M. Neumann

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M. Neumann department store at Kärntner Strasse 19 in Vienna (around 1900)

M. Neumann was a Viennese clothing store . The main office was at Kärntner Straße 19 in the 1st district .

history

The company was founded in 1845 by Moritz Neumann († December 24, 1895), a Jewish entrepreneur, probably originally from Warasdin in Croatia . The company was entered in the Vienna Commercial Register in 1884 as a sole proprietorship . Neumann was married to Katharina Oblatt († July 10, 1894), together they had their sons Philipp († March 9, 1899), Josef († December 7, 1934) and Julius († March 11, 1923) as well as their daughter Johanna. Johanna Neumann married Salomon Kohn on May 23, 1880 († May 9, 1852 in Kolin), who was himself a co-owner of the men's clothing company "Heilmann Kohn & Son" and was a purveyor to the court. Philipp Neumann became an authorized signatory and at the beginning of June 1885 became a partner with independent representation rights . In 1890 Josef Neumann was also registered as a partner. After the death of Moritz Neumann at the age of 74, the youngest, Julius Neumann, joined the company on February 4, 1895 as a partner. When Philipp Neumann died four years later at the age of 43, his two brothers Josef and Julius continued to run the company.

Advertisement from M. Neumann (1906)

M. Neumann was mainly a clothing store for men. It became successful and in 1902 employed 220 employees and 400 to 500 workers. In addition to the main branch at Kärntner Strasse 19, there was another one at Mariahilfer Strasse . In the course of time, further branches were opened in Budapest , Agram , Arad , Debrezin , Fiume , Grosswardein , Kosice , Sarajevo , Timisoara , Trieste and even abroad in Belgrade and Sofia . The high clientele included members of the imperial family Archduke Stephan and Archduke Josef , the Princess of Bavaria , Count Chorinsky and Baron Gudenus as well as officers, professors and commoners. On May 2, 1901, the Neumann brothers submitted their request for the title of imperial and royal purveyor to the Obersthofmeisteramt , which was soon approved.

After the First World War , Franz Carl Neumann became shareholders in 1920, Stefan Philipp Neumann on February 24, 1924 and Peter Neumann in 1927, all of whom were presumably grandsons of the founder. Franz Carl Neumann left on August 23, 1932, the company was managed by Stefan Philipp Neumann and Peter Neumann until September 16, 1938. With the annexation of Austria , the systematic persecution of the Jewish population in the country began. The company was "aryanized" and Hermann Berger was appointed as acting administrator.

Head office at Kärntner Strasse 19

M. Neumann's main department store at Kärntner Strasse 19 in Vienna's 1st district was an important Art Nouveau building . It was built according to designs by Otto Wagner in the years 1895-96, the building permit was granted to Fideikommiss Heinrich Freiherrn von Gudenus. The building had a height of four floors, in which on the ground floor and the first and second floors 10 sales rooms and numerous adjoining rooms, including a "foreign salon", in which visitors could do their correspondence, were accommodated. The 3rd and 4th floors were used for apartments, including for the Neumann family. The premises were equipped with electricity, 1000 light bulbs provided light. The facade was decorated with ceramics from the Hungarian Zsolnay porcelain factory . Some renovations were carried out in the interwar period, including the cladding of the lower floors behind glass.

The building was damaged in World War II and demolished in 1949. The architect Carl Appel built a new building for M. Neumann, the facade of which was modified in 1986 by the architect Rudolf Vorderegger. The Steffl department store now stands on the site of the old Neumann department store .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Family grave Neumann Zentralfriedhof Gate 1 7/1
  2. ↑ a b Obersthofmeisteramt 1902 12 / N / 1.
  3. ^ Vienna City and State Archives Commercial Register E 20/38, Ges 30/179 and Ges 31/107
  4. ↑ Andreas Lehne. Viennese department stores 1865-1914 . Franz Deuticke, Vienna. 1990. ISBN 3-7005-4488-X . P. 166

literature

  • Catharina Christ: Jewish k. and k. Purveyors to the court in the textile industry with a branch in Vienna from 1870 to 1938 . Dipl.-Arb., Vienna: Universität, 2000. pp. 96–98.
  • Joseph Schwaighofer: On the history of the Viennese department store. In: Competitions. Architecture journal. Vol. 32, No. 267/268, February / March 2008, ISSN  1015-4477 , pp. 36-41.

Web links

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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 22.9 ″  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 18.1 ″  E