Max silver

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Max Silber (born July 8, 1883 in Salzburg , † August 2, 1942 ibid) was an Austrian archaeologist and director of the Carolino-Augusteum Museum .

Life

Max Silber was the son of the businessman and councilor Alois Silber and grew up in a German-national environment. His grandfather Leopold Scheibl was mayor of the city of Salzburg . During his high school years he was a member of the "Secret Association Rugia". After finishing school at the Academic Gymnasium , he studied Classical Archeology , Classical Languages and Philology at the University of Vienna from 1903 to 1908 with Emil Reisch and Rudolf Egger . During his student days he was a member of the German national fraternity Bruna Sudetia . From 1910 to 1914 he worked as a librarian at the archaeological-epigraphic seminar at the University of Vienna. He completed his studies in 1915 with a dissertation “Antique lighting equipment”.

From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War, most recently as a captain, and was seriously wounded twice in the war. In 1920 he became an assistant at the Salzburg Museum Carolino Augusteum. In 1928 he was appointed curator of the local archaeological collection. On March 15, 1938, he swore the oath on "the leader of the German Reich and people". In 1933 he temporarily took over the management of the museum, but was not appointed director of the museum until April 20, 1941, the Führer’s birthday . Before that, he was in charge of the Salzburg Museum Association. In 1934 he was appointed curator for prehistoric and Roman finds in the district and city of Salzburg by the Federal Monuments Office in Vienna, and in 1937 he was appointed curator for coinage in the state of Salzburg.

During his time as director, the museum received a number of works of art that had been “captured during the upheaval” (including from a Salzburg Masonic lodge or the Jewish Ornstein / Neuwirth family). From 1940 he participated in the subdivision of Aryanized collections among Austrian museums; the collections of Albert Pollak, Oscar Bondy and Alphonse and Louis Rothschild were also distributed. Objects from monastery and church property were also confiscated; he himself operated the confiscation of works of art from the Michelbeuern and Mülln monasteries . Adolf Hitler received the painting “Der Sonntagsspaziergang” by Carl Spitzweg from museum holdings, and a hunting rifle from 1720 was dedicated to Hermann Göring . In addition to his work, he has also designed numerous special exhibitions over the years.

He left behind a rich collection of material about Roman terracottas in the Rhineland . This was the result of his study trips in 1928 and 1929 to Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium and Paris. Illness and death prevented the publication of this material during his lifetime.

Honors

Publications (selection)

  • About antique lighting equipment . Dissertation, Vienna 1914.
  • with Olivier Klose: Iuvavum. Austrian Archaeological Institute, Vienna 1929.
  • Find a Roman bronze jug in Salzburg . In: Salzburger Museumblätter 8, 1929.
  • To uncover the Roman villa on the Loiger Fields near Salzburg in 1815 . In: Salzburger Museumblätter 9, 1930.
  • The great doctor. Paracelsus in his portraits and writings . In: Salzburger Museumblätter 16, 1937.
  • Salzburg in Greater Germany . In: Salzburger Museumsblätter 17, 1938, pp. 1–3.
  • The Hercules statuette from Großglocknerstrasse . In: Annual Books of the Austrian Archaeological Institute 31, 1938.
  • Historical and cultural connections between Salzburg and Bohemia and Moravia up to the end of the Middle Ages . In: Salzburger Museumblätter 18, 1939.
  • About Hans Makart . In: Salzburger Museumblätter 19, 1940.
  • Isis representations in a Celtic-Germanic conception. A contribution to the interpretation of the "Noreia Isis" . In: Carinthia I , 1942, 132.
  • From 1932 he published the Salzburger Museumblätter .

literature

  • Karl Adrian: Museum Director Dr. Max silver . In: Salzburger Museumsblätter 21, 1942, pp. 4–6, 9–11.
  • Franz Narobe: Max Silber . In: Communications from the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies 82/83, 1942/43, p. 113ff.
  • Silver, max . In: Adolf Haslinger, Peter Mittermayer (eds.): Salzburger Kulturlexikon. Residenz Verlag, Salzburg 2001, ISBN 3-7017-1129-1 , p. 472.
  • Susanne Rolinek: "... take part in the redesign of the great German fatherland". Max Silber and the Salzburg Museum until 1942 . In: Anschluss, War & Rubble. Salzburg and its museum under National Socialism (= annual publication of the Salzburg Museum, vol. 60). Salzburg Museum, Salzburg 2018, pp. 131–143.
  • K. Ehrenfellner:  Silver, Max. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 12, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2001-2005, ISBN 3-7001-3580-7 , pp. 258 f. (Direct links on p. 258 , p. 259 ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stolpersteine ​​Salzburg: Max, Henriette & Gisela Neuwirth
personal data
SURNAME Silver, max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian archaeologist and director of the Salzburg Museum
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg
DATE OF DEATH August 2, 1942
Place of death Salzburg