Acclaimed stage actor at Vienna's Burgtheater during the 1910's and 20's. Of Jewish ancestry, he was arrested after the Austrian 'Anschluss' in March 1938 and later murdered at the Treblinka concentration camp.
On 13 March 1931, he was made an Honorary Citizen of Vienna.
On July 10th, 1942 -at the age of 81- he was brought to Theresienstadt with Transport 30, after that followed a transfer to Treblinka with Transport Bq on September 23rd of the the same year. His exact date of death can't be defined with certainty.