the Kinsky family , and used as their residence from then on.
expropriation
The newspaper Agrarian Post reports in its edition of November 5, 1938:
“ Extensive tax penalty for a Jewish company. The four shareholders of the spirit factory and refinery Gustav and Wilhelm Löw in Angern an der March (Niederdonau), the Jews Gustav, Wilhelm, Gertrude and Marianne Löw were sentenced to a fine of 9.6 million Reichsmarks. This extensive tax penalty was imposed because of huge personal tax evasions that the Jews mentioned were guilty of over the past few years. However, the aforementioned Löws escaped abroad. The fine will be covered by the assets remaining here and their business will be transferred to Aryan hands. "
However, the criminal tax knowledge was unlawful and unlawful, was revoked by decision of the Federal Ministry of Finance on May 4, 1948 and the restitution of the properties was initiated.
literature
- Gerhard Nowak: Jewish entrepreneurs in the Austrian - Slovak border region Angern an der March - Záhorská Ves in the 20th century , Dipl.-Arb. at the University of Vienna 2012, p27ff online
- Tina Walzer: Temporary castle lords: The Löw family in Matzen, Lower Austria at juden.at, online
Individual evidence
- ↑ Extensive tax penalty for a Jewish company. In: Agrarian Post. Non-political weekly paper for the Austrian rural population / Agrarian Post. Weekly newspaper for the East Mark rural population / Agrarian Post. Weekly paper for the rural population of the Danube and Alpine Gaue , November 5, 1938, p. 15, at the bottom, further on page 16 (online at ANNO ).