Felix Pollack von Parnegg

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Birth & Marriage Data - cf. IKG-Wien Archives traced courtesy of www.genteam.at 82592 1868 4223 1 Wien Pollak (Pollack von Parnegg) Felix Leopold/Gerstl Mathilde 61497 1907 7 2 Stadttempel Hirsch Elsa 82573 1907 7 2 Stadttempel Pollack von Parnegg Felix

Felix Pollack von Parnegg was not only head, together with his only other-sole-surviving brother Otto, of the firm founded by his grandfather, Hermann Pollack, but also long-time president and subsequently honorary president of the Kreditverein of 1870. (cf. article cited below)

Death by suicide on 27th. September 1932 in Wien. This tragic event is related in detail in an article which appeared in the Neue Freie Presse the following day - cf. copy posted under "Media", courtesy of www.anno.at

Mini-summary: Felix chose a secluded corner of the cemetery in which to shoot himself in the temple. He left a note to "Whomever might find" him to contact Dr. Gustav Fuchs, in his firm of "Hermann Pollacks Söhne". Dr. Fuchs and others were at a loss as to the reason for Felix's desperate act. It was suggested that he might have been too much under stress at work or that, perhaps, a recent operation to remove a growth from the skin of his chest might have caused him anxiety about falling ill with cancer. The sole suicide note was addressed to his wife. In it, no mention of a motive is made but he takes loving leave of his spouse and declares simply: "life isn't actually as worthwhile as one sometimes believes it to be and it is no hard decision to throw it away ...". The article goes on to point out that Felix and his wife had a happy marriage only possibly marred by the lack of offspring. Further details are given about the firm of "Hermann Pollack & Söhne", that it ranks as one of the best-known and biggest enterprises in the textile industry of Central Europe, founded in 1837, in the years following the First World War, when it reached the height of its success, it had between 5000 - 6000 employees working in branches with various specific aspects of textile production - spinning, weaving,dyeing and finishing etc. - in Austria, Germany, Czechoslovakia and elsewhere.

cf. also obituary (under "Media") from the "Jüdische Wochenschrift die Wahrheit" , Wien, dated 4th. October 1933, i.e. a year after his death, in praising commemoration of him (pip)