Julius Pupp

Julius Gabriel Pupp (born March 24, 1870 in Karlsbad ; † November 2, 1936 there ) was a Bohemian hotelier and until 1936 president of Grandhotel Pupp AG in Karlsbad in Czechoslovakia .

Life

Julius Pupp was a member of the Pupp hotelier family, who had lived in the Bohemian town of Karlovy Vary for five generations and founded the Grand Hotel Pupp, which still exists today and was owned by the family until 1945 and was expropriated in favor of Czechoslovakia by the Beneš decrees .

He was the great-great-grandson of the confectioner Johann Georg Pupp (1743–1810) and his wife Franziska, née Mitterbacher, and a grandson of the pewter founder Heinrich Pupp (1813–1854). The confectioner Anton Heinrich Vinzenz Pupp (1841–1907) was his father and Maria Katharina nee Mattoni (1830–1910), a sister of the industrialist Heinrich von Mattoni (1830–1910), was his mother. Julius Pupp was the nephew of the hotel owner Julius Pupp (1844–1902), who united the family estates and with his brothers Anton Pupp (1841–1907) and Heinrich Pupp (1850–1931) founded the company “Gebrüder Pupp”, which in 1892 became a stock corporation was converted.

Pupp graduated from the commercial academy in Prague , received further training at the Swiss Bank Corporation in Basel, became secretary at the Grand Hotel in Territel near Montreux and in 1896 took over the management of the restaurant at the Grand Hotel Pupp in Karlsbad. In 1903 he became a member of the general management, from 1908 he was head of the hotel, which was expanded with a concert hall and its own orchestra, and from 1926 he was President of Hotel Pupp Aktiengesellschaft. Under his management, the Hotel Pupp in Karlovy Vary acquired the reputation of a luxury hotel of international standing. Julius Pupp was a member of the board of directors of the ceramic works in Neurohlau ( Nová Role ), the supervisory board of the Bohemian Escompte Bank and chairman of the child protection association, which ran an orphanage in Schlackenwerth ( Ostrov nad Ohří ).

literature

• Josef Weinmann, Egerländer Biographical Lexicon with selected people from the former government district of Eger , Volume 2 (N – Z), Männedorf / ZH, 1987, ISBN 3-922808-12-3  - Note: The volume contains biographies with additional sources Anton Heinrich Pupp (1841–1864), master pewter and co-founder of the hotel company "Gebrüder Pupp"; Heinrich Pupp (1813–1864), tin caster; Johann Georg Pupp (* 1773 in Weltrus near Schlan, † 1810); Julius Pupp (1844–1902), co-founder of "Grand Hotel Pupp AG"; Julius Pupp (1870–1936) President of "Grand Hotel Pupp AG"; Karl Heinrich Pupp (1867-1926); Leo Anton Friedrich Johann Pupp (1896-1935); Maria Katharina Pupp, née Mattoni (1843–1900); View of the Grand Hotel Pupp before 1945; a portrait of Julius Pupp (1844–1902) and Anton Heinrich Vinzenz Pupp (1841–1907) plate 10 on page 77
• Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815-1950 , Volume 8, 1983, ISBN 3-7001-2142-3
• Biographical Lexicon for the History of the Bohemian Lands , Volume 3, ed. Commissioned by the Collegium Carolinum by Ferdinand Seibt , Hans Lemberg and Helmut Slapnicka, Munich: Oldenbourg 2000, ISBN 3-486-55973-7  - Note: The volume contains the biographies of the hotelier Julius Pupp (1844–1902) and the hotelier of the same name Julius Pupp (1877–1936) on page 357
• Egerer Zeitung of January 27, 1927, Collegium Carolinum (Institute) , Munich