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20. VI. 13
Eine Glosse zum Prozess Altmann, der drei Schwäger ermordet hat: es werden Zeugen geführt, die die Vornehmheit der Schwäger bezeugen sollen. 1 Als ob es nicht immer so wäre, daß man sich Kunden oder sonstigen Freunden stets nur vornehm zeigt, um desto ungebundener in Geiz oder Rohheit gegenüber einem Untergebenen sein zu können. Welchen prozessualen u. sonstigen menschlichen Wert hat dann also die Bestätigung der Vornehmheit von einer Seite, die sie empfangen hat. *Dr. Brünauer bittet um Sendung des Honorars bis Juli, da er auf Reisen geht! — *
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June 20, 1913.
A commentary on the trial of Altmann, who murdered [his] three brothers-in-law: witnesses are brought who are supposed to vouch for the respectability of the brothers-in-law. 1 As if it were not ever the case that one always presents clients or other friends only as respectable, so that one can be all the freer in meanness or coarseness towards an inferior being. What procedural or other human value does the affirmation of respectability have from the party that has obtained it? *Dr. Brünauer asks if he can delay sending his lesson fee until July, as he is taking a trip! — *
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20. VI. 13
Eine Glosse zum Prozess Altmann, der drei Schwäger ermordet hat: es werden Zeugen geführt, die die Vornehmheit der Schwäger bezeugen sollen. 1 Als ob es nicht immer so wäre, daß man sich Kunden oder sonstigen Freunden stets nur vornehm zeigt, um desto ungebundener in Geiz oder Rohheit gegenüber einem Untergebenen sein zu können. Welchen prozessualen u. sonstigen menschlichen Wert hat dann also die Bestätigung der Vornehmheit von einer Seite, die sie empfangen hat. *Dr. Brünauer bittet um Sendung des Honorars bis Juli, da er auf Reisen geht! — *
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June 20, 1913.
A commentary on the trial of Altmann, who murdered [his] three brothers-in-law: witnesses are brought who are supposed to vouch for the respectability of the brothers-in-law. 1 As if it were not ever the case that one always presents clients or other friends only as respectable, so that one can be all the freer in meanness or coarseness towards an inferior being. What procedural or other human value does the affirmation of respectability have from the party that has obtained it? *Dr. Brünauer asks if he can delay sending his lesson fee until July, as he is taking a trip! — *
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Footnotes1 "From the Courtroom: The Murder of Three Brothers-in-law (continued from the evening edition)," Neue freie Presse, No. 17537, June 20, 1913, morning edition, pp. 12–14. On February 20, 1913, two building contractors Alfred and Otto Berger, together with their brother Richard, a bookkeeper, were fatally shot by their own brother-in-law, the unemployed Emil Altmann. Altmann, who was in serious financial straits, had been dismissed the previous year from his brothers-in-law's firm following an argument. (See also "From the Courtroom: The Murder of Three Brothers-in-law," Neue freie Presse, No. 17536, June 19, 1913, evening edition, pp. 4–5). |