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Baron Viktor Gutmann von Gelse und Belišće (October 3, 1891 – February 17, 1946) was Croatian nobleman and industrialist who was killed by the communist regime of Yugoslavia. Baron Gutmann was born in Belišće on October 3, 1891 to a noble Croatian Jewish family Gutmann. His father, Baron Alfred Gutmann von Gelse und Belišće, was married to Ottilie (née Pollak von Rudin) Gutmann and his uncle was Baron Edmund Gutmann. Whole Gutmann family was awarded with a hereditary peer ''Baron von Gelse und Belišće''. Baron Gutmann was married to Luise Bloch-Bauer with whom he had a son Franjo and daughter Nelly. He graduated as a mechanical engineer at the Vienna University of Technology. After graduation he served in the Austro-Hungarian Army on the Eastern Front during World War I. Baron Gutmann was awarded with Military Merit Medal and several others valor medals. After the war he returned to Belišće to work at his family company "H.S. Gutmann". At first he worked under his cousin Baron Artur Gutmann who was the oldest son of Baron Edmund Gutmann. After his cousin death, Baron Gutmann and his brother Ernest took over the company. Baron Gutmann and his brother have expanded the company, build up and developed Belišće. Gutmann family was very loved and popular in Belišće and among company employees. During World War II Baron Gutmann company was nationalised by the Independent State of Croatia regime. As Jews, in 1943, Baron Gutmann, his wife and children where arrested and taken by Ustaše to prison at Savska street. Baron Gutmann and his family managed to survive the Holocaust. After the war Baron Gutmann, as an idealist, returned to Belišće to assist in the reconstruction of the country. In 1945 Baron Gutmann was arrested by the newly founded communist regime of SFR Yugoslavia as a "capitalist and aristocrat" under false charges of collaboration with the Nazis. Baron Gutmann was sentenced to death and executed in 1946.〔 Obzor (Tjedni Magazin Večernjeg lista); ''Tragedija bogate židovske obitelji Gutmann''; broj 451, 10. lipanj, 2012.〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Viktor Gutmann」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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