Schenker Documents Online

Verein zur Speisung und Bekleidung hungernder Schulkinder in Wien (Association for Feeding and Clothing Schoolchildren in Vienna), organization founded in 1912 by Betty Kolm:

On the basis of lists from teachers, the children in question were fed lunches for a small payment; during the wartime honorary presidency of Anka Bienerth, it was transformed into the Schwarz-Gelbe Kreuz [Black-and-Yellow Cross] [website: http://www.onb.ac.at/ariadne/vfb/fv_kshk.htm]

A "Verein zur Speisung hungernder Schulkinder in Wien" was discussed three years before this founding date, in the Zentralblatt des Bundes österreichischer Frauenvereine, 4/2 (1909) [website: Zentralblatt].

Schenker was himself indirectly involved with this organization through his association with his pupil and benefactress Sofie Deutsch. Deutsch died in 1917, and evidently left a large legacy to the Verein with the stipulation that a portion of the annual yield be dedicated to the creation of two stipends a year for impecunious skilled composers and composition pupils, the choice of recipients to be made exclusively by Schenker: see OJ 12/31, [1] and [2], December 7, 1917 and July 1, 1924 (Ernst Lamberg to Schenker), and mentioned also as the