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1 May 1946

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A ceneral review of Xarl WJBS'OOCX• s career, w1 th particular emphaail on hi• connection vith the Linz project, has been included in Consolidated Interroca­ t1on Report llo. 4, nLIIZ: RinD'S MJSJlJM AliD LiliWlY." 1'he information contained in this report has been obtained from eourcea an~ documents which have come to hand since the publication of CIR #4. Addresses: , IUrtueratenstrasse 59 (gallery) . " Bellevu~straase Present wher eabouts: · In cus·tody of U. S. Chief of Counsel, Nuremberg, as a material witness in War Crimes proceedings,

I • PRJNAR CARDa

Born 1878 in Munich.

lL\BIBS'roCX came of a mid.d.le-claes family of peasant origiJl. His education was limited. He held no decrees for art study tram ~of the German universities, and expressed contempt for people who held them.

HABIRS'roCX•s entire career was based on two principles: anti­ Semitilm and Germanic chauviniam. He is said ts have been a voci­ ferous anti-Semite fJ:!Om the beginning, and to have attracted a certain clientele in this W1', particularly in Jerlin chlring the tweatlea, ~ the art market and other' elemente of the financial and oo--01&1 worb were dominated by Jews. ':hia clientele, ar'&Wil mostly from reactionary German circles, also ha4 a oatural ~ta for 19th century German art, as 'oppoatld to the "'4ecenerate1 ,henoh Tifod­ ucts of the' same period or their own progressive OeJ"maA c:ontemporu.-, ies. ·

When HITLBR came to power, HABDS'l'O~ Joined tbe Pa•t.,r. cbaracter1s\1c tbat he had not doae so before and be al~ eaw to it that he bad ao•••~Uia&...- · hie plaila alacarry. hen after be beeute • •e~~~bersbip S.n Interuatloaal iotar,r, u4 ~r!!•IIIJ• Jeviah peraecutioa he helped cerain of ea.-pe.• All of thie he pointed ~ ae liberal llletlllcta. ...

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va• conatdorablT tempered b7 eelf-lzl~ereat. lle plqe4 a lea41nc part in the dhpoaal of tbeee paintlap on the interaatloul. market, . tbu• obtaininc foreicn curraq tor tbe hrMD Oo•enaat and larce profite _for himaelf.

1'hanka to bia oarly clientele and hie political activity, RABDSTOCS became tbe moat important international dealer of Basi Gel'J'l81l7: · Ke traveled tbroUC}Iout krope an4 bad att1Uat1ona· vltb tnanT of the leadinc dealere, aucb aa Tbeodor JISCBIR of Lucerne, in wboee COIIIp&ey be viaited London in 1939; Oeorcea VILlDIHSWli, witb whom he owned picture& in Joint accountr and S&IOILUDt Brothers, with whom be planned a qatem tor r~reaentation in tbe Uni'ted States. He had an account in London v1th the Swha Bank Corporation, Waterloo Place•.

In business deali~a pe waa kno~ b7 his colleagues as a sharp trader, and not entire~ to be truate4, le almost alwqs worked alone, although HOJ'S reports that BAJaS~CS once offered him a partnership. When he was not succe88tul in obtaining the results he wanted, HABlCRSTOCX usually bro'QCht in hi..wife, who was kno.wn gener­ all y as one of the chief rea•on• for hie eucceas.

II. · YARTIMI ACTIVlTT

RAJ\J!RSTOCX• a career was crowned w1 tb hia appointment by HlTLBR as chief adviser to POSS•. In ~his capacity, he we.a able to exert a direct and powerful itdluence on the formation of HITLD1 s co~lection for Linz, and became so intluential that he dared to oppose OO~UG. His act1v1ty in this connection 1a described in CIR 14.

lor his work outside of Germe.ny, BAm:RSTOCX carried the follow­ i ng do cumt.nts :

(a) Special designation ae advieer to the Di~ector of tlle Son4erauftrM LiM:

(b) A l etter from the Adjutant of ~he Vebrmaoht:

(c) J. letter signed by lleicbamarecball OOSiliG;

(d) J. letter from the Commander in Cbiof of 0.1'1111.11 lorces in Jranco - Xupata9butz Division.

