Johann Kremenezky

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Johann Kremenezky (also: Kremenetzky , actually Josef Josefowitsch Leibensohn ; born February 15, 1848 in Odessa , † October 25, 1934 in Vienna ) was an industrialist and Zionist .

Life

The grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery , 1st gate
(with wrong date of birth)
Kremenezky DC generator
Advertisement from Joh.Kremenezky AG (1935)

Johann Kremenezky was born in Odessa in 1848 as the son of Josef and the Feige Leibensohn, whereby in later years he used the year of birth 1850 and received approval to use the name Kremenezky .

Kremenezky had a doctorate in electrical engineering and had introduced electrical lighting in Vienna (like Emil Rathenau in Berlin). His factory Kremenezky, Mayer & Co , later Tungsram , was the largest of its kind in Europe at the time. He was one of the early Zionists and closest collaborators of Theodor Herzl , a member of the narrow action committee from 1897 to 1905. In 1901 he was the founder and until 1907 director of the Jewish National Fund . In the early days of (political) Zionism (from 1896/1897) he - in addition to Herzl - financed practically the entire organization that was being formed (e.g. the pear tree , which was often begging for money ).

On August 28, 1899, Kremenezky was also the bearer (if not the financier) of the bribe (10,000 francs as a "down payment") to Nouri Bey (Mehmet Nuri Bey, 1858–1908, Secretary General of the Turkish Foreign Ministry from 1893 until his death) in the Hotel Imperial in Vienna. Nouri Bey was supposed to get Herzl an audience with Sultan Abdul Hamid .

In the event of his untimely death, Herzl had appointed Kremenezky - alongside Moritz Reichenfeld and David Wolffsohn  - as the guardian of his children.

Honors

Street sign in Vienna-Simmering
Street sign in Tel Aviv
  • 1881: Award for an alternating current machine on the occasion of the first electronic exhibition in Paris
  • 1913: Honorary membership in the Electrotechnical Association
  • 1928: Awarded an honorary doctorate from the Vienna University of Technology
  • 1929: Appointed citizen of the City of Vienna (February 8)
  • Awarded the professional title of Commercial Councilor
  • Appointed honorary citizen of Tel Aviv
  • Appointment as honorary boy of the Jewish-Academic Association "Maccabäa"
  • 1956: Naming of Kremenetzkygasse in Vienna- Simmering (11th district)

literature

  • Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography . Volume 4. Chernivtsi 1930, p. 535. (Here date of birth October 15, 1850)
  • Viktor Schützenhofer:  Kremenezky, Johann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 3 f. ( Digitized version ). (Here date of birth October 15, 1850)
  • Mascha Hoff: Johann Kremenezky and the founding of the KKL . Lang, Frankfurt / M. u. a. 1986, ISBN 3-8204-8773-5 . (Here date of birth February 15, 1848).
  • Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. Volume 3: Ha-La. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-218-00545-0 , p. 607 (here date of birth February 15, 1850).
    Johann Kremenezky in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna (here date of birth February 15, 1850 and reference to other dates mentioned).
  • Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 2: J-R. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 749 f. (Here date of birth February 15, 1850).
  • Kurt Jäger, Friedrich Heilbronner: Lexicon of electrical engineers . 2nd Edition. VDE-Verlag, Berlin, Offenbach 2010, ISBN 978-3-8007-2903-6 (here date of birth October 15, 1850).
  • Roman Sandgruber : Dream time for millionaires. The 929 richest Viennese in 1910. Styria Premium , Graz 2013, ISBN 978-3-222-13405-0 . (Here date of birth February 15, 1848).

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ See the information based on the most secure documents:
    1.) marriage and birth certificates of Johann Kremenezky's children in the registry office of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Vienna , quoted by Mascha Hoff: Johann Kremenezky and the establishment of the KKL
    2.) Johann Kremenezky's tax files, quoted at Roman Sandgruber: dream time for millionaires. The 929 richest Viennese in 1910.
  2. ↑ Honorary doctorates from the Technical University of Vienna ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / info.zv.tuwien.ac.at
  3. ^ From the municipality of Vienna. In:  Wiener Zeitung , February 14, 1929, p. 1 (online at ANNO ). New citizens of the city of Vienna. In a confidential meeting last Friday, the Vienna City Council appointed the senior boss of the Kremenezky company, Johann Kremenezky, a citizen of the City of Vienna in recognition of his outstanding achievements in the field of lighting technology on the occasion of his 50 years of service in Vienna. ...Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz
  4. ^ The administration of the federal capital Vienna in the period from January 1, 1929 to December 31, 1931 under the mayor Karl Seitz , p. 40, digital online
  5. ^ Kremenetzkygasse in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
personal data
SURNAME Kremenezky, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kremenetzky, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian industrialist and Zionist
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Odessa
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1934
Place of death Vienna