Karl Kraus - The Last Days of Mankind

GOLDMANN, Paul (1856–1935), Berlin correspondent of → Neue Freie Presse: 351ff.

GOMPERZ, Philipp von (1860–1948), banker, witnessed assassination of his friend, prime minister →Stürgkh: 34.

GORIZIA (German: Görz, Map D4), town on →Isonzo, Austrian since 1814, disputed with Italy (1916–18); scene of fierce fighting, evacuated by Austro-Hungarian army in sixth battle of →Isonzo (August 1916), retaken October 1917: 252, 334.

GORLICE (Map F3) in Polish →Galicia. Battle of Gorlice-Tarnów, a Russian disaster (May 1915), initiated offensive of Central Powers against Russia and reoccupation of Galicia: 129, 252, 359, 420.

GRABEN (Plan C3), site of →Plague Column: 167, 173, 238, 316f, 486.

GREY, Edward (1862–1933), Viscount (1916), British foreign minister (1905–16), instigator of Triple Alliance, failed to reconcile Austria-Hungary and →Serbia in 1914: 80, 87, 220, 308, 370.

GRINZING, beyond →Gersthof, where the north-west fringe of the city meets the Vienna Woods, archetypal location of “Heurige” (wine gardens and restaurants selling new-vintage wines): 174, 196.

GRODNO (Map G1), under Russia since 1795, taken by Central Powers (September 1915): 279.

GRÜNER, Franz (1887–1917), Austrian art historian, close friend of Karl Kraus, killed in battle: 510f.

GRÜNFELD, Alfred (1852–1924), composer and pianist: 233.

HAAS, Baron Philipp von Teichen (1859–1926), ennobled carpet manufacturer. His wife, Hedwig, Baroness von Waechter, was an amateur actress and writer: 236.

HABSBURGERGASSE (Plan C3), behind →Hofburg: 65, 66.

HADRAWA, possibly Joseph Johann (1869–1950), popular poet and songwriter: 33.

HAESELER, Count Gottlieb von (1836–1919), Prussian general: 271.

“HAIL TO THEE IN LAURELS CROWNED” (“Heil Dir im Siegerkranz”), royal anthem of Prussia and unofficial national anthem of German Empire (1871–1918), music (to melody of “God Save the King”) by Heinrich Carey (c. 1690–1743)/Balthasar Gerhard Schumacher (1755–c. 1802) and text by Heinrich Harries (1762–1802): 300, 313, 525.

“HALF ASLEEP”, sonnet by Kraus in → Die Fackel , F 474–83 (May 1918): 478.

“HAPPY, HAPPY FOLK ARE WE” (“Jessas na, uns geht’s guat”), song, music by Johann Sioly (1843–1911) and lyrics by Alexander Hornig (1885–1947): 219.

HARDEN (Witkowski), Maximilian (1861–1927), founder of Berlin weekly Die Zukunft (The Future, 1892), confidant of Bismarck; initially pro-war, converted to pacifism; erstwhile adviser and friend to Kraus: 78, 132, 427, 485.

HARRACH, Count Franz von (1870–1937), →Franz Ferdinand’s chamberlain: 38, 121.

HARTMANN’S, restaurant on →Kärntnerring (Plan C4), beside the →Opera: 32.

HAUBITZER (howitzer), play on names, alluding to the painter and war artist Carl Leopold Hollitzer (1847–1942): 118.

HAUS, Baron Anton von (1851–1917), Admiral of the Fleet, led attack on Italy’s →Adriatic coast in May 1915: 176.

HAYMERLE, Baron Franz von (1874–1917), Austrian diplomat, based in Berlin at the outbreak of war: 345ff.

HEADQUARTERS of Austro-Hungarian army: Vienna (July 1914), →Przemysl (August 1914), Neu-Sandez/Neusandec (September 1914), →Teschen (November 1914), →Baden (January 1917): 177f, 222, 252, 272f, 482f, 531, 583.

HEDIN, Sven Anders von (1865–1962), Swedish writer, German sympathizer: 127.

HEINOLD, Baron Karl Heinold von Udynski (1862–1943), minister of the interior (1911–15): 35, 76.

HEINRICH FERDINAND, Archduke (1878–1969), captain of horse, relieved of duties on health grounds (1916): 276.

HEINRICHSHOF (Plan C4/C5), café opposite the →Opera: 102.

HEISSLER, Count Donat Johann Heissler von Heitersheim (1648–1696), founder of Dragoon Regiment Kaiser 11: 493.