(Bote: Items (b), (c) and (d) were used b7 BiWS10CZ lA ·~nc ~be paa~ acroaa frontier• of abipMnta of bil pm'chuea to Ge~.)

1'-MOCK had tvo croups of epnta woHinc toll ad8 ln hiDce 4w1Jlc tM 1er. !be moet 1•1"'-' .a eaw.4 u •...s.a. Dl o\ber operated ~ut tbe JrH Ina. 'PU'tlslar1,J- lD 7aw._. a.re tollowa a brief acc:ount of the acute who made up. ---jr:p... ad \belr act1.tt1ea: · .. '

· A. --P&l'h ~ . rl ' • H•BIBBm~•• intereata iD Paril war'- aorved b7 a DWDber of agents who operated ind1Ti4ual~. There 1a no evi~ce. that th87 in any~ constituted an orcanisation, altheuch t~ were well known to one another.

22 Blvd. Maloaborboa I An Auatrian retuceo vbo bad come to Parii bofo'r o tho war, be vaa HABJRS1'0CJt• a chief Paris .aco.nt. He sold ~1. ~.*os to H~IR$TOCX, and also acted as bia .general . . .ropreaontative..· . · · In bills presented. on 1 Ju.i3: and 27 November 1941, DamL lists tho following service~ re~dered: ~ · . "Running exponaee fo~ tr1~a lD&4e in July and November . 11 . . . ., 11 PacldD8 and sblp~ing of pictures apd books."

"Tips to VILm:NSTJ:IN, DGJ!lL ..~d DIUSSD employees." I ' • "Printing and sendin& New Year' a cards. 11

ENGJlL is ropeatodly referred to in HABIRSTOCX!.a 9.0~reapondenc~ as the person to whom art objects, letters, message·~~e~en vine, are to bo sent tor keeping or forwarding. In a l e ttor of 15 to D. BOUC~~ . 36 : ~v~ • . de, ~t~llon, concerning the .purchase of pictures, .BN<$t.r s addre.sa ,\.8 givtm as o/o (io Hauao)· Wl!.DJlfSTEill, 57 rue de le,, !oet.1e.:· · : : ·. :. · · :: · • o I :. • • • • • • ;·, . : .. t • ENGEL served as BAB~T9CX•s . intermediary with the following -firma: · · ·

.. WACQR :BONDY, shippers and packers, 236 Blvd. ~spa.il SCRJ:NKJ!!R Co. , shippers and packers, 6 ruo M8,v:ran Charles :BU>T, packers, 14 rue de Pentbievre · · Alexan4re VliLAT, packers, 7-9 rue de Pentbievre Maison StALL, frame makora and reetor•a of sculpture, 11 rue Treilbard R. GAUTRIJ:R, photographer, 2 rue :Bufta.ult

Served ae· II.ABIRS!OCS• 1 repreaentative in German official circles and on a hllber 11 ~c1al' lovel. I• .a in. cloae tol~Cb wlth ~Y at the tice of tho WILDIIUr.DlN 1 arp.aS.u.UoD, • u4 tti.e latter'• boot­ lickin« letters 1dentif7 hiJ:l aa ~, ~. moat lJ:Iportant Germ'an colb.borator. · . Von PO&LI'ITZ served aa an 1,ntermo41arl' tor a IUDber of' PeOPle who viahecl to sell to BAB'IRM'OCI, MDDC th• Bvp GAIILL ( 66 bil rue Sebaatian Mercier) and A. JIOLlAIDD (19 rue Mon.al.v). aYiclence

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obtained from o.ther vitneasea shOW.. \bat von PO.ILLIITZ ued ~e HABDS'l'OOX contact to do busineu for hlmaelf on the e14e ( eee Dill 12). the fact that RAJIRS'roCZ and hh vito took postwar retup' in von PO&LJITZ• caatle ~t .Uohbach (Bam'borc) 1e final proof of the intimacy of their relationship.

Dl?I(LJOY, llogor 57 rue do la &otio

The wartime representative of tho WlLDZNSTEIN tiro. ~ore is no doubt that in addition to reproaentinc WILDDTST'EIN, lliQ,UOY . personally worked hand in hand vith BA!DSTOCK. Tho reason t-or this oq have beon in part to save what ho c;ould of the WlLDIIS3II stock, but an ioporte.nt incontive vas tho conaidorablo personal ptQlit ... dorivod froc his contact with the moat povortul of Gorce.n deal~ra. (Soo CIRs 12, 7/4.) · . \:!: ...

