Friedrich Regenstreif

Friedrich "Fritz" Regenstreif (1868–1941) was a Jewish industrialist and art collector whose Villa in Vienna was Aryanized along with his companies.

Life Regensteif owned lumber businesses. His companies included Krivaja Sumska Industrija A.D. (later Krivaja Forstindustrie, AG, vorm. Eissler &(or i) Ortlieb Zavidovici (in Bosnia also known as Bos. Sum ind. Ajsler I). Shareholders included the Bosnian government, merged with the former Otto Steinbeiss timber company into a forest industry syndicate "SIPAD" (Sumsko Industrijsko Produzece a.d. (Sipad) Sarajevo)), later "Aryanized" into Holzbauwerke Breslau

Family Regenstreif's son Paul was born on 21 January 1899. He married Therese (née Wolf) (1902-1991).

Regenstreif's daughter, Ellen Rose (Maexie) Illich, had three children, one of whom was the philosopher Ivan Illich.

Nazi era In March 1941, Friedrich Regenstreif was forced to sell Villa Regenstreif (building plus c. 2 hectares of land) together with its valuable inventory to the National Socialist German Labor Front (DAF) for 550,000 Reichsmark. Shortly afterwards he died. In March 1942, Regenstreif's son and heir Paul, had to flee Vienna to escape Nazi persecution. In September 1942, his daughter and heir, the then Italian citizen Ellen, emigrated to Florence via Split with her three children. After Magda Goebbels, the wife of Reich Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, showed interest in acquiring the property, it was transferred to the National Socialist People's Welfare Organization (NSV) in 1943. The NSV planned to build a convalescent home for war-disabled officers of the German Wehrmacht on the site." (Q: Press release decision no. 531/2009, Arbitration Panel for In Rem Restitution)

Literature Ivan Illich: Verlust von Welt und Fleisch o.O., 1938; Sascha Illich: Our Pötz: Pictures of my Grandfathers Villa in Pötzleinsdorf, Vienna. saschapress, 2007; Österreichischer Nationalfond, Schiedsinstanz für Naturalrestitution, Entscheidungsnummer 531/2009; ; Pressemitteilung Entscheidung Nr. 531/2009, Schiedsinstanz für Naturalrestitution;