Raoul Fernand Jellinek-Mercedes

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Raoul Fernand Jellinek-Mercedes (born June 18, 1888 in Algiers ; died February 10, 1939 in Baden near Vienna ) was an Austrian writer.

Life

House in Baden

Raoul Fernand Jellinek was the son of the Austro-Hungarian diplomat and car dealer Emil Jellinek and Rachel Goggmann Cenrobert. One sister was Mercédès Jellinek , who is considered to be the namesake of the Mercedes automobile brand . In June 1903 Emil Jellinek had the family name changed to "Jellinek-Mercédès".

Jellinek-Mercedes married Leopoldine Weiss. With his half-brother Guy, he was a supporting member of the Wiener Musikverein . He owned an extensive collection of music and paintings as well as a library that was located in his house on Wienerstrasse in Baden near Vienna.

During the First World War he served as a lieutenant in the Austro-Hungarian army .

When, after the annexation of Austria in July 1938, he was requested by the property transfer office in the Ministry of Labor and Economics of the Ostmark to review his property situation in accordance with the " Ordinance on the registration of property of Jews of May 18, 1938 (Journal of Laws for Austria (GBlÖ) No. . 139/1938) ”, he tried to find evidence that he was“ only of second degree Jewish descent ”. The birth certificate in Algiers did not contain any information about the religion of the parents and grandparents. His property was therefore declared as Jewish property and his disposal options were restricted. In February 1939 he shot himself after an official act by the enforcement officer . He found his final resting place in the family grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 59C, No. 26), where several of his siblings and his uncle Max Hermann Jellinek are also buried.

Another fate of the family

As a result, his widow had to sell her valuables and real estate for below value in order to pay the Jewish property tax of RM 32,000 . His collection of over a thousand volumes of complete editions by German musicians from the Breitkopf & Härtel publishing house was confiscated by the Gestapo and in 1940 came to the music library in Essen .

The Leopoldine Jellinek-Mercedes in May 1962 in the Republic of Austria strained restitution claim was dismissed in August 1962 because of late submission of the application. Sixty years after his death, the German and Austrian libraries began to look through their library holdings for restitution cases; the stock in Essen was discovered "rather by accident". Half-sister Andrée Jellinek-Mercedes (1906–2003), represented by her son-in-law, the Austrian diplomat Ludwig Steiner , was compensated for the book collection in 2002, although the city of Essen could have invoked the statute of limitations .

plant

  • Fantastic stories and fairy tales . Kuppitsch, Vienna 1919

literature

  • Anett Krause, Cordula Reuss [Eds.]: Nazi looted property in the Leipzig University Library: [Catalog for the exhibition in the Bibliotheca Albertina, November 27, 2011 to March 18, 2012] , “Writings from the Leipzig University Library” 25, 2011, p 58f
  • Reinhard Brenner: The Jellinek-Mercedes collection in the Essen city library . In: Jewish book ownership as looted property , ed. by Regine Dehnel, Frankfurt am Main 2006 (= Second Hanover Symposium; "Journal for Libraries and Bibliography", special issue 88, pp. 379–385)
  • Reinhard Brenner: On the history of the Jellinek-Mercedes collection. An exchange of letters . In: “ Book and Library ” 56 (2004), pp. 351–357
  • Kurt Frieberger : Fate of a Viennese Family . In: “ Die Presse ”, Vienna, February 27, 1949
  • Guy Jellinek-Mercédès: Mon père, Monsieur Mercédès , Editions France-Empire, Paris 1961
    • My father, Mr. Mercedes , by the author from the French, P. Neff, Vienna 1962

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Reinhard Brenner: The Jellinek-Mercedes Collection in the Essen City Library , 2006
  2. ^ A b c d e Walter Mentzel: Restitution dossier: Library "Raoul Fernand Jellinek-Mercedes" , 2012
  3. ^ Photo , in Wiener Bilder , December 8, 1918, at ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online
  4. ↑ Reinhard Brenner: On the history of the Jellinek-Mercedes collection. An exchange of letters , 2004, p. 355
personal data
SURNAME Jellinek-Mercedes, Raoul Fernand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jellinek-Mercédès, Raoul Fernand; Jellinek, Raoul Fernand (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Algiers
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1939
Place of death Baden near Vienna