It oust also bo romem~o~ed ~hat w~n DIQUOY boge.n this collab­ oration, the Germans e.ppee.rod to bo winning the war. ·

His most imp~rte.nt single transaction with HABERSTOCK vas· the sale of the lllCOLAS 1\eobrandts, tor which he received a com hsion · of 1,800,000 francs. In a letter of 10 , he admitted that he acted as a scr-een and intermediary for !L\BJBSTOCX, vriting "You .. know how l:IU.ch trouble t take to obtain fino pictures for you and for the l!lllsoucs of the Reich." Hia role aa middlecan 1s further · con..: · fircod in the following documents: · ., ~·.

(a) A letter to HA»J:RSTOCK (in Gercan) written 6 br BALIM BEY MELHAMJD (113 ruo de Grenelle-),. · offering a Portrait of tho Marquis Leganea by Qoya, · and designating DIQOOY aa his intercediary.

(b) A letter of 14 Decot'lbor 1942 froc HABERSTOCK to Cese,r de llAUXE (14 rue du Cherche Midi), confirming the purchase of a picture e.nd requesting that it be sont to DIQPOY for forwarding to Berlin.

(c) A letter of 22 Septocber 1941 froc KABJRSTOCK to Dr,. ~S of tho Parh XAAat~tz, advhi-ng that. the latter consult his friend, ~Y. in a catter con­ cerning a painting by David.

(d) A letter of .20 llovecber 1941 , addressed to .DllQ.IJOY and· carked 11 Copy for MJ-. HABERSTOCK," describing conditions ·for advertising in t ho Gercan-controlled Gazette de& Beaux Arts.

In his work for HABIRSTOCK, ~y vaa most closely connec.ted with von POJ:LLlllTZ, DIS'llmM, J:NGXL, an4 Maclaoe Jano wzn,L. Moroover, conaiderin« his establiahod aasoeiation vlth J'ABUlfl, it eefaes likely that the latter cq also have played an important part in this group's activity. J'urther investigation in this matter 1a recopeonded.

-VJIYI.L, Moe. Jane 178 bis Blvd. Berthior RepOrted to have been von lOILLlllft• s miatrese, and an acent for HA'BJBS'l'OOK. Her cain Job wal to btd for hie at ealee in the Salle •• :

DBOUO~ and to llqvo &a his internediary wit~ the CoQD111aires Priseurs, AIIm and Maurice DIMS. She tecoe to. have bad eooe sort ot official connection with .Alii!. Thel'e aro receipts tor p~ntiD88 bought by RA!liRSmcx, signed by Moe. WJYLL on 23 and 24 . RA:BDSTOCK vroto to her on 4 April 1941, thanki~ her for previous services and adding a request that she got in touch with Prince Philipp von BESSE&. . .. ,.

0 . : : :-.::- --. Mla·LER, Dr. Sinon 3 rue du Gonoral APP,ert

HABERSTOCK wrote to M'ILLIR on several occasions, requesting urgent!¥ tha.t ho find hie good piot-.u-es.' In March 19•1 MILLER was the oiddlecan when BA»IRSTOCK purchased the large llubons Vonue BJld Adonia froo Joan SOBMlT. This picture was lator the cause of troubl~ between HABERSTOclc and GOJ:RING. ! See CIR 12 and DIR Ill.. ) MELLER• s comoiasion 'was 60,000 francs. He also worked with Hugo lllNGJ:L, JURSCH:BlWITZ and August L. MAlER. .

LOEBL, Ali 9 rue de l'Echelle

In add1 tion to his activity with the YENDLAJm..llOITJIL group (see CIR 12), ICEBL acted as one ot HA'BI:RS'roCX• s 88ents, particularly in the expertising of collections. On 25 November 1941, LOEBL presented a bill for traveling and other expenses in connecti,on with a tr~p to Dijon a.nd expertiaes ca.de there, and the expertise of the PATRIO~ Collection. On 24 Noveober he· again presented a bill, for the expertising of the GBOULT Collection and for advances ~de to RABER­ STOC~ in connection with the purchase of photographs from GAUTHIER, tips to ADER•s secretary, and the purchase of office equipment. On 2? Noveober LOEBL acted a.s exper:\ e.nd interoedie.r;y in the purchase of paintings from Charles MICHEL (19 Ave. de Tourville) .