HELLER, Hugo (1850–1923), bookseller, editor of periodical Wiener Buch- und Kunstschau: 45, 508.

“HE MADE A BRIDGE” →“Prince Eugene March”.

HENKEL, Max (1870–1941), German gynaecologist: 333f.

HERBSTMANÖVER ( Autumn Manoeuvres , aka The Gay Hussars , 1909), operetta, music by Emmerich Kálmán (1882–1953) and libretto by Karl von Balonyi (1873–1926): 30, 170.

HERMANNSTADT (Map G4), mainly German-speaking city, in Hungarian Transylvania (with predominantly German-speaking and Romanian population) until 1918: 248.

HERTLING, Count Georg von (1843–1919), German chancellor and Prussian prime minister (November 1917–September 1918): 433f.

HERZBERG-FRÄNKEL, Siegmund (1857–1913), historian, lawyer, journalist: 44.

HETMAN, Pawel Petrovitch Scoropadski (1883–1945), Russian general, appointed “Hetman” (leader) after German intervention in Ukraine (April 1918): 431.

HIETZING, erstwhile summer retreat for the nobility, adjacent to →Schönbrunn: 190.

HINDENBURG, Paul von (1847–1934), German military commander who became a national hero after the battle of →Tannenberg (August 1914) and, with Ludendorff, head of what became in practice a military dictatorship (1916–18): 108, 133, 172, 174, 197, 247f, 259, 263f, 271, 290, 296, 299, 301, 303, 325, 326ff, 351ff, 401, 437, 458, 463, 468, 488, 503, 525.

HIRSCH, Julius Ferdinand (1874–1942), local news editor on → Neue Freie Presse: 200f, 233ff.

HIRSCHFELD, Ludwig (1882–1945), dramatist, feature writer, critic, and war correspondent for → Neue Freie Presse . The allusion in V, 30, is to Kraus’s critique in Die Fackel of October 1917 (F 462–71, 124–27) of a Hirschfeld article glamorizing the situation in war-torn →Lemberg, which had appeared in the Neue Freie Presse on 12 August: 470.

HOCHSINGER, Carl (1860–1942), physician: 234, 237.

HÖCKER, Paul Oskar (1865–1944), prolific German novelist, known for his war memoir An der Spitze meiner Kompagnie (1919): 126.

HOEHN, Maximilian von (1867–1940), major-general, acting head of →War Archive, head of →War Press Bureau: 481.

HOFBURG (Plan B3/B4), imperial palace: 186, 257, 448, 481.

HOFBURGTHEATER (commonly known as Burgtheater, Plan B3), court theatre on Franzensring, celebrated for ensemble performances of serious plays: 493.

HÖFER VON FELDSTURM, Franz (1861–1918), field marshal, signatory of official communiqués (→Lemberg): 102, 117, 131, 576.

HÖFER VON FELDSTURM, Irma (1865–1919), m. →Franz Höfer von Feldsturm, author of romantic novels In der engen Gasse (1911), Offizierstöchter (1912): 118, 493.

HOFMANNSTHAL, Hugo von (1874–1929), poet whose susceptibility to military heroism (→Prince Eugene essay, 1915) and propaganda for the Austrian cause provoked the satirist’s hostility: xix, 74, 107ff.

HOFRAT, official title awarded for distinguished public service.

HOHENLOHE, “Mappl”, possibly Prince Gottfried zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1860–1933), member of Upper House: 122.

“HONEY, HONEY, DON’T BE SO HARD” (“Weibi, Weibi, sei doch nicht so hart”), song, music by Karl Haupt (1876–1934) and text by Edmund Skurawy (1869–1933): 492.

HONORARY COUNSELLOR (Kaiserlicher Rat), title awarded to nonentities for supposed public service.

HOPFNER’S, fashionable restaurant in →Kärntnerstrasse (Plan C4): xii, xvii, 29, 30, 49, 171, 242, 319, 419.

HÖTZENDORF, Franz Conrad von (1853–1925, generally known as Conrad), Chief of Staff of Austro-Hungarian army (1906–11) and advocate of preemptive strike against →Serbia. Reappointed in 1912, he was responsible for Austro-Hungarian reverses that left them dependent on Germany; Supreme Commander on Italian front; dismissed in 1917 after disagreement with Emperor Karl I over war aims. His son, Lieutenant Herbert Conrad von Hötzendorf, died in battle (September 1914): 38, 63, 102, 129, 222f, 226, 271, 274, 278, 307, 325.