Hermann Brandauer

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Hermann Brandauer (born May 2, 1887 in Vienna , † November 12, 1962 in Sankt Gallen (Styria) ) was an Austrian entrepreneur, composer, alpinist and paleontological collector.

Brandauer was the owner of the fountain pen factory Carl Kuhn & Co. in Vienna founded by his great-grandfather, the company was dissolved under National Socialism in 1938. He was also active as a composer, he composed pieces of music for small and large ensembles and two operas. The Brandauer Quartet is named after him. He was also a geologically interested mountaineer and paleontological collector . Brandauer's collection went to Lambert Schüssler in St. Gallen.

Publications

  • Impending rock fall in the NE wall of the Planspitze . In: Negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute 1938, pp. 147–148 online (PDF; 264 kB)
  • with Odilo Haberleitner: St. Gallen and the St. Gallen Valley Tourist Association, St. Gallen 1952.
  • The "push mass" in the area of ​​St. Gallen . In: Negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute 1955, pp. 264–267 online (PDF; 372 kB)
  • Fossil finds on the Hocheck near St. Gallen . In: Negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute 1955, p. 267 online (PDF; 235 kB)

literature

  • Helmuth Zapfe : Index Palaeontologicorum Austriae (= Catalogus fossilium Austriae issue 15). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1971, p. 19 online (PDF; 360 kB)

Remarks

  1. ^ Albrecht Rieber, Gustav Otruba :  Kuhn, Carl Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 265 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ [1]
personal data
SURNAME Brandauer, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian entrepreneur, composer, mountaineer and paleontological collector
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1962
Place of death Sankt Gallen (Styria)