SUESS Director, Hotel Ritz

H~IRSTOCX corresponded regularly with SUISS, who made contacts for him with other Gemans visiting Paris - for instance, the ubiquitous Prince Philipp von m:ssm. RfVI:mBSTOOlt also had funds deposi..ted with ~S. ·on 15 Karch 1941, he wrote that Dr. MELLm would deposit 300,000 francs in this tund.

:B. :free Zone

RABEBSTOCK's activity was centered in southern lrance, where many :of the German dealers believed that art discoveries could be made . His acti~ties there seem to haTe been conduoted through two chief intermediaries. each of whom, in turn, controlled a certain number ef hie own contacts.

BALL, Alexander Paris, 9 rue Royale Aix-en-Provence, Hotel du Palala

A former Jerlin dealer, :BALL bad be~n a r&tugee in laris shortly before the, war and had worked w1th JABS•. After the in~ion he

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moved to .Ux, where he aouc:bt out prhate collector• wbo would be willing te aell to the Germa.n•. On 3 Ja.nua.J7 1941, he wrote HABm5TOClt about a van D¥ck and a lreughel discovered in a colleo­ tion near Lyon. Ria brother, Richard, who lived at the Hotel Mediterranee, Marseille, worked for him. !oth are reported to have reached the United States aucceastull.y. Seem in this 11cht, their work for BABIRSTOCK may be considered as an understandable means of escaping the fate of ~ of their fellowa. However, in a paasage of the aame letter of 3 ·to HABaSTOOX, Alexander. ~ did more than indicate picturea. Ift the clodnc paJ'agraph of this letter he wrote, "Mr. ~de R. lives in La !ourboule." ~· pa~sage refers to ~ de ROTHSCiliLD, and appears to answer a query from RABJmSTOCK as to his whereabouts. The implication• of such a ·. ~evola.tion are exceedingly grave, and BALL should be broucbt to account. · ..·: Simone de !EAUPERTHUYS, Avenue de la Grande Ar!Dee, Paris, vas llALL• s secreta.ry. Be oftoro4 heJ' aofVlb~• to ~IBS~CK. and-she is known to have broueht him several pe.iniinca. .

~.Herbert Nice, 70 Jlvd. J'ranooia Grosso ' (tGJ>merly !lvd.· Oe.mbett.a.) . Son of Hugo ENGEL, but apparently on bad terms with hie father. Bo acted as HABERSTOCK• s "cutout" and "mail box" for a&ents who were looking for pictures in southern J'rance. !he moat important of . these appeared in the correspondence "as "Bonri AN'l'OID," an expert w~m HABJ:aS'roCK held in some respect. HA!ERSTOCK, in a letter of 12 September 1943, asked whetheJ' ANTOUllil bad any info. · '\tion about certain collections to be liquidatea by the J'ronch State. On 10 October 1941, he sent questions for transmission to AN'l'OINll concern­ ing a painting by Goya. A letter of 6 Ma¥ 1943 revealed that ANTOINE must have proviousl:y reported on Vli2mU.ND 1 s recent viait to the Sout~. Comparison of a. letter from AITOINI with an expertise written by August L. MAYEa, the vell known German authority on · Spanish painting, tenc).s .to indicate that they wero one and the same man. MAYJIR disappeared in 1944, and ONDL.U1D reported that lie met his end in the gas chamber. '1'he detaila ot hil work to~ German dealers during this period are not clear: nor is the ato17 of his falling into the, hands of tho SS-- tn spite of tho possibilities of protection he enjoyed from HABZRSTOCK .a,nd others.

