Karl Haberstock, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Karl Haberstock

German art dealer, WWII art looter

Date of Birth: 19-Jun-1878

Place of Birth: Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany

Date of Death: 06-Sep-1956

Profession: art dealer

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Karl Haberstock (born 19 June 1878 in Augsburg; died 6 September 1956 in Munich) was a Berlin art dealer who was a member of the degenerate art Disposal Commission.
Haberstock's name appears 60 times in the Art Looting Investigation Unit (ALIU) Reports 1945-1946 and ALIU Red Flag Names List and Index.Among Haberstock's many spoliation activities documented by the ALIU was the aryanization, with the assistance of Baron von Poellnitz and Roger Louis Adolphe Dequoy, of the Wildenstein firm which then continued to trade.According to historian Jonathan Petropoulos "Haberstock, despite selling works to Göring and other Nazi elite, owed his status to Hitler alone."At the end of World War II Haberstock was arrested for his Nazi art looting activities, however he testified against Hermann Göring at the Nuremberg Trials and was subsequently released.
In the 1950s he opened a gallery in Munich living in the apartment below that of the director of Göring's art collection, Walter Andreas Hofer.None of this history has interfered with the reverence that his home city of Augsburg still holds for Haberstock.
The portrait shown in this entry hangs prominently in the city's leading Art Museum, the Schaezlerpalais, and a minor residential street bears his name.



Alternative names	Heinrich Wilhelm Trübner
Description	German painter and university teacher
Date of birth/death	3 February 1851	21 December 1917
Location of birth/death	Heidelberg	Karlsruhe
Work location	München, Frankfurt am Main, Herreninsel im Chiemsee, Odenwald, Karlsruhe
Authority control	: Q461271 VIAF: 45098537 ISNI: 0000 0001 0968 3993 ULAN: 500018062 LCCN: nr95019491 NLA: 35962610 WorldCat