Hans Herbert Brunn

• Born on: 24.1.1916
• Category: Diploma program
• Right of domicile: Wien (Wien),

The English version is based on a translation by Artificial Intelligence. The authentic version is the German version.

Hans Herbert was the son of Edith and Dr. Leo Brunn. His parents married on June 2, 1914.

Dr. Leo Brunn (born January 13, 1883 in Vienna) worked for the life insurance company Phönix. He lost his life in a traffic accident in early December 1930, but his ashes, which were cremated in the Vienna crematorium, were not buried until May of the following year.

After obtaining his high school diploma, Hans Herbert Brunn initially studied law for one semester at the University of Vienna. In the summer semester of 1937 and the following winter semester, he was enrolled at the University for World Trade. The last exam he took as part of the diploma program offered there was in February 1938. After the 'Anschluss' of Austria, he was deregistered on June 3, 1938, and received a certificate of departure from the university.

Although Hans Herbert, like his parents, was Protestant, he saw no opportunity to continue his studies at the 'Welthandel' after the 'Anschluss' due to his Jewish ancestry - according to National Socialist ideology, he was considered a 'Mischling'. On July 13, 1938, he left the family home at Gentzgasse 59 (18th district of Vienna) and went to Italy.

His mother (born August 18, 1894 in Vienna as Edith Friedl) also gave up her apartment, which was only one kilometer away from the University for World Trade; starting from her 44th birthday, she lived for a year with Hans Herbert's sister Doris (born 1925 in Vienna) in a villa at Cottagegasse 47a (19th district). Two days after her son had left Austria, Edith Brunn submitted the asset declaration to the Asset Control Office in Vienna, which all Jews were forced to submit under a regulation by the Nazi regime with the intention of robbery. She had to sell the majority of her valuable assets in order to cover the costs of emigration. As she herself stated to the Asset Control Office in December 1938, she incurred "emigration costs" of 1,600 Reichsmarks solely for her son. In addition, there were costs for her own emigration as well as for the departure of her friend Guido Glaser (born November 18, 1905 in Aussig/Ústí nad Labem), whom Edith married in exile in November 1941. From the modest pension of 77 Reichsmarks per month, she could not afford the exorbitant fees imposed by the Nazi regime on Jewish emigrants. When all exit costs are totaled, she must have left Austria almost penniless. Initially, she traveled to Brussels on her 45th birthday. Apparently, just in time before the onset of the Western Campaign (May 10, 1940), she made her way to safety in Great Britain from Belgium. Here she survived the war alongside her second husband, who, like her first husband, was of the Jewish faith and had fled to Prague in September 1938. She passed away in Manchester on December 29, 1984, at the age of 90. Her second husband had died in the same city on April 4, 1976.

Hans Herbert was married to Doris Alderova, who was born on January 17, 1929, in the Czechoslovak city of Teplitz-Schönau/Teplice-Šanov. She passed away on April 30, 1982, in New York. Hans Herbert, in turn, died on October 10, 1996, in Derby (Great Britain).

Author: Johannes Koll

Source material

Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Universitätsarchiv, Karteikarte und Alte Prüfungsliste.
Friedhöfe Wien, Verstorbenensuche: http://www.friedhoefewien.at/eportal/ [14. Mai 2014].
Geni: http://www.geni.com/people/Hans-Herbert-Brunn/6000000008667812380 (zu Hans Herbert Brunn) [14. Mai 2014].
Geni: http://www.geni.com/people/Dr-Leo-Brunn/6000000004258391620 (zu Dr. Leo Brunn) [14. Mai 2014].
Geni: http://www.geni.com/people/Edith-Phillipine-Brunn/6000000004258499120 (zu Edith Brunn) [14. Mai 2014].
Geni: http://www.geni.com/people/Guido-Glaser/6000000012092080539 [14. Juli 2014].
Ancestry.com: http://records.ancestry.com/doris_alderova_records.ashx?pid=88612823 (zu Doris Alderova) [14. Mai 2014].
Meldeauskünfte des Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchivs, GZ MA 8 – B-MEW - 818945/2013 (zu Hans Herbert Brunn), MA 8 – B-MEW-513551/2014 (zu Dr. Leo Brunn), MA 8 – B-MEW-385166/2014 (zu Edith Brunn) und MA 8 – B-MEP-513882/2014 (zu Guido Glaser).
Österreichisches Staatsarchiv, Archiv der Republik, Vermögensverkehrsstelle, VA 50717.