Otto Mayr (Lawyer)

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Otto Mayr , until 1918 Otto Freiherr von Mayr (born February 5, 1887 in Vienna ; † March 17, 1977 there ) was an Austrian lawyer and patron .

Life

Otto Mayr was the son of the Viennese lawyer Max Freiherr von Mayr, served as a dragoon rider during World War I , and received several medals. Otto Mayr studied law and from 1920 ran a law firm in Vienna. In 1935, Mayr was appointed first president of the Vienna Bar Association by government decree in the Austro-Fascist corporate state . He replaced the last elected President Siegfried Kantor . After the “Anschluss” of Austria in 1938, Mayr was again given a decree by the Nazi regimedismissed, but remained in a professional position as Vice President until 1944. Mayr then continued to work as a lawyer and represented the Kuffner family on the sale of the Ottakringer Brewery in April 1938. After the sale, Mayr was appointed trustee for the share of the purchase price from Hedwig Lindenthal, who was murdered in Auschwitz in 1943 .

On August 11, 1944 Otto Mayr was identified by the Vienna Gestapo and assigned to the Catholic-Conservative camp. Mayr was one of those who intervened for the Gestapo leader Karl Ebner . Ultimately, he was only saved from a people's court proceedings at the end of the war .

After the Second World War he worked as a solicitor judge at the Supreme Court and later until 1962 at the Supreme Appeals and Disciplinary Commission. From 1949 to 1971 he was chairman of the Juridisch-Politischen Leseverein Wien .

Otto Mayr was buried in the family grave at the cemetery in the Wienerwald community of Tullnerbach , where he also lived and was chairman of the Beautification Association.

Grave of the Mayr family in the cemetery of the Tullnerbach community

Musical activities

Otto Mayr put a lot of effort into Viennese music. In 1930 he was appointed to the board of directors of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde . After the war he got involved in denazification procedures for Viennese orchestral musicians. From 1946 to 1971 he was vice-president of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, and in 1972 he became president. Until 1973 he was also Vice President of the Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft. As a sponsor of young artists, he organized concert evenings in his apartment, and after the war his salon was “a meeting place for spiritual Vienna”.

When Wilhelm Furtwängler was supposed to conduct his first concert after the war in Vienna on November 16, 1947, there was a scuffle with communist demonstrators. Otto Mayr wanted to clear an alley through the crowd for the conductor and lost a tooth in the argument. When a Soviet military post fired a warning shot , Furtwängler was able to get into the music club building unnoticed in the confusion.

In 1973 Mayr founded the Association of Friends of Old and Classical Music . He was also actively involved in founding the Hugo Wolf Society .

Honorary memberships

Publications

  • Anw. Ztg. 2 (1936): The incorporation of the legal profession into the professional constitution

literature

  • Alexander Witeschnik: Making music is about trying, or, A lot of harmony with small dissonances: the history of the Vienna Philharmonic in anecdotes and stories , dtv, Munich 1969, p. 108 ff.
  • Erwin Barta: The Wiener Konzerthaus between 1945 and 1961: a study of the history of the association and the music industry, plus dissertation. Univ. Vienna 2000, Schneider, Tutzing 2001, ISBN 3-7952-1037-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Peter Wrabetz: Austrian lawyers in the past and present. Verlag Österreich, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-7046-5269-0 , p. 157.
  2. ^ Administration in transition , announcement of lectures at the Vienna Bar 1930–1950 in the Austrian State Archives , January 20, 2011.
  3. ^ Theodor Venus , Alexandra-Eileen Wenck: The deprivation of Jewish assets as part of the Gildemeester campaign. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2005, p. 280ff.
  4. ^ Thomas Franz Mang: Rescuers to save themselves: the strategy of reinsurance. Dr. Karl Ebner, Deputy Head of the State Police Headquarters Vienna, 1942-1945. University of Vienna, 1998, p. 107.
  5. ^ Peter Wrabetz: Austria's lawyers in the past and present. Verlag Österreich, Vienna 2002, p. 278.
  6. ^ Fritz Trümpi : Politized orchestras. The Vienna Philharmonic and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under National Socialism. Böhlau, Vienna 2011, ISBN 3-205-78657-2 , p. 189.
  7. ↑ Daria Razumovsky, Maria Razumovsky; Olga Razumovsky: Our farewell to our Czech homeland: Diaries 1945–1946. Böhlau, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-205-99240-7 , p. 360.
  8. ^ Kurt Dieman-Dichtl : Vienna's golden sound. Stories about the Vienna Philharmonic and their New Year's Concert. Amalthea, Vienna / Munich 1996, ISBN 3-85002-391-5 , p. 32.
  9. ↑ Herbert Haffner: Furtwängler Parthas, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-932529-45-6 , p. 372.
  10. ↑ Monika Mertl, Milan Turković: The strangest Viennese in the world. Nikolaus Harnoncourt and his Concentus Musicus. 50 years of musical voyages of discovery. Residence, Salzburg / Vienna Frankfurt 2003, ISBN 3-7017-1267-0 , p. 222.
personal data
SURNAME Mayr, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian music patron and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1977
Place of death Vienna