Ubald Tartaruga

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Ubald Tartaruga (born February 12, 1875 in Vienna ; died November 21, 1941 in the Dachau concentration camp ) - actually Ubald Edmund Otto Tartaruga, before 1920: Edmund Otto Ehrenfreund - was an Austrian police lawyer, police writer and parapsychologist.

Life

The son of the Jewish couple Sigmund Ehrenfreund, a merchant and bank agent, and his wife Pauline, née Schorstein, graduated from high school in Vienna in 1895. After graduating from high school, Tartaruga enrolled at the law faculty of the University of Vienna, but in the same year began his military service as a one-year volunteer. For this reason, he began his studies until the winter semester 1896/97, he on 31 July 1901 the Absolutorium ended.

In the same year his sister Elsa Ehrenfreund (* February 11, 1878 in Königinhof , Bohemia - † May 11, 1901 in Vienna) committed suicide. The "artist" took her own life in 1901 for unknown reasons by jumping out of the third floor of her house.

In 1899 Tartaruga converted from Judaism to Protestant faith with reference to the Augsburg Confession .

He married Amalia Adolfine Marie Neuwirth on March 4, 1906. This marriage lasted until 1939 when it was ended by forced divorce .

job

On February 10, 1902, Tartaruga entered the civil service. He quickly advanced to the position of draftsman (a kind of project manager), later to the police commissioner in the kk police department in Vienna.

In his function as police superintendent in 1921 he was the protagonist of an "Institute for Telepathic Research" sponsored by the Vienna Regional Court and a wealthy patron. There he developed and defended the thesis that criminal science should collect and systematically evaluate knowledge about telepathy and then develop a "criminal telepathy" in the context of a logical system.

Police service ended when he retired in 1920 at the age of 45.

Literary work

Until his retirement in 1920, there are no reliable sources about Ubald Tartaruga; in any case, he began his literary activity at an early age under the pseudonym "Ubald Tartaruga", which he took as his name after retiring from active police service. This was possible with reference to the conversion in 1899, which allowed the convertor to change his name under the law of the time. From this point on, Tartaruga's publishing activity increased massively, his anecdotes about everyday police work found great sales and even Karl Kraus devoted himself to his work in the torch .

Other areas of life also moved back into Tartaruga's field of vision: He completed his law degree and then studied paleontology.

His dissertation on "The role of fossils in the history of the unicorn saga" is still available today at the University Library in Vienna, but his supervisor, Othenio Abel , spoke out against Tartaruga's graduation.

From 1924 he was managing director of the Vienna Parapsychic Institute , which was headed by Karl Camillo Schneider . Here, too, Tartaruga published specialist literature as part of this activity.

Escape from National Socialism

Ubald Tartaruga fled to the Czecho-Slovak Republic on January 19, 1939 . Before that he traveled to Slovenia in November 1938 to see the poet Alma Karlin , whom he knew from a previous stay.

When he campaigned against the National Socialists there, he was arrested and finally died in the Dachau concentration camp in 1941.

Publications (selection)

  • In the twilight of life. Cheerful and serious stories. Vienna (Deubler) undated
  • Occult sketchbook. Vienna-Leipzig (C. Barth) no year
  • Criminal telepathy and retroscopy: telepathy and Clairvoyance in the service d. Criminology, M. Altmann Verlag (Leipzig), 1922
  • Police humor. Cheerful, funny and drastic sketches from the big city police service. Vienna (Deubler) undated
  • The Wiener Pitaval: A collection d. most interesting criminal trials from old and new Vienna, Verlag C. Barth (Vienna), 1924 in two volumes

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ UAW, Nationaleblätter 1896/97 - 1901.
  2. ↑ WStLA, death book of the Israelite religious community, microfiche edition, A988 / 8
  3. ↑ "Psychic detectives" also in Germany? Clairvoyant and police investigative work. (No longer available online.) Kriminalpolizei.de, December 1, 2007, archived from the original on July 19, 2011 ; Retrieved on November 4, 2011 : "Oberpolizeirat Ubald Tartaruga (...) took the view that real and observation telepathy have always been highly important factors in criminal and forensic services, but that we have to call it the order of the day to collect the necessary experience, to sift through it, to bring it into a logical system and to turn it into a branch of criminology titled 'criminal telepathy' <<. " Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kriminalpolizei.de
  4. ↑ WStLA, first name and surname change , business Z. IIIb., 6058/3, 1920
  5. ↑ Ubald Tartaruga, The role of fossils in the history of the unicorn saga Vienna 1931
personal data
SURNAME Tartaruga, Ubald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tartaruga, Ubald Edmund Otto (full name); Honorary friend, Edmund Otto (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian police lawyer, police writer and parapsychologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1941
Place of death Dachau concentration camp