Otto Bauer (Managing Director)

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Otto von Bauer (around 1920)
Otto von Bauer around 1920
Era Veronika Bauer around 1925

Otto Ottowitsch von Bauer , (born December 9, 1878 in Windau ; † 1936 in Riga, Latvia ), was a Baltic German scientist in the field of historical bookkeeping and the administrative director / partner of the Fabergé jewelry company , which was the purveyor to the royal family. From 1898 to 1918 Otto von Bauer was the administrative director / managing director of the Fabergé jewelry company for Saint Petersburg , Moscow , Odessa , London and Kiev . In 2011, 2012 and 2016 documents and papers were auctioned between the Carl Fabergé jewelery company and Otto von Bauer in Germany, the United Kingdom and the USA. B. attested the existential importance of Otto von Bauer for the Fabergé jewelry company. A Fabergé museum has been located in Saint-Petersburg since 2013, which shows Fabergé tsarean eggs and the history of the Fabergé company in a permanent exhibition. In addition, other Fabergé works can be seen in the Emeritage, Winter Palace and the Kremlin in Moscow / Russia and in other museums around the world, such as the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in the USA.

Administrative director and partner in the Carl Fabergé jewelry company

There are in particular exhibitions / books about the Carl Fabergé jewelry company that depict the Fabergé jewelry pieces created, as well as the imperial Fabergée eggs in relation to the tsarist family and other members of the royal family, cf. u. a. the books of Géza von Habsburg. From 1898 to 1918 until the October Revolution, Otto von Bauer was the chief executive officer and partner of the Carl Fabergé jewelry company, as well as the closest employee of Carl Peter Fabergé . Carl Fabergé and Otto von Bauer successfully managed the company with the other employees. Carl Fabergé confirmed in writing to the tsar that Otto von Bauer is indispensable for the Fabergé company and should therefore not be drafted into military service. The Bauer / Faberge 'employment contracts and some other documents between them had been in the hands of Otto von Bauer's daughter since 1936, Ms. Era Veronika Kempt MA Ms. Era Veronika Kempt MA was able to save these contemporary documents through World War II. In the 90s of the last century these documents were sold between her father and Carl Fabergé in Hamburg and finally auctioned off in 2011, 2012 and 2016. Since then, the documents can be read on the Internet, cf. z. B.

Life

Training and awards

Like many Baltic Germans, Otto Bauer was a Protestant and grew up in Ventspils (Windau) until he graduated from high school. He was baptized on December 20, 1878 and conformed to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Windau, Latvia on March 21, 1893. He spoke the following languages: Russian, Latvian, German, Latin, English, French, Ukrainian and some Polish. After graduating from high school, Otto Bauer studied economics at the University of Moscow, Russia. He received his doctorate from Moscow University. He later wrote his habilitation thesis in Riga. Like Evgeny Fabergé, he has received awards for his scientific work.

The son of Carl Fabergé, Evgeny Karlovich Fabergé wrote in 1933 in a letter to his school friend Willi Engelman, Wassili Oskarovich (can be read online) a. a. the following about Otto Bauer:

Otto Bauer (Отто Оттович Бауэр, главный бухгалтер в Москве - В.С.) Kurländer, first in Moscow, then in Odessa, then again in Moscow, finally in Pbg. worked as chief accountant & later co-director, great expert on bookkeeping, wrote several works about it, received awards and commendations from different countries (countries?), was married. with e. (a) born Sanfand from Moscow, lived in Riga partly & partly on his estate near Tuckum, died in Aug. 1935 (1936?)

publication

In the Russian State Library his standard work Memoirs on the History of Bookkeeping and Monuments of the Sacred Antiquity is also available online on the international bookkeeping of 1911, but also in the USA at the University of California and around 12 other USA university bibliographies, such as B. Columbia University in the city of New York, University of Michigan, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, UC Berkeley Libraries, USA, as well as in the British Library, London, United Kingdom.

The title of his standard scientific historical work (339 pages) is: доктор Отто О. Бауэр, Мемуары к истории бухгалтерии и памятники священной старины Even today, his work is scientifically cited.

family

Otto von Bauer was born with his wife Nadezda (born May 14, 1896). San-Fand from Moscow, Russia, who was of the Russian Orthodox faith and came from a priestly family in Moscow, Russia. The Bauer couple had four children, two daughters Era and Liva (later Scholz, living in Wiesbaden) and two sons, Ilmar and Otto Bauer, the latter named after his father.

