Hans Sachsel

Hans Sachsel , also Hanns and Johann ( February 1, 1893 in Vienna - March 26, 1950 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian bookseller and in the interwar years owner of several bookshops in downtown Vienna .

life and work

Hans Sachsel was the son of Theodor Sachsel (1857–1935), most recently Chief Inspector of the Austrian Federal Railways, and of Mathilde, née. Taussig (1867-1921). His father came from Hohenau an der March. He had a twin sister, Margaretha, and Grete too.

Little is known about the life and work of Hans Sachsel. His wife and sister are better documented. On October 16, 1917, he acquired the F. Lang bookstore on Vienna's Kohlmarkt and from around 1919 was also the sole owner of the nearby university bookstore Wilhelm Braumüller & Sohn on Graben 21. Both shops were located in the most elegant district of Vienna's inner city, in close proximity to Vienna Hofburg . When he bought the traditional Braumüller bookstore, he had to undertake not to operate any publishing activities under its name. Because the publishing side of the house of Braumüller was sold elsewhere. Hans Sachsel nevertheless published a number of books as part of the F. Lang publishing house. In the early 1920s, Melly Bachrich designed an ex-libris for Sachsel.

He married Lola Christine, b. Munk, daughter of Alexander Munk (1852–1924), a Galician Jew, and his wife Aranka geb. Pulitzer (1862–1941), who came from Budapest. Lola Munk was born on September 14, 1900 in Vienna. The history of the F. Lang bookstore shows that a marriage pact was signed on January 8, 1920, in which the bride's father provided the amount of one million crowns as marriage goods “to ease the work involved in the marital union”. The only daughter, Maria, was born on December 25, 1920, but she died on November 2, 1924 at the age of just under four.

On September 1, 1922, Sachsel, again as sole owner, acquired the J. Deibler bookstore and second-hand bookshop, which had been in compulsory administration for many years. In 1923 the sale of the bookstore in the Secession to Johanna Deutsch was guaranteed. He owned and ran at least four bookshops in Vienna up to this point in time. Two years later his marriage failed, on May 29, 1925 the marriage pact entered in the commercial register was canceled again. The divorced wife then married Eduard Kraus (born 1894), Hans Sachsel remained unmarried.

Sachsel finally liquidated the existing corporate shell of Deibler'sche Buchhandlung on January 8, 1926 "as a result of a business union with the company Wilhelm Braumüller & Sohn". It was mentioned by Hermann Broch in a letter to the publisher Daniel Brody on September 16, 1930 , but not much emerges from this mention either. He seems to have led a very discreet life and to have conducted his business with the greatest possible restraint.

As a result of the global economic crisis , Sachsel got into financial distress. With effect from July 1, 1931, he sold the F. Lang bookstore to his authorized signatory Josef Berger and his partner Heinrich Fischer. In 1932 he also sold the Braumüller university bookstore. The buyer was the writer Guido Zernatto (1903–1943), later a non-party federal culture council in the Austro-Fascist corporate state . What Hans Sachsel did with the proceeds, where he stayed between 1933 and 1950, is unknown.

His sister first married the Hungarian Dr. Bela Csapó b. Klein (1879–1918), with whom she had two children, and later the Serbian journalist Gustav A. Geza Sil-Vara b. Silberer (1876–1938). Hans Sachsel, his sister and niece Elisabeth were able to survive the Nazi regime. His former wife and her mother, however, were arrested by the Nazi regime and deported to the Lodz ghetto on October 19, 1941 , where the mother was killed a little later. According to the memorial stone in Vienna-Mariahilf, Lola Kraus is said to have been murdered on September 9, 1942 in the Chelmno concentration camp . In the directory of Yad Vashem the divorced wife is named Lola Krischne Kraus nee. Munk led.

Sister and niece lived in the Netherlands after the end of the Nazi regime. His sister died on August 9, 1969 in Amersfoort , his niece on January 18, 1991 in Amsterdam .

Publications

Hans Sachsel was - as the owner of the publishing bookstore F. Lang - Verleger u. a. following writings.

• Melly Bachrich : The Chinese Flute , ten color etchings for Hans Bethge's adaptations of Chinese poetry, 1922
• Hugo Bettauer : The Death of a Grete and other short stories , 1926
• Alfred Kaufmann: Richard Lux ​​and his bookplate , 1927
• Fritz Kreuzig: Ave Karl Kraus , 1919 (hagiographic script about Karl Kraus )
• Fritz Kreuzig: A Moissi Breviary , 1919 (about Alexander Moissi )
• Walther Rode : Court of the Supreme Court. Speech given on June 23, 1925 before the jury court Vienna, 1925

Web links

• Georg Hupfer: On the history of the antiquarian book trade in Vienna , diploma thesis at the University of Vienna, 2003

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bernd Schuchter : The Braumüller Verlag and its time , 235 years - a publishing history, 1783-2018, Braumüller Verlag 2018
2. ^ Antiquariat Rieger: Profile of Melly (also Amelie) Bachrich 1899-1984 , accessed on January 8, 2019
3. ^ Hermann Broch : The essayistic work and letters , annotated work edition, ed. by Paul Michael Lützeler , Suhrkamp 2011, p. 100
4. ↑ Beatrice Weinmann: Gottfried Berger , bookseller and Austrians with passion, Vienna: Molden 2002. ISBN 3-85485-086-7 , pp. 30 and 32
5. ^ Hohenems Genealogy, Jewish Family Research in Vorarlberg and Tyrol: Lola Christine Munk , accessed on December 26, 2018
6. ^ Hohenems Genealogy, Jewish Family Research in Vorarlberg and Tyrol: Aranka Pulitzer , accessed on December 26, 2018
7. ↑ Yad Vashem : ARANKA MUNK , Registration of Austrian Holocaust Victims by Name, Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance, Vienna, accessed on December 26, 2018
8. ↑ Wikimedia Commons : Remembering for the Future, Lola Christine Kraus , accessed December 30, 2018
9. ↑ Yad Vashem : LOLA KRISHNE KRAUS , Lodz Names - List of the ghetto inhabitants 1940-1944, Jerusalem 1994, accessed on December 26, 2018