Footnotes

¹ Schenker's diary for February 5, 1916 (OJ 2/1, p. 126): reports: "Von Karpath Br.: inliegend eine Karte des Neffens Mittelmanns, der sich zur Aussage „selbst gemeldet hat“." ("From Karpath, letter enclosing a postcard from Mittelmann's nephew, who has 'come forward' to give evidence."). — For February 6, the diary reports (ibid, p. 127): "Brief von Karpath, worin ein Brief Mittelmanns angeschlossen war. Bitte um einen Militär-Verteidiger." ("Letter from Karpath with which was enclosed a letter from Mittelmann. Request for a military defense attorney."). Neither the postcard from Mittelmann's nephew nor the letter from Mittelmann is known to survive.

² Dr. Siegfried Hübsch, attorney, Vienna VIII, Lange Gasse 67 (Lehmann 1916). ‒ Schenker's diary for February 7 (ibid, p. 127: "Telephonisch Karpath mitgeteilt, daß Dr. Hübsch kein Militär-Verteidiger ist u. Ludwig Gelber vorgeschlagen, worauf Karpath die Frage lieber auf später verschoben wünscht." ("I informed Karpath by telephone that Dr. Hübsch is not a military defense attorney, and recommended Ludwig Gelber, whereupon Karpath prefers to defer the question until later.").

³ A three-page entry in Schenker's diary at OJ 2/1, pp. 127‒129, February 7, 1916, records Schenker's attendance at the Divisional Court of the Home Guard to give his deposition, in which he stated that Mittelmann was "absolutely incapable of unpatriotic thoughts," and argued that Mittelmann's shouting of "black-and-gold dogs" had been intended as patriotic, not the contrary. The entry then records his meeting with Karpath in the Café Museum, in the course of which it emerges that Mittelmann was living in a shelter for homeless men (Vienna XVII/1, Wurlitzergasse 89). Discussion then turned to choice of defense attorney, for which Kurt von Redlich was nominated.

Commentary

Format

1p letter, holograph salutation, message, valediction, signature, and postscript

Provenance

Schenker, Heinrich (document date-1935)--Schenker, Jeanette (1935-c.1942)--Ratz, Erwin (c.1942-c.1955)--Jonas, Oswald (c.1955-1978)--University of California, Riverside (1978--)

Rights Holder

Heirs of Ludwig Karpath

License

Permission to publish being sought. Any claim to intellectual rights should be addressed to the Schenker Correspondence Project, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, at schenkercorrespondence [at] mus (dot) cam (dot) ac (dot) uk.

Digital version created: 2016-08-16
Last updated: 2010-05-16