Julius Pollacsek

Julius Adrian Pollacsek

Julius Adrian Pollacsek (born February 5, 1850 in Budapest , † after 1921; pseudonym: Adrian Polly ) was a German author. Julius Pollacsek wrote a. a. about the end of the Russian Empire and was spa director on Sylt .

Life

1850–1875: Budapest / Debreczin

Julius Pollacsek was born on February 5, 1850 in Budapest, the son of the merchant Moritz Pollacsek and his wife Cattarina (née Glasner). In the period up to 1871 he graduated from school and received his doctorate as Dr. phil. and was a teacher from 1871 to 1875, including 1874/75 director of the commercial secondary school in Debreczin.

1875–1877: Schleswig (city)

In 1875 he moved to Schleswig, where he married Elisabeth Tiedemann, daughter of the inspector Hinrich Tiedemann (founder of the Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesbank ) and his wife Caroline. In Schleswig, Pollacsek founded together with his partner Ed. Kanberg ran a banking and commission business and worked as an editor. During this time, his books The Book Keeper and the Manual for the Detail Goods Business were published by Meves Verlag Schleswig.

1877–1884: Hamburg

In 1877 he moved to Hamburg with his family. In addition to his daughter Elisabeth, who was born in Schleswig, he had three children: Elisabeth, Carola and Kurt. One of the four godparents at Kurt's baptism in the St. Johannis Church in Hamburg-Eppendorf was the poet Theodor Storm . In 1880 Pollacsek received German citizenship . In Hamburg he was the owner of the literary agency W. Wulf & Co. He worked for the magazine Omnibus (later Illustrierte Familienzeitung ) as the responsible editor and for the Hamburger Nachrichten . In 1884 his book Städtebilder: Hamburg was published by Caeser Schmidt-Verlag (Zurich), in which, in addition to the development of Hamburg, he also deals with cultural, infrastructural and economic aspects.

1884–1893: Westerland on Sylt

In 1884 he bought Bad Westerland on Sylt and became the spa director there. Bad Wenningstedt was added later. He had a new warm bath house built, as well as the first railway line on Sylt, privately financed by him, from Munkmarsch to Westerland (included the first part of the later island railway from List to Hörnum ). As chairman of the Association for Children's Health Centers (in which Albert Ballin also participated), he opened up Westerland for children's recreation. In his 8 years as the spa director, the annual number of visitors tripled, which was associated with a considerable economic upswing and the expansion of Westerland, especially the hotel and guesthouse capacities.

In 1893 he sold the bath to the municipality of Westerland.

In the season 1904 Pollacsek was again on Sylt operating and technical advisory board where the North Sea resort Kampen (owner was Kommerzienrat A. Lucas).

1893–1905: Berlin and Levico (Trentino-South Tyrol)

From 1893 to 1905 he lived in Berlin. From his second marriage to Gizella von Gobbi-Ruggieri, daughter of the Hungarian composer and piano professor Henri Gobbi (student and friend of Franz Liszt ), the two children Adrian and Erika emerged.

From Berlin Pollacsek worked from 1894 in Levico, Trentino-South Tyrol. There he founded his first company in 1895, the Levico-Vetriolo-Heilquellen, and became its general director. Between 1897 and 1900 he built a luxury hotel with a large thermal bath and had a 12 hectare spa park laid out by the respected garden architect Georg Zill from Berlin.

1905–1919: St. Petersburg (Russia) and exile in Sweden

From 1905 to 1917 he lived in St. Petersburg and was editor-in-chief of the St. Petersburg Political Correspondence newspaper . Under the pseudonym Dr. Adrian Polly wrote the book On Russia's Revolution and New Birth in 1906 , Russian Life in 1907 and The Revolution of the Russian Empire in 1917 (was only published in 1919). From 1914 to 1917 he was in Russian captivity.

After his escape in 1917, he spent about 2 years in exile in Sweden with General Per Hendrik Brandström, the former royal Swedish envoy in St. Petersburg.

From 1919: Berlin

The brochure Against the Common Marriage Chamber was published in 1920. On February 28, 1921, he merged his pseudonym and family name, together with his son Adrian and daughter Erika, and was now called Polly-Pollacsek.

In which year and in which place he died is not known.

Works

• The accounting clerk , ca.1876
• Manual for the detail goods business . Schleswig: Bernhard Meves, 1876.
• City images: Hamburg . Zurich: Caesar Schmidt, 1884.
• On Russia's revolution and rebirth . Leipzig: Teutonia, 1906.
• Russian life . Leipzig: Teutonia, 1907.
• The overthrow of the Russian Empire . Berlin: Baumgärtel, 1919.
• Against the common marriage room! Schkeuditz; Zurich: Verlag G. Bereiter, 1920.

Web links

• Literature by and about Julius Pollacsek in the catalog of the German National Library
• Further information (polly-pollacsek.de)