Wilhelm Mautner

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Wilhelm Mautner (born November 28, 1889 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died 1944 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was an Austrian economist and authorized signatory of the Rotterdamse Bank as well as an art collector .

Life

Mautner first attended the Vienna Commercial Academy , which he graduated with honors, and worked in banking and industry from 1907 to 1914, most recently in Paris. In addition to his professional activity, he had already completed university studies in Vienna and Paris. When the war began, he returned home to do his military service with an artillery regiment. After the war Mautner studied political science in Vienna and Tübingen, where he graduated after seven semesters. Mautner received his doctorate in political science at the University of Tübingen in 1919 . He concluded the epilogue to his dissertation on Bolshevism on the day the Germany signed the Versailles Peace Treaty , June 28, 1919; it was published a year later than, as he emphasized in the foreword to the book edition, many of his results the political events were out of date. In 1919 he moved to the Netherlands and lived in Amsterdam from 1929 to 1944 . He was unmarried and had no children. On July 22, 1942, he made his brother's will in Ohio , United States , the sole heir. During the Second World War he tried unsuccessfully as a Jew to escape the Nazi regime . Mautner tried to get a visa for the United States with the help of his brother. In December 1943 he was arrested during a raid on Jews in Amsterdam. On January 20, 1944, he was deported from the Westerbork transit camp to the Theresienstadt ghetto . Here he held lectures at the so-called University of Theresienstadt , a camp university organized by the prisoners. On September 29, 1944, he was brought from Theresienstardt to Auschwitz-Birkenau , where he was murdered.

Art collection

Pieter Brueghel the Younger : A Tax Collector's Office, 1618
Franz Tymmermann : The beheading of John the Baptist, 1534
Jan Steen : River landscape with figures and a carriage in front of a tower

Mautner was an art collector. He must have started collecting when he came to Amsterdam in 1919 and occasionally published not only on economic issues, but also on art-historical issues. During the Second World War he was in contact with Max J. Friedländer , in whose diary he is mentioned repeatedly, and he continued to acquire works of art, which he was forbidden from 1942 due to his Jewish origin. He hid 15 paintings from the collector Dr. JA van Dongen on Museumplein in Amsterdam. This kept them until the post-war period. Presumably he then bought the works from Mautner's heirs. During the war, Mautner sold twelve works, mainly from the 19th century, to W. Kadzik from Vienna. Because of his Jewish origins, Mautner could not act as a seller, so he asked his friend, the German-Dutch art collector Hans Alfred Wetzlar , to take care of the formalities. Mautner sold other works through art dealers in 1943, including the special order Linz . Three of these works became part of the NK collection of the Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit after the war :

In 2009 and 2012, the Dutch government returned all three paintings to Mautner's heirs.

Publications

Title page
  • Bolshevism. Preconditions, history, theory, at the same time an examination of its relationship to Marxism . Kohlhammer, Berlin 1920 [Tübingen Political Science Treatises]
  • Europe's debt . Frankfurter Sozietäts-Druckerei, Frankfurt a. M. 1923
  • On the history of the term “dictatorship of the proletariat” , in: Archive for the history of socialism and the workers' movement , ed. v. Carl Grünberg , 12 (1926) [Reprint Graz 1966], pp. 280-283.
  • Economic statistics and politics , in: Der Eiserne Steg . Yearbook 1926 of the book publisher of the Frankfurter Societäts-Druckerei. Frankfurt
  • with Werner von Knorre: The Russian oil industry. A contribution to the economic knowledge of the production, circulation and consumption relationships of important world trade goods , Berlin; Wien Verlag für Fachliteratur 1927. From: Petroleum , 1927, No. 9, 13 u. 18th
  • The fight for and against Russian oil . Manzsche publishing and university bookstore, Vienna, Leipzig 1929.
  • American capital in the DEI petroleum industry . DeGolyer and MacNaughton, Dallas, Texas, 1937.
  • The position of the Dutch East Indies in the international petroleum industry . Manuscript. undated [1937]

Web links

Wikisource: Wilhelm Mautner  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Day of the oral exams: August 14, 1919. See Wilhelm Mautner: Der Bolschewismus, requirements and history . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1920 (partial print with curriculum vitae).
  2. ^ Wilhelm Mautner: Der Bolschewismus , 1920, p. XIf; P. 353
  3. ↑ All information in this article comes from the Restitution Committee [RC. 1.89] - [9. February 2009] unless otherwise specified.
  4. ^ Prisoners of Ghetto Theresienstadt (1940–1945) Database Personal records
  5. ↑ E. Makarova, S. Makarov, V. Kuperman, Verba Publishers (eds.): UNIVERSITY OVER THE ABYSS. Jerusalem 2000, p. 472 (http://makarovainit.com/index.html).
  6. ^ Wilhelm Mautner - holocaust.cz. (No longer available online.) In: www2.holocaust.cz. Archived from the original on November 17, 2015 ; accessed on November 10, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www2.holocaust.cz
  7. ↑ Ruth Kaloena Krul in Mautner's curriculum vitae at www.artprovenance.nl , last viewed on 23 September 2016
  8. ↑ a b Mautner | Restitutiecommissie. In: www.restitutiecommissie.nl. Retrieved November 16, 2015 . ; Mautner | Restitutiecommissie. In: www.restitutiecommissie.nl. Retrieved November 16, 2015 .
  9. ^ Pieter Brueghel the Younger | lot | Sotheby's. NK 2297. In: www.sothebys.com. Retrieved November 10, 2015 .
  10. ^ NK 1655 . Archived from the original on March 25, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 19, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.herkomstgezocht.nl
  11. ↑ NK 2655 ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Herkomst Gezocht. Search, Undirected Search, "Mautner". In: www.herkomstgezocht.nl. Retrieved November 10, 2015 . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.herkomstgezocht.nl
  12. ↑ Wilhelm Mautner: American capital in the DEI petroleum industry, . DeGolyer and MacNaughton. January 21, 2018.
  13. ^ Wilhelm Mautner: American Capital in the DEI Petroleum Industry . DeGolyer and MacNaughton. January 21, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Mautner, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian economist and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 1944
Place of death Auschwitz concentration camp