Louis Philipp Friedmann

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Mountain friends: Arthur Schnitzler, Richard Tausenau and Louis Friedmann around 1885.

Louis Philipp Friedmann (born June 29, 1861 in Paris , † April 1, 1939 in Vienna ; often called Louis Friedmann for short ) was an Austrian industrialist and alpinist .

Life

Youth, friends and family

Louis Friedmann and his brother Max came from a wealthy Jewish family . Arthur Schnitzler attributed them in his diaries to the pleasure-seeking, but also mountain-loving youth of upper-class Vienna: January 17, 1886. Souper, Sacher, Louis [Friedmann], Max [Friedmann], Suchanek, Geyer, Diener, Richard Tausenau, Valeska ... ( Diary entry).

"Louis was unusually talented in sport - a fencer of high standing, above all an alpinist with a reputation far beyond the borders of his fatherland!"

- Arthur Schnitzler : autobiography "Youth in Vienna"

The relationship with his alpine friends was later reflected in many of Schnitzler's works. In the tragic comedy Das weite Land, the hero of the play, the manufacturer Friedrich Hofreiter, is a pseudonym of Louis Friedmann.

In 1886 Louis Friedmann married Rose von Rosthorn (1864-1919), who came from the Austrian Rosthorn entrepreneurial dynasty and who also made a name for herself with mountaineering achievements. A daughter named Marie Alexandrine (* 1887) comes from this connection. Gustav Klimt immortalized Rose von Rosthorn-Friedmann in one of his most famous pictures. After her untimely death, Hugo von Hofmannsthal wrote a long obituary for the widower. The couple, respected in Viennese fin de siècle society , appear in the estates and works of playwrights, writers and artists.

alpinist

Thurwieserspitze , Zebru , Königsspitze and Cevedale
Photo by Louis Friedmann ca.1880

Louis Friedmann's remarkable mountain tours led him mostly into the Hohe Tauern , the Dolomites and the mountain group of the Ortler , which with its 3,905 m was the dominant mountain of the then Austro-Hungarian Empire .

From his numerous special inspections, only a small selection with sources is listed here:

  • 1882 Hinterer Grat (Ortler): Louis Friedmann carried out a winter ascent of the Hinterer Grat on January 7, 1882 with his guides A. Pinggera and P. Dangl.
  • 1893 Piz Mondin (Ortler group): On August 18, 1893, Louis Friedmann from Vienna and Theodor Christomannos from Meran with guide A. Kuntner from Sulden climbed the Piz Mondin from the Mondinalpe.
  • 1889 Martlgrat (Ortler): The ascent of the Marltgrat, which the Sulden leaders considered almost impossible, was carried out in 1889 by a group of five without a leader, including Ludwig Hans Schmitt, Louis Friedmann and Albrecht von Kraft.

First ascents mentioned in other articles see Großer Ödstein , Monte Vioz , Vertainspitze and Pizzo Tresero .

Friedmann belonged to the group of mountaineers with Jewish descent, such as Moritz von Kuffner , Gottfried Merzbacher and Paul Preuss , who were highly respected for their achievements before the First World War . He was all the more affected by the anti-Semitic movement in the German and Austrian Alpine Association (DuÖAV) that began in 1905, of all places, and culminated in the 1920s .

Entrepreneur

Central lubrication pump type Friedmann , manufacturer Alex Friedmann, Vienna
Gräf & Stift , where heir to the throne Franz Ferdinand and his wife were murdered in 1914
Central lubrication pump when filling with oil on the driver's cab of a steam locomotive

On February 22, 1882, Alexander Friedmann , the father of the just 21-year-old Louis Philipp, died and left him his flourishing company of the same name, which manufactured parts for steam locomotives and had become the market leader in its segment. Louis Friedmann was later also President of the automobile manufacturer Gräf & Stift . His brother Max Friedmann was also a major entrepreneur and in his Friedmann-Knoller company produced a steam -powered automobile developed by the designer Richard Knoller .

  • Friedmann-Knoller (1904)
    Max Friedmann

  • Richard Knoller steam car, 1904
    Max Friedmann

literature

  • Arthur Schnitzler : Youth in Vienna: An autobiography. Sixth Book (April 1886 to August 1887). Ed .: Theresa Nickl and Heinrich Schnitzler. Fischer paperback books, 1968, p. 223–277 ( full view at Zeno org ).
  • Louis Friedmann: The Ortler Group in The Development of the Eastern Alps, 1894, Volume 2, German and Austrian Alpine Association, excerpt p. 84 and 498 at Google Books
  • Harry Muré: Jeanne Immink. The woman who rose into the clouds Tyrolia Innsbruck 2010. pp. 92, 105, 109 and 110

Movie

  • "... just a kind of intoxication, of mountain intoxication" - Arthur Schnitzler's Bergfreunde. ( ORF series Land der Berge ), Austria, 1999, directed by Lutz Maurer

Web links

Commons : Louis Philipp Friedmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Life data of Louis Philipp Friedmann
  2. ↑ a b see web link 3sat.online: Just a kind of intoxication, of Bergrausch
  3. ↑ see web link arteHistoria
  4. ↑ see literature Louis Friedmann: Die Ortlergruppe , p. 84
  5. ↑ see literature Louis Friedmann: Die Ortlergruppe , p. 498
  6. ↑ see web link Karl Ziak : Der Mensch und die Berge , p. 138, p. 498
  7. ↑ see web link Nicholas Mailänder: Admired, tolerated, excluded / locked out
personal data
SURNAME Friedmann, Louis Philipp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friedmann, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian industrialist and mountaineer
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1939
Place of death Vienna