Hermann Black Forest
Hermann Schwarzwald (born February 13, 1871 in Czernowitz , Bukowina , † August 17, 1939 in Zurich ) was an Austrian lawyer and bank director. He was married to Eugenie Schwarzwald .
Life
Schwarzwald was born to Jewish parents (father: Salomon Schwarzwald , 1844–1929, died and buried in Baden near Vienna ) in the crown land of Bukowina and studied law at the universities of Chernivtsi and Vienna ; In 1893 he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD.
After completing his legal practice in Chernivtsi, he worked in the Austrian Ministry of Commerce in Vienna from 1899, from 1901 as secretary and from 1905 to 1915 as deputy director. In 1915 he moved to the trade policy section of the Ministry of Commerce. In 1917, Schwarzwald moved to the Ministry of Finance, where he headed the credit and currency section from 1919 to 1924.
In this office he was responsible for the League of Nations loans , balancing the budget and stabilizing the currency. Black Forest was one of the co-founders of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank as the central bank .
In 1918 he also became the deputy director of the Moravian Sugar Factory Association in Olomouc and Vienna. After his retirement he was General Councilor and President of the Anglo-Austrian-Bank in Vienna in 1924 and 1925. After that, he held board positions at various banks and industrial companies until 1929. From 1931 he was director of the Bratislava branch of Dynamit Nobel AG .
With his wife he ran literary salons in Vienna and in the Villa “Seeblick” on the Grundlsee , where numerous intellectuals met. In 1911, Black Forest was portrayed by Oskar Kokoschka .
After the “Anschluss” , Black Forest was able to flee from Austria to Switzerland in September 1938 to live with his wife. She had used a stay abroad in March to emigrate and never returned to Austria.
Fonts
- Money for Germany and Austria. Memorandum for the statesmen of Germany and Austria-Hungary on the occasion of the war in 1914 . Reisser, Vienna 1914 (printed as a manuscript).
- Currency reform and monetary deterioration . Fromme, Vienna 1913.
literature
- M. Martischnig: Black Forest Hermann. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 12, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2001–2005, ISBN 3-7001-3580-7 , p. 35.
- Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century . Volume 3: S – Z, Register. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 1246.
Individual evidence
- ^ Mr Salomon Schwarzwald […] Badener Zeitung, August 3, 1929, p. 6 middle [1]
- ↑ On the death of the senior of the Schwarzwald family […] Badener Zeitung, August 7, 1929, p. 4 middle [2]
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Black Forest, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian lawyer and bank director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 13, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chernivtsi , Bukovina |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th August 1939 |
| Place of death | Zurich |