Victor hammer blow

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Victor Hammerschlag (born June 17, 1870 in Leipnik , Austria-Hungary ; died May 16, 1943 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp ) was a doctor, specialist author, avowed social democrat and Austrian Freemason .

Life

Hammerschlag was one of the founders of the Vienna Academic Corps Marchia student union in 1888 . After completing his studies, he was an ENT specialist at the Wilhelminenspital in Vienna and a university professor at the University of Vienna . He was since February 9, 1913 Freemason and member of the Loge future of the Grand Lodge of Vienna. In the 1920s he was their master of the chair . As a university professor he was a state employee and had to resign from Freemasonry in the corporate state in 1934 . In 1936, however, immediately after his retirement, he reversed this exit.

Alongside many other Viennese Freemasons, he was a co-founder and active member of civil society associations, such as the readiness or the Austrian League for Human Rights . He was also a staunch social democrat .

His son was the writer and cabaret artist Peter Hammerschlag . Victor Hammerschlag's interest in literature was also pronounced, as from 1925 he was in a leading position and, together with the writer Sigismund von Radecki (Homunculus) and others, campaigned for Karl Kraus to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature . Supporters such as Karin Michaëlis or Charles Andler were won worldwide and Karl Kraus was actually nominated for the years 1926, 1927 and 1928.

Victor Hammerschlag was born in 1942 with his wife Hedwig Hammerschlag, b. Bunzl, deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp . Both were murdered. The son Valentin escaped to Argentina , the other son Peter was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp .

Private library

Library stamp from Prof. Dr. Hammer blow

A volume from the private library of Prof. Dr. Victor Hammerschlag was found while searching for Nazi looted property in the holdings of the Württemberg State Library in Stuttgart . The book is marked with a corresponding stamp.

Publications

  • Introduction to the knowledge of simpler Mendelian processes . Vienna 1934

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marcus G. Patka : Freemasonry and Social Reform. Vienna 2011, ( ISBN 978-3-85409-594-1 )
  2. ↑ Günter K. Kodek: Our building blocks are the people. The members of the Viennese Masonic lodges 1869–1938. Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-85409-512-5 , p. 139
  3. ^ Marcus G. Patka: Austrian Freemasons in National Socialism. Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-205-78546-0 , p. 20
  4. ↑ Eckart Early in: Karl Kraus and France . In Austria approx. Relations franco-autrichienne (1870-1970), Rouen 1986, pp. 273f
  5. ↑ Norbert Knittler: The lost suitcase. A History of Austrian Freemasonry during National Socialism . Vienna, 2004, p. 31
personal data
SURNAME Hammer blow, Victor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hammer blow, Viktor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian freemason and doctor
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1943
Place of death Theresienstadt concentration camp , Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia