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Alfred Mautner (* June 25, 1886 in Vienna (Wien-Hernals) † June 21, 1945 in London) was an Austrian architect who was persecuted by the Nazis because of his Jewish heritage.

Life
Mautner's father, Samuel Mautner(1838-1905), was a Bohemian railroad official.

Together with Johann Rothmüller, Alfred Mautner founded a construction company in Mauer near Vienna in 1921. From 1922 to 1938 he also worked as a haulage contractor for passenger transport. Mautner and Rothmüller's first joint project was the construction of the buildings for the monumental film Sodom and Gomorrah in 1921/22. In 1929 Alfred Mautner opened a flower shop in Vienna-Josefstadt not far from his home. The construction company was dissolved in 1931 and Mautner resigned his license as a master builder.

Nazi era

In 1938 Austria merged with Hitler's Third Reich in the Anschluss, with immediate consequences for Jews due to the Nazis' anti-Jewish racial laws. Mautner fled to England because of his Jewish background.

There he married Elsa Gold in 1939.

Buildings as an architect (selection)

 * Löwenkino in Wien-Landstraße (built 1922; together with Johann Rothmüller)
 * Gersthof Maternity Hospital, now Gersthof Orthopedic Hospital in Vienna-Hernals (built 1924-1926; jointly with Johann Rothmüller)