Max Glauber

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Radio Balilla, model from 1937,
the Italian "people's receiver"

Max Glauber (born August 9, 1902 in Wilten ( Innsbruck ); † December 27, 1966 in Tavernerio , Province of Como , Italy), in Italy Massimiliano Glauber , was a South Tyrolean entrepreneur who founded one of the first factories in Italy for the production of radio sets in 1925 . His company Unda Radio experienced a heyday in the second decade of fascist rule with the production of the models “Radio Rurale” and “Radio Balilla ”, which were promoted by the fascists as propaganda instruments, after having survived a difficult period in the Great Depression from 1929 . The devices that Glauber developed in 1935 followed the example of the German people's receiver developed by the National Socialists in 1933 .

Life

Max Glauber was the only son of the Prague banker Moritz Glauber (1838–1910), whose ancestors were Jewish, and his wife, the singer Gisela von Ruttersheim (Gisa, Italian Ghisa), née Polz. The family moved to Bozen, where Max attended high school. After the death of her husband, Gisela Glauber had a summer residence built in Toblach, which still exists as a holiday home.

Glauber studied philosophy and physics in Munich from 1922 to 1925. In 1921 he converted to Catholicism. In 1926 he married Trude von Walther, a daughter of Wilhelm von Walther , a member of the Austrian and Italian parliaments, with whom he had already fallen in love at high school. The couple had three children: Lisa, Heini (1928–2017) and Hans , the founder of the Ökoinstitut in Bolzano and initiator of the “Toblach Conversations”.

In 1925 Glauber settled in Toblach and on August 22nd founded the “ Unda Società per la Fabbricazione di Apparecchi di Meccanica Fine ” (Unda, company for the production of precision mechanical devices), a workshop on the mother's estate with an initial capital of 75,000 lire . The UNDA radio factory emerged from this. In 1939, due to the Hitler-Mussolini Agreement, as an Austrian who had involuntarily become “Reichsdeutscher” after the Anschluss, he lost his right of residence and property. He took on Italian citizenship and moved the company to Como in 1940 , primarily because most of the last 200 employees in Toblach opted for Germany in autumn 1939 .

The fact that Glauber moved near the Swiss border in order to be able to evade the Green Border in the event of an impending deportation is not documented. Glauber's relatives in Prague fell victim to the Holocaust . The Italian Racial Laws , the individual decrees of which (the first of September 5, 1938) were largely similar to the provisions of the Nuremberg Laws (1935) in National Socialist Germany, put Italian citizens of Jewish faith or with Jewish ancestors increasingly in danger, interned and (after the German occupation), although the implementation of the regulations was in part lax and "Jews" were able to survive in Italy, some in hiding. Glauber could feel relatively safe as a Catholic, an Italian citizen and as the owner of a nationally important industrial company.

In September 1943, after Italy had taken the Allied side in the Cassibile armistice , the German Wehrmacht began to occupy Italy. The Glauber family survived the occupation unmolested. In May 1945 the confiscated property in Toblach was restituted.

The reorganization after the end of the war brought Glauber's company another upswing, in 1951 Glauber also began producing television sets. The need for capital causes the UNDA in difficulties, it is taken over in 1958 by the Milanese company CGE. Glauber founded Inelco SpA in 1959. In 1966 he died of a heart attack in Como, his widow Trude died in 2001 in Bozen.

In 2007 a documentary about Max Glauber was produced, with the script and direction being the responsibility of Federico Campana and Cornelia Schöpf.

See also

UNDA

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Named after the fascist youth organization of the same name, founded in 1926, which was the model of the Hitler Youth .
  2. ^ Family history. Club Antique Radio, Antique Radio Magazine, accessed September 2, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Dobbiaco holiday homes. Province of Bozen, accessed on August 26, 2018 .
  4. ↑ According to another statement 1921–1923, cf. [1]
  5. ↑ Heini Glauber , obituary, in the Dolomites , Bozen. The first name Heinrich was forcibly Italianized with Enrico.
  6. ↑ a b Storia Azienda (company history). Club Antique Radio, Antique Radio Magazine, accessed September 2, 2018 .
  7. ↑ a b c Wolfgang Strobl: Toblach Info. Municipality of Toblach, March 1, 2009, accessed on August 22, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Glauber, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Glauber, Massimiliano
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian industrialist, designer of radios and televisions
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1966
Place of death Tavernerio