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The modalities of compensation which were negotiated with
Kuffner's heirs after World War II have been cited as a positive example for the restitution of Jewish assets that were expropriated under the rule of National Socialism in Austria. The owners of the Ottakring brewery made contact with the
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to take over the brewery only by placing his single non-Jewish executive - the laboratory director - formally in charge of the company. In a desperate attempt to salvage whatever he could before the family had to leave Vienna, Moriz' son
Stephan Kuffner negotiated the sale of the brewery to an
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Austria to the Third Reich the Kuffner family was subjected to the full range of harassments and physical threats which the newly empowered National Socialists could mount against Jewish industrialists. On 13 March 1938, Moriz averted a forceful attempt by a
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World War I dealt a significant economic blow to the
Kuffner family, and essentially ended the era of their sponsorship. Brewery product sales recovered only very slowly, and profits never returned to the levels seen during the "century of the brewers."
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brewery stock worth one million
Austrian Schillings. In return, the Kuffner family waived their rights to the Palais Kuffner. Those parts of the confiscated Kuffner library which had been incorporated into the
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The year 1938 was disastrous for the 84-year-old Moriz von
Kuffner in multiple ways. In January his wife Elsa and then in February his eldest son Ignaz died, and he himself fell ill. Moreover, after the
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business, and became a significant sponsor of Vienna's social and cultural life as well as a mentor of astronomy. Moriz von
Kuffner was forced to sell his Austrian assets and to leave Vienna in 1938.
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With the assistance of a fellow alpinist Moriz von
Kuffner - an already very old and very ill man - obtained an immigration permit for Switzerland. He had to pay the
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Kuffner established the Moriz und Elsa von Kuffner foundation in Switzerland. It supports collaborative projects in remote Swiss mountain areas and
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In 1887, he had a representative residence (the Palais Kuffner) built in Ottakring. It quickly became an attraction for Viennese society, culture, and politics.
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Kuffner family as soon as 1945. In August 1950, an agreement was reached under which Moriz' seven entitled heirs received $ 440,000; Stephan Kuffner received
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was named in honor of Moriz von Kuffner's sponsorship of astronomy.
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clinic and was interred at the Rehalp cemetery in the
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over the eastern North Face pillar (Kuffner pillar)
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574:Categories
561:Online PDF
537:Darthé, M.
531:Literature
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379:Hirslanden
281:Mont Blanc
164:Wienerwald
145:Mont Blanc
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565:Archived
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