Leopold Hawelka

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Leopold Hawelka (born April 11, 1911 in Kautendorf (now part of Staatz ) in Lower Austria ; † December 29, 2011 in Vienna ) was an Austrian cafetier , founder and owner of the Viennese Café Hawelka .

Life

Leopold Hawelka's father, whose ancestors came from Bohemia and Moravia , was a shoemaker in Mistelbach , where Leopold spent his childhood and youth. In the parish church he took violin lessons from the choir master. After graduating from community school, he moved to Vienna in 1925, where he trained as a waiter in the Paul Deierl restaurant in Babenbergerstraße and went to Bad Gastein for seasonal years ( as a wine waiter at the Grand Hotel Gasteinerhof in Bad Gastein ) and Hofgastein.

When he returned to Deierl as a waiter around 1933 , he met Josefine Danzberger (1913-2005), who was two years younger than Leopold Hawelka, who had been working as a cashier in the restaurant . The butcher's daughter, who comes from the Upper Austrian Kremsmünster and comes from a middle-class family of innkeepers, beer brewers, farmers and butchers, was described by daughter Herta in 2011 as a "warm-hearted, extremely hard-working, clever and resolute woman, with a keen business acumen", which Leopold Hawelka told his children about that he “always wanted a capable woman to get on with”.

In 1936 the two married at Josefine's instigation and two days later they leased the Kaffee Alt Wien at Bäckerstraße  9. Since the couple did not have an apartment, they both lived in the coffee room. Although they were initially predicted to fail, the café developed so well that they wanted to buy the place three years later; however, the purchase price was too high for them.

In search of a cheaper alternative, Leopold Hawelka applied as an "aryanization candidate" for Café Gross (Tuchlauben 19), but was not accepted. (One of the competitors was Erwin Zauner, who then took over Café Landtmann after the war .) Instead, the Hawelka couple soon had the opportunity to run the Karl L. coffeehouse not too far from Café Alt Wien (often called Café Ludwig, by Herta Hawelka as Café Ludwig Carl ) to buy cheaply. The in Dorotheergasse located 6-8 decorated in Art Nouveau style restaurant, consisting of one large room and a "Chambre separee" (today storeroom), went out, which was founded in 1906 Chatham bar out, because of their booth by the Viennese t Je-' aime bar . In fact, the Café Ludwig (Karl) stood for “ Aryanization ” because the Jewish owner disappeared without a trace a few weeks after the annexation of Austria . On May 10, 1939, the Viennese "Housing Office" set up collective apartments for Jews who had been resettled in the Dorotheergasse 6–8 building under the previous name. When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, the Hawelkas closed the café again. In May 1940, Leopold Hawelka was drafted into the Wehrmacht for military service, which he survived unscathed as a horse cleaner and cook: "In war one must not be ambitious."

While everything around was in ruins, the couple's bar remained undamaged, so that they were able to reopen it in September 1945 - now as the Café Hawelka, which later became legendary . The replacement coffee was initially made on a provisional cannon stove with a stove pipe through the window directly onto the street. To be able to heat the stove, Hawelka went on foot to the Lainzer Tiergarten once or twice a week for months and collected wood with a backpack and two bags.

In the early post-war years, the Hawelka audience consisted of retirees, dealers from the nearby Dorotheum and former aristocrats who had to leave their homeland. The Hawelkas supplied their establishment with fig coffee , alcohol and cigarettes through surreptitious traffickers . Leopold Hawelka took care of the guests well into old age, received them personally, assigned them a place and said goodbye to them again. He not only made sure that his two children, who grew up in the restaurant, greeted the guests in a friendly manner and did not disturb them, but also that gentlemen did not address women. Such were banned locally from him.

The coffee house soon became a meeting place for artists, writers and their friends. Hawelka liked to paint and collect art herself. He bought pictures from his guests, which he hung up in the pub, and he is said to have inconspicuously slipped some artists twenty schillings so that they could buy a coffee in the pub.

His wife Josefine, who took care of finances and administrative matters such as bookkeeping, offered her Bohemian Buchteln daily from 10 p.m. until she passed away on March 22, 2005 at the age of 91. With her, Leopold Hawelka had the daughter Herta (* 1939; tourist guide in Vienna) and the son Günter (* 1940), who continues the family business together with his two sons Amir and Michael. Until recently, the old cafetier was in his café for a few hours almost every morning and was “still our general manager. When he's in the house, he's the boss ”, as his“ grandson Michael [left] no doubt about the senior's claim to leadership in spring [2011] ”. He was not very open to changes and modernizations in his coffeehouse (“The coffee wouldn't be better if the bar were more modern.”), And he hated the 2010 smoking ban in Hawelka too, which was imposed by the tobacco law Nevertheless, instructions to put ashtrays on the tables over and over again. "'When papa is around, we'll make him happy, smiles Günther, as soon as he leaves, we'll put the ashtrays away again.'"

Leopold Hawelka was no longer able to take part in the celebration of his 100th birthday in spring 2011; he died on December 29, 2011 at the age of 101.

He was buried next to his wife in the Heiligenstadt cemetery (section A, group M, number 27) in Vienna.

Grave of Leopold Hawelka

literature

  • Sonja Moser: The Hawelka. History & legend. (Ed. By the Hawelka family.) Pichler, Vienna / Graz / Klagenfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-85431-500-1 .

