Samuel Schallinger Explained

Samuel Schallinger
Death Date:	1942
Death Place:	Theresienstadt concentration camp, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Occupation:	Co-owner of the Imperial and the Bristol hotels in Vienna, Austria

Samuel Schallinger (died 1942) was an Austrian Jewish businessman.

Biography

Schallinger was an Austrian Jewish businessman who was co-owner of the Imperial and the Bristol hotels in Vienna, Austria, which today are still among the city of Vienna's grandest hotels.^[1]

In 1938, the hotels underwent Aryanization and he was forced to sell his shares. He and his family were deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp near Prague, Czechoslovakia where they all died in 1942.^{[2] [3]}

Details of the property seized from Schallinger and other Austrian Jews under the Nazis, and names the famous beneficiaries who took them and never gave them back, are outlined in the book Unser Wien (Our Vienna) by Stephan Templ and Tina Walzer.^[4]

Further reading

• Andreas Augustin, Bill Lorenz, Hotel Bristol, Vienna, The Most Famous Hotels In the World (2001)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Vienna Skewered as a Nazi-Era Pillager of Its Jews . New York Times. Erlanger, Steven. March 7, 2002.
2. Web site: the Imperial Hotel-Where Hitler Stayed When In Vienna After the Anschluss. Winnipeg Jewish Review . Spivak, Rhonda. October 14, 2014.
3. Web site: SCHALLINGER SAMUEL: TODESFALLANZEIGE, GHETTO THERESIENSTADT. Nationalarchiv Prag; Institut Theresienstädter Initiative.
4. Web site: Vienna's tourist trail of plunder. The Guardian. Connolly, Kate. May 21, 2002.