Object #35
A summer retreat free of Jews

Reichspost. Unabhängiges Tagblatt für das christliche Volk 28/183, 6 July 1921, p. 4

Austrian National Library, Vienna 

Written to us from Salzburg: Mattsee, a lovely summer retreat, has always been a Jew-free community which took in only German Aryan summer guests. Already in previous years, it took energetic work to ward off the inrush of Jews; at the end of the season, the summer vacationers would post their thanks and acknowledgement publicly on the Abbey Square for remaining true to their principles and showing Jews the door.

This year, the situation was somewhat different; through the agency of the son-in-law of our greater German provincial vice-governor Ott, the composer Schönberg, a Jew from Prague, was smuggled into Mattsee. And as we know, where there are pigeons, other pigeons will flock to join them; suddenly, various tribesmen showed up in Jew-free Mattsee. But the local committee restored order and, in its last meeting, resolved to publish this proclamation:
 “In its meeting on 19 June, the local committee unanimously expressed its outrage that some lessors of summer lodgings in Mattsee rented them to Jews, thereby severely damaging Mattsee’s well-known reputation as a summer retreat free of Jews. Furthermore, the committee unanimously resolved in the same meeting to decree a proclamation to the lessors of summer lodgings in Mattsee, containing the ‘request to continue to keep the Mattsee locality free of Jews. The local committee of Mattsee urgently requests the populace not to rent lodgings to any Jew, so the locality will not become judaized and the German-Aryan populace will be protected from chicanery.”   
Thereupon the Mattsee summer vacationers – who had rather suffered under the arrogance of the Jews who had already immigrated – had a proclamation printed in which they thanked the community for the protection, expressing the hope that lovely Mattsee will continue to be energetically protected from becoming judaized.   
It is interesting that the son [Franz Ott] of the greater German provincial vice-governor [Max] Ott, likewise a staunch “Heil!”- shouter, spoke up volubly for the Jews. Their insulted answer to the community’s notice was silence - -.” 

Cf. Therese Muxeneder: Arnold Schönbergs Konfrontationen mit Antisemitismus (III), in: Journal of the Arnold Schönberg Center 16/2019. Edited by Eike Feß and Therese Muxeneder. Wien 2019, p. 165–254