Another of Herbert liiNGXL• a informants waa Arthur OOLDSCHMID'l , who. prior to his escape to Cuba, also worked as a i)icture scout . fer !14!11l~TOCJt. ·In September 1943, attor hie eacape. ltlGIL ~ wrote to HA.BZRS'roOK that he was "doing hh beat to replace him." .. . : ·

Herbert ERO&L escaped to Switzerland in 1g43. In a postcard tram Zvioh dated 1?· ~ 1943, he wrote 'AliFS!OOE tb.a:~ 1» -.aa 1\viDC with hilr ahter, ·ha DIW'4BP'D (ltcittab=cbcr••e), aad offered hie aervicea tor ~h1nc that 'U•a~Clt m1pt --~ in Bv1 tserland. · •

SII«l)l, O. Wice, 17 llvd. ~ate ~d

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the war: he alao ottered picture•, S.nctuc!J.Ac a B~l, ~ ~~~ STOCK thrc~ J:llGJL. , ...... :· • " to 0 ., L I .... l ai. TB.AVliL . ,.. :...... •. HABERS'l'OCK tr~veled extenlivoly duriac..the war.-1 Hi~ activi­ ties in !'ranee, which he viaited more often ~ban..the other countries, have already bean desertbed. . ·. '· · .., ... . . He went to Holland in 1940, and,· in p~tn(!rBhip w1 th ll>ELJ!lR, negotiated tho purchaao of the OU~ ail~~~ .collection. A complete dossier of this transaction is available in tho files ot tho Central Collecting Peint, Munich, and a report on the matter has' been pro­ pared by Cap,tain Vlug ot· the Xhtoh tervio4ll~ ~:- lt · w~s dw:_ing this vialt that HA.lDIB.Gt.L'oClt claim& to have plafad e. p~t in· the l:-iberation of li'RIEilLAENIIDl. ~Clt asia that he 'ri'8i t~d Swi tr:eri:aild once during the war to settle oertain of his affc.irs with J'lSOBllR, Be cla i ms to have made no purchases at that time . Ho also vig.rously de.niee having any aseoh in Swiharland. His presezlce inr-Italy has also been reportod, but not contirmod. · · ·- · •. IV. BEPOSITORIES

have paintings and oth!3r belongings

·Boidenhaim Schloss Turn :- Schless Poollnitc, at Aaohbach .. In all likelihood he has funds conooalod in Swl tzorland and lranoo. Tho rooent activitioa and travel of Hugo 31~, apparontly connectod with tho VIIDLAHD interesta in Paria, ahould bo inveetigatod for pos­ sible HABIRSTOCK connectione.

V• OOliaLUSIONS AND UOOIOG:HWIONS.

A. It 1a rocommonded urgently that HABDBTOCX bo tN-eationed turthor reprding hie knowledge of the aotivitiee of J4BUBI and :BALL, and in parti~,. . the diaappearance of MAYa• . :S. · It 1a recollllleDded that ho be tried on the aame lenl aa the 1-.cUng mabera of the Son4trp(1jry L'ne. He wae, ~114 8P.'I peael­ ble doubt, one of the indivUaala aoat reaponll'ble for 'ha polloiea and activities of this group which 4em1nated German otfiotal purchaa­ ing and contieeatton of works of art from 1939 throucb 1944.

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Ader 5 Antoine, Henri 6

~~ kl.l, Alexander _!, 6, 7 Ball, Richard 6 !eauper~a. Simone de 6 "' Beaux Arts, Gazette de 4 Bisson, ~. 3 Blot, Charles 3 llo~er 7 Bot.tol .. 5 Bouchene, D. 3 Breuer 3

Cabell, Serge 8

I Dequey, Boger 3, 4 ·Destram 4 D0uasen 3 Drouot, Sal}.e 5

hgel, Horbort 6 Eng~l, Hugo 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

J'abiani 4, 7 Jeiorabond, Frau 6 Jischor, Thoedor 2, 7 J'riedlaender ?

Ge.uth1er, R. a, 5 Goering, Reichsoarshall 2, 6 Goldschcidt, Arthur 6 Groult Collection 5 Outmann 7

Halim Bey Molhaco 4 Raucko, ·Cesar de 4­ Rossen, Prince Phillip von 5 Hitler 1, 2 Hofer 2

Jansen 5 J~schowitz 5

Xue tgens, Dr-. 4 Xunatecbutz 4 .. Lin• 1, 2, ? Loobl, Ali ~ Jlqer, Au&u•t L. 5, 6, 7 Meller, Dr. Slmon 3, ! Michel, Charles -s Bicolaa 4

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Vol~, Alexandre 3

Wacker l3ondy 3 Wendland 5, . 6; 7 Weyll, !foe. Jane !· 5 . Vilden'stein, Georges 2, 3, 4 .. .. :­

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