Awards

  • 1991: At the age of 80, Leopold Hawelka was awarded the title of Commercial Councilor.
  • 1989: Silver Medal of Honor for Special Services from the Chamber of Commerce.
  • 1999: Vienna Tourism Prize
  • 2000: Gold Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria .
  • April 2011, on his 100th birthday:
    • Golden City Hall Man of the City of Vienna.
    • "Golden Chamber Medal" of the Chamber of Commerce and
    • "Golden Coffee Maker", which is awarded by the coffee maker industry for special services to the Viennese coffee house.
    • Special post stamp from the Austrian Post: Gastronomy with tradition - Café Hawelka worth EUR 0.62.
  • 2011: Golden coat of arms of the town of Mistelbach in recognition of his life's work and his homeland to Mistelbach.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Herta Hawelka: ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: The 100-year-old Leopold Hawelka - a well-known and always recognized "institution". ) (PDF at reisegourmet.at; undated; 18 kB) .2. January 2012.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.reisegourmet.at
  2. ↑ a b See Leopold Hawelka. Entry in Club Carriere, undated. Retrieved December 30, 2011.
  3. ↑ Tina Walzer / Stephan Templ : Our Vienna. "Aryanization" in Austrian , Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-351-02528-9 , p. 146
  4. ↑ a b Karl L., I. Dorotheerg. 6 - Entry in the Lehmann 1939 business directory under “Coffee houses” ( online in the digital Vienna library in the town hall ). In Lehmann 1940, published in July 1940, the coffee house was no longer listed.
  5. ↑ See tradition has history on the website of Café Hawelka.
  6. ↑ See advertising poster : poster catalog 14, no. 65, ( Memento of November 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Figure Chatham-Bar (jpg) . In: Plakatkontor.de. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  7. ↑ a b c Georg Markus: Coffee house legend: Tomorrow, Monday, a Viennese institution is celebrating an unbelievably round birthday. Mr. Hawelka is 100. In: Kurier , April 10, 2011. (Article quoted in: UnArt-Forum.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this note. on Hawelka. Retrieved on January 2, 2012.)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.unart-forum.com  
  8. ^ Hermann Tertsch: Hawelka, Jan Pawel y la normalidad. (German: Hawelka, Jan Pawel und die Normalität. ) In: El País , April 5, 2005 Online (in Spanish) ( Memento of the original from March 2, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (in German translation in: "Blick auf Wien" - Archive: April 2005, website of the City of Vienna.) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / elpais.com
  9. ↑ Note: The house in which Leopold and Josefine Hawelka bought the formerly Jewish Café Ludwig (Karl), Café Hawelka since 1945 , also housed many Jews who fled or from the Nazi era Nazis were deported and murdered. See project A Letter to the Stars, list of victims in Dorotheergasse 6 ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Since "Letter to the Stars" has now been archived, the direct search now also works via this link at the DÖW (accessed on March 1, 2019)
  10. ↑ Collective apartments at Dorotheergasse 6
  11. ↑ a b Cafetier Leopold Hawelka died. In: Vienna. ORF .at, December 29, 2011. Accessed December 30, 2011.
  12. ↑ Georg Markus: Leopold Hawelka: A visit to the almost 99-year-old café animal, about whose world-famous restaurant a book has now been published. In: Kurier , November 22, 2009. (Article quoted in: Der Wiener Kaffee. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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 accordingly Instructions and then remove this note. (Ed .: CoffeeShop.de) Blogspot for Das Hawelka. Accessed on January 2, 2012.) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / derwiener.blogspot.com
  13. ↑ See certified tourist guide, here: Herta Hawelka. ( Memento of the original from February 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Entry on the website of Reisegourmet + Viennaguides. Retrieved January 2, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.reisegourmet.at
  14. ↑ a b c Leopold Hawelka is dead. The legendary cafetier died at the age of 101. In: Wiener Zeitung , 29./30. December 2011. Accessed January 2, 2012.
  15. ↑ Christoph Irrgeher: A 99-year-old in Hawelka. Leopold Hawelka is celebrating his 99th birthday, but he is still active in his coffee house. In: Wiener Zeitung , 9./11. April 2010. Retrieved on January 2, 2012.
  16. ↑ Viennese cafetier Leopold Hawelka died at the age of 100. In: derStandard.at / APA , December 29, 2011. Accessed December 30, 2011.
  17. ↑ a b c d Branche mourns the loss of a large café animal. Hawelka's demise is a great loss for the Viennese coffee house industry. In: Wiener Zeitung , December 30, 2011. Retrieved December 30, 2011.
  18. ↑ Café animal legend Leopold Hawelka honored. In: Archive report of the City Hall correspondence of the City of Vienna, April 11, 2011. Retrieved on December 30, 2011.
  19. ↑ Special post stamp gastronomy with tradition - Café Hawelka. Published on April 11, 2011. (In: Philately Shop of the Austrian Post. Accessed on September 21, 2012.)
  20. ^ Coat of arms of honor in gold for Leopold Hawelka.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Website of the municipality of Mistelbach, September 29, 2011. Accessed on January 2, 2012.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.mistelbach.at  
personal data
SURNAME Hawelka, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian restaurateur, founder and operator of Café Hawelka
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Kautendorf
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 2011
Place of death Vienna