His daughter Era Veronika, b. Bauer was born in Saint-Petersburg and with her he changed poems throughout his life, see also the book Vivian - Poems from the Heart . The other three children were born in Riga, Latvia, when the family moved from Saint Petersburg in 1918 because of the October Revolution.

Recognition by the last Russian tsar of the Romanov dynasty, Nicholas II

Otto von Bauer was raised to the nobility by the last Russian tsar Nicholas II for his services in Russia. In the course of the First World War, the tsar refrained from engaging Otto von Bauer with him for military service in 1914, since he was indispensable for the Saint Petersburg company Fabergé.

October Revolution and move from Saint-Petersburg to Riga, Latvia

With the "collapse of the Romanov dynasty" and the October Revolution of 1917/1918, the famous days of the Fabergé jewelry company in Saint Petersburg, Russia came to an end. This also ended the activities of Dr Otto von Bauer and Fabergé in Saint Petersburg. During the October Revolution, Fabergé and the Otto Bauer family left Petrograd, Saint Petersburg, Russia. The daughter of the Bauer couple, Era Veronika, MA was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. While von Bauer and his family stayed not far from Saint-Petersburg, Russia near Riga, Latvia, Fabergé traveled on to Lausanne, Switzerland. The so-called Baltic Germans often belonged to the upper class in Riga, Latvia.

Scientific work

Otto von Bauer acquired an estate near Kandau , the "Hof Mudupe", near Riga in the Tukums district . a. a large library for his academic work, where he lived with his family and staff. Von Bauer wrote u. a. his habilitation in economics on bookkeeping in Latvia, which he sent to a friend in Switzerland for review and which did not get back to him in Riga because of the Second World War. Unfortunately, many of his scientific writings were lost due to the war.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://de.rbth.com/articles/2012/07/04/deutschbaltische_kultur_eigenstaendig_und_multikulturell_14616
  2. ↑ https://lot-tissimo.com/de/i/4523318%20//lot-tissimo.com/de/i/4523318
  3. ↑ https://de.rbth.com/longreads/faberge_de/
  4. ↑ https://lot-tissimo.com/de/i/4523318%20//lot-tissimo.com/de/i/4523318
  5. ↑ https://www.icollector.com/item.aspx?i=13267014
  6. ↑ https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-us/auction-catalogues/international-autograph-auctions/catalogue-id-in310041/lot-02ac8ff1-b85a-456c-af0b-a63400f0921b
  7. ↑ http://www.icollector.com/Karl-Faberge_i13267014
  8. ↑ https://lot-tissimo.com/de/i/4523318 http://www.icollector.com/Karl-Faberge_i13267014
  9. ↑ https://lot-tissimo.com/de/i/4523318
  10. ↑ quoted from: http://skurlov.blogspot.com/2011/12/1933.html
  11. ↑ https://dlib.rsl.ru/viewer/01003776286#?page=1
  12. ↑ https://www.worldcat.org/title/memuary-k-istorii-bukhgalterii-i-pamiatniki-sviashchennoi-stariny/oclc/11895900
  13. ↑ http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do;jsessionid=18D2393CF5E04FE308D35CD67A3E12B9?tabs=moreTab&ct=display&fn=search&doc=BLL01000229457&indx=1&recIds=BLL01000229457&recIdxs=0&elementId=0&renderMode=poppedOut&displayMode=full&frbrVersion=&query=any % 2Ccontains% 2Cotto + bauer + 1911 & search_scope = LSCOP-ALL & dscnt = 0 & scp.scps = scope% 3A% 28BLCONTENT% 29 & vl (2084770704UI0) = any & vid = BLVU1 & institution = BL & tab = local_tab & vl (201911 & 200) = 15536 ​​db0034 = otto71
  14. ↑ https://www.twirpx.com/file/1789141/
  15. ↑ https://disser.spbu.ru/files/disser2/1301/disser/bPD1jcWypJ.pdf
  16. ↑ Further photos of her, her husband Otto von Bauer and their four children are z. B. Contained in the book "Vivian" poems from the heart
  17. ↑ https://lot-tissimo.com/de/i/4523318
  18. ↑ http://www.icollector.com/Karl-Faberge_i13267014
personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bauer, Otto Ottowitsch from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baltic German manager
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Ventspils , Latvia
DATE OF DEATH 1936
Place of death Riga , Latvia