Moritz von Königswarter

Moritz von Königswarter (Portrait of Theodor Mayerhofer , 1884)

Grave of Moritz von Königswarter and his wife Charlotte in the Vienna Central Cemetery

Moritz Freiherr von Königswarter (born July 16, 1837 in Vienna ; † November 14, 1893 there ) was an Austrian banker . He was a member of the Austrian mansion and a Jewish philanthropist .

Life

Königswarter became a partner in 1860 and head of the bank of his father Jonas Freiherr von Königswarter in 1872 . From 1879 to 1881 he was a member of the Board of Directors of Creditanstalt . For some time he was also the Danish consul general in Vienna and director of the northern railway as well as a member of the national debt control committee. He was also one of the co-founders of the Israelite Theological Training Institute ( Rabbi Seminary ) in Vienna ( Tempelgasse 3), which opened on October 15, 1893 (in the absence of Königswarter due to illness ).

Königswarter built and maintained the established at the 1840 Association for the promotion of handicrafts among domestic Israelites declining Jewish Lehrlingsheim in Grünentorgasse 26, Wien Alsergrund , which until its dissolution by the Nazis in 1938, existed and as Home and teaching institution in Years of its closure it housed 118 orphans. Shortly before his death, Königswarter donated 100,000 guilders to the association for the establishment and maintenance of warming rooms . Numerous other humanitarian institutions are associated with the Königswarters name, including the Israelite Institute for the Blind on the Hohe Warte and the Kaiser-Franz-Josephs Foundation .

In 1879 Königswarter was made a member of the Austrian manor house for life.

After severe suffering , Moritz von Königswarter died in his palace at Kärntner Ring 4, Vienna- Innere Stadt . According to his last will, his body was autopsied . The opening of the body by pathologist Richard Paltauf revealed, among other things, a hen's egg-sized, approximately one and a half year old glioma in the left lower lobe of the brain. Königswarter was buried on November 16, 1893 in the Vienna Central Cemetery , where he was given an honorary grave (Gate 1, Group 5b, Row 1, No. 7).

Moritz von Königswarter had been married to the well-known philanthropist Charlotte Edler von Wertheimstein (born December 2, 1841 in Vienna; † March 13, 1929 there ) since October 28, 1860 . The second born of his three sons, Hermann (1864–1915), was designated a universal heir. The assumption that the autopsy result could be the basis for the contestation of the will by the two sons who were neglected was rejected by the three brothers in unison.

literature

• Baron Moriz Königswarter. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 10501/1893, November 15, 1893, p. 5 f. (Online at ANNO ). .
• Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography. With more than 8000 biographies of well-known Jewish men and women from all times and countries, a reference work for the Jewish people and their friends . Volume III: Harishon - Lazarus . Orient Publishing House, Cernăuți 1928, p. 482.
• Friederike Hillbrand-Grill:  Königswarter, Moriz Frh. Von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 41.
• Hans Jaeger:  Königswarter (bankers). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 362 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Moriz von Königswarter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Königswarter, Moriz Ritter (1860), Freiherr von (1871) . Short biography on the website of the Austrian Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ↑ opening of Israel (itisch) -theol (ogischen) establishment in Vienna . In: Joseph Samuel Bloch : Dr. Bloch's Austrian weekly . No. 42.1893 (Xth year), October 20, 1893, ZDB -ID 2177107-8 . Vienna 1893, pp. 818–822. - Full text online .
2. ↑ Angelika Shoshana Duizend-Jensen, Historical Commission of the Republic of Austria (ed.): Jewish communities, associations, foundations and funds. "Aryanization" and restitution . Vienna 2002, p. 27. (Printed edition 2004: ISBN 3-7029-0499-9 ). - Full text online (PDF; 793 kB) ( Memento of the original dated December 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 30, 2012. 
3. ^ Neue Freie Presse : Baron Moriz Königswarter , p. 5, as well as Michaela Feurstein (-Prasser), Gerhard Milchram: Jüdisches Wien. City walks . Böhlau, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-205-99094-3 , p. 100.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Neue Freie Presse : Baron Moriz Königswarter , p. 5.
5. ^ The funeral of Baron Moriz v. Königswarter. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, No. 10502/1893, November 16, 1893, p. 2, center left. (Online at ANNO ).
6. ↑ Hedwig Abraham: Moritz Königswarter, Freiherr von . In: viennatouristguide.at , accessed on November 30, 2012.
7. ↑ October 28, 1860 (to) October 28, 1885. In:  Wiener Salonblatt , No. 41/1885 (XVIth year), November 1, 1885, p. 1. (Online at ANNO ). .
8. ↑ Königswarter, Charlotte ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: onb.ac.at , Women in Motion , January 29, 2009, accessed on March 18, 2013. 
9. ↑ Ernst August Krahl, Richard Graf Belcredi (ed.): Moravian Wappenbuch from 1888 . (Album of the coat of arms of the Moravian landed estates. The Margraviate of Moravia in terms of art history). Beheym-Verlag, Gessertshausen 1986, p. 64.
10. ^ New Free Press : Baron Moriz Königswarter , p. 6.
11. ↑ Little Chronicle. (...) Baron Moriz Königswarter. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 10503/1893, November 17, 1893, p. 5, center left. (Online at ANNO ). .