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Josef Saar

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Fünfhaus,, Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Death: February 07, 1935 (55)
Vienna, Wien, Austria
Immediate Family:

Son of Heinrich Saar and Aloisia Louise Saar
Husband of Hilda Olga Saar
Father of Franzi Eva Saar and Heinrich Saar
Brother of Alfred Alexander Saar; Richard Henry Saar and Olga Weisz

Managed by: Itai Hermelin
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About Josef Saar

Much fascinating information courtesy of the following source.

Josef SAAR took over the bookstore founded by his father, Heinrich SAAR, which also specialised in selling second-hand publications etc.

He is pictured here in this evocative exlibris created for him by the graphic artist Arthur Paunzen.

The business suffered from the loss of first Heinrich and then Josef, the latter particularly an untimely death. It finally had to be liquidated, though the stocks were still of some worth when the Anschluss came in 1938 ...

WS 2001/2002 Neuere Deutsche Literatur: Seminar „'Arisierung' im österreichischen Buchhandel“ Prof. Dr. Murray G. Hall. Claudia Gassner Matrikelnummer 9100980 Thema: Die Buchhandlung Heinrich Saar cf. www.murrayhall.com/files/referate/gassner_saar.pdf

Here just a short extract to start: (pip)

" ... Sohn Josef Saar, der schon bei der Witwenfortführung durch die Mutter im Geschäft des Vaters tätig war, wird mit Ansuchen vom 19. August 1920 der neue Inhaber.

Frau Louise Saar hat das von ihr unter der Firma Heinrich Saar betriebene Geschäft, nämlich Antiquariat, Buchhandlung und Verkauf von Kalendern, Standort in Wien, XV. Mariahilferstrasse 176 an ihren Sohn Josef Saar [...] übertragen, welcher dieses Handelsgewerbe mit Zustimmung der ersteren unter der gleichen Firma „HEINRICH SAAR“ weiter betreiben wird..."

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Josef Saar's Timeline

1879
September 4, 1879
Fünfhaus,, Vienna, Vienna, Austria
1922
February 8, 1922
Vienna, Vienna, Austria
1926
January 26, 1926
Vienna, Vienna, Austria
1935
February 7, 1935
Age 55
Vienna, Wien, Austria