Stefan Mautner

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Stefan Mautner , also Stephan Mautner , (born February 12, 1877 in Vienna ; died presumably July 1944 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was an Austrian entrepreneur and the eldest son of industrialist Isidor Mautner and his wife Jenny.

Life

Stefan Mautner was the oldest of four children of the large Jewish industrialist Isidor Mautner and his wife Jenny (née Neuman (n)). He was systematically built up by his father as the successor in his group. Stefan was the only one of the four children to complete a full school education at the Schottengymnasium in Vienna. After graduating from high school in 1895 and completing one year of military service, he attended a weaving school and did an internship in the mechanical weaving mill in Schumburg an der Desse , which belonged to the Isaac Mautner & Sohn company.

In 1898 he was appointed "commercial reporter" for a "commercial study trip to East Asia" by the President of the Reichenberg Chamber of Commerce , to whose district Schumburg also belonged. After his return he married Elsa Eissler in April 1900 and moved into a house in Vienna's cottage district . The marriage had four children.

After the death of his grandfather on April 27, 1901, Stefan Mautner took over his position as personally liable partner of the company Isaac Mautner & Sohn. After the company was converted by his father into a stock corporation in 1905, he rose to the position of vice president of the company until 1916. Stephan also took over positions on the board of directors of the numerous other paternal companies. Stephan held one of the three board positions in the company "Deutsche Textilwerke Mautner AG", founded in 1915, and in 1916 he and his father took over the management of the Pölser paper factory and the iron works Sandau . In addition, Stephan Mautner became a member of the income tax assessment committee in 1912, a member of the arbitration tribunal for the goods industry in 1913 and a member of the board of the Association of Austrian Cotton Spinners in 1916.

After the First World War , he was elected President of the newly founded Neue Wiener Bankgesellschaft in 1921 , whose main shareholder was Isidor Mautner. The Vienna banking crisis of 1924 also brought this institute to the brink of bankruptcy, business could only be continued because Isidor Mautner pledged his real estate to the Austrian National Bank . However, this measure proved to be only helpful in the short term, on October 31, 1926 he had to resolve the liquidation of the bank, which contributed significantly to the collapse of his father's corporate empire.

After the death of his father on April 13, 1930, he resigned from all his posts and devoted his time almost exclusively to his two great passions, hunting and painting. He had a large hunting ground with a hunting lodge in Trattenbach am Wechsel and, in his youth, had a well-founded artistic training, most recently from the renowned painter Hugo Charlemont .

After Austria was annexed to the National Socialist German Reich on March 14, 1938, the expropriation measures of the National Socialists robbed him of all his property, including his valuable collection of pictures. While his children were able to emigrate to the USA , he and his wife fled to Hungary. According to not entirely certain information, both were deported from Budapest to the Auschwitz concentration camp in July 1944 and murdered there.

meaning

His painterly and graphic productivity, which was within the framework of academic painting , was considerable, but very few of his works made it into the art trade, a large part is owned by the Albertina . Stephan Mautner also wrote literary works, which he provided with his own illustrations and graphics: Das Haus auf der Dürr , published in 1918 by Waldheim-Eberle; Colored Hours , published in 1921 by the Wiener Graphische Werkstätte publishing house, which contains some experiences on the East Asia trip in 1898, as well as Colored Hours, Part 2 , published in 1927 by Steyrermühl-Verlag, which mainly reports hunting experiences.

Fonts

  • Report on a business study trip to East Asia. Self-published, Vienna 1899.
  • The house on the Dürr. Waldheim-Eberle, Vienna 1918 ( also published as a private print under the title Trattenbach ).
  • Colored hours. Verlag der Wiener Graphische Werkstätte, Leipzig a. Vienna 1921.
  • Colored hours. Part 2. Steyrermühl, Vienna 1927.

literature

  • M. Bucek:  Mautner, Stephan . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 . 2nd revised edition (online only).
  • Mautner, Stephan. In: Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 2: J-R. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 910.
  • Wolfgang Hafer: The other Mautners. The fate of a Jewish entrepreneurial family. Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-95565-061-2 .

Web links

  • Biography on the website of the University of Graz

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stephan Mautner: Report on a commercial study trip to East Asia. Vienna 1899
  2. ↑ LostArt.de
personal data
SURNAME Mautner, Stefan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mautner, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: July 1944
Place of death Auschwitz concentration camp