Decision no. 1071/2014
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Press Release Decision No. 1071/2014
In 1938, one half of each of the two properties in the 19th Municipal District of Vienna was owned by the Jewish businessman Moritz G. A tannery for a shoe factory and a tenanted apartment building were situated on one of the properties, which had an area of 2,273 m². The other property, with an area of 1,569 m² had also had a tenanted apartment building situated on it.
In March 1938, Moritz G. was able to flee to Paris and later to Sydney.
On 17 August 1939 Hans W., the trustee who had been appointed by the Property Transaction Office for Moritz G.’S assets, sold his one half share of the larger of the properties to Kurt Go. for 13,800 Reichsmark. The buyer had to pay an additional 1,200 Reichsmark as “dejewification fee”. The majority of the proceeds from the sale were used to pay the Jewish capital levy which had been imposed on Moritz G. On 9 July 1940, Kurt Go. sold this one half share to Adolf Ernst H. for 15,000 Reichsmark.
Moritz G.’s one half share of the smaller property was forfeited to the German Reich on grounds of the Elfte Verordnung zum Reichsbürgergesetz (“Eleventh Decree to the Reich Citizenship Law”) of 25 November 1941.
On 31 October 1950, the Financial Directorate for Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland restituted this half share of the property to Moritz G. In 1951, Moritz G. sold this one half share.
On 24 April 1950, proceedings before the Restitution Commission Vienna also led to the restitution of the one half share of the larger property to Moritz G. In exchange for the restitution, he had had to reimburse the purchase price of 15,000 Schilling to Adolf Ernst H. In 1955, Moritz G. sold part of this half of the property.
In 1954, Moritz G. returned to Vienna, where he died in 1955. In 1970, his heirs – his sons Alfred and Otto G. – sold the remaining part of the half share of the property.
On 17 January 2001, the cut off day pursuant to the Entschädigungsfondsgesetz (“General Settlement Fund Law”), parts of both properties belonged to the City of Vienna. However, as these parts of the properties had already been restituted, the Arbitration Panel rejected the application for restitution.
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