Hugo Sparrowhawk

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Hugo Sperber (born November 26, 1885 in Vienna ; died October 16, 1938 in Dachau concentration camp ) was a Viennese lawyer and attorney in the Austrian First Republic .

Franz Elbogen , Egon Dietrichstein and Hugo Sperber (from left to right, Vienna around 1912)

Life

Hugo Sperber was the son of the Jewish factory owner Jacob (Jakob) Sperber (died 1895) and Ottilia Etelka, née Sommer (died 1934). He attended a grammar school in Baden near Vienna and studied law at the University of Vienna from 1905 to 1908 . In December 1909 he was promoted to Dr. jur. doctorate , in May 1913 he passed the bar exam .

As a one-year volunteer with the Kaiserjäger during World War I, he enlisted in an Imperial and Royal Landwehr infantry regiment in 1915 , fought on the Russian front and was shot in the shoulder in June 1916. His brother Friedrich fell at the end of 1915. From February 1916, Hugo Sperber worked temporarily as a lawyer in Vienna, but did again - most recently as first lieutenant , awarded with a medal - military service until the end of the war.

At the age of 18, Sperber became a member of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria . In 1935, as a well-known defense lawyer , he represented members of his party in the Schutzbund trial after the fighting on February 12, 1934 in court. After the February fighting he was interrogated and detained for a few weeks. Bruno Kreisky refused a defense by Sparhawk because he was afraid of being portrayed by him as an insignificant fellow traveler in order to obtain a lesser sentence.

Hugo Sperber was like his namesake Manès Sperber , with whom he was known but not related, a supporter of the teaching of the individual psychology of Alfred Adler .

After the annexation of Austria by the National Socialist German Reich , Sperber was arrested as part of a police operation carried out in Vienna at the end of May 1938 , which was directed against "unpleasant, especially criminally charged Jews". On June 24, 1938, he was deported to the Dachau concentration camp , where he was given prisoner number 16870. Sparhawk described the situation in Dachau with the words "animals guard people". He was forced to do heavy labor and was murdered in October 1938.

Friedrich Torberg set a literary monument to the “cheerful, mocking, witty artist of life” in his collection of anecdotes, Die Tante Jolesch , published in 1975, as a prominent visitor to the Herrenhof Café and a Viennese city ​​original .

Quotes

According to Torberg, Sperber's "dream" was an advertising poster for his legal practice with the "completely untraditional" text: "Robbers, murderers, child spoilers only go to Doctor Sperber!"

In a civil process between two eighty-year-olds, which had to be postponed again and again due to the fact that the parties were unable to stand trial, Sperber called out: "Mr. Chairman, I apply for the case to be transferred to the Last Judgment ".

A Viennese public prosecutor accused an accused burglar in the criminal proceedings of being particularly audacious because he had committed a break-in in daylight. The burglar committed the second break-in in the dark at night, which is why the public prosecutor accused him of being particularly malicious in this case , whereupon Sperber called out to the public prosecutor: "Mr. Public Prosecutor, when should my client break in?"

An accused client of Sperbers gave such stupid, for him disadvantageous answers to the exoneration questions constructed for him that Sperber broke out in the "complaint": "Mr. Chairman - my client is stupid to me!"

In defending a young explosives bomber he argued with reference to Austrian clerical fascism : "Apparently he did not know that the only explosive permitted in Austria is holy water ".

Fonts

  • The lie in criminal law . Zahn and Diamant, Vienna 1927.
  • Thought of death and way of life. M. Perles, Vienna 1930.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Peter Wrabetz: Who knew Dr. Hugo Sperber? (PDF from the web archive) Österreichisches Anwaltsblatt, Volume 67, February 2005, pp. 69–71.
    Robert Sedlaczek, Melita Sedlaczek, Wolfgang Mayr: Aunt Jolesch and her time. A research. Haymon-Verlag, Innsbruck 2013, p. 29ff.
  2. ↑ a b Sparrowhawk Hugo. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 16 f. (Direct links on p. 16 , p. 17 ).
  3. ↑ Robert Sedlaczek, Melita Sedlaczek, Wolfgang Mayr: The aunt Jolesch and their time. A research. Haymon-Verlag, Innsbruck 2013, ISBN 978-3-7099-7069-0 , p. 70.
  4. ↑ Mirjana Stančić: Manès Sperber. Stroemfeld, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-86109-163-1 , p. 160.
  5. ↑ Hans-Harald Müller: Leo Perutz. Biography. Zsolnay, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-552-05416-5 , p. 244.
  6. ↑ database query under Stevemorse.org
  7. ^ Alfred Werner : Between two wars, II. In: The National Jewish monthly. May 1941, pp. 294-299 ( digitized ).
  8. ↑ Friedrich Torberg: The Aunt Jolesch or The Downfall of the Occident in Anecdotes. Dtv, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-423-01266-8 , p. 154.
  9. ↑ Friedrich Torberg: The Aunt Jolesch or The Downfall of the Occident in Anecdotes. Dtv, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-423-01266-8 , p. 166.
  10. ↑ Friedrich Torberg: The Aunt Jolesch or The Downfall of the Occident in Anecdotes. Dtv, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-423-01266-8 , p. 164.
  11. ↑ Friedrich Torberg: The Aunt Jolesch or The Downfall of the Occident in Anecdotes. Dtv, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-423-01266-8 , p. 165.
  12. ↑ Friedrich Torberg: The Aunt Jolesch or The Downfall of the Occident in Anecdotes. Dtv, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-423-01266-8 , p. 167.
personal data
SURNAME Sparrowhawk, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer and attorney in the Austrian First Republic
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1938
Place of death Dachau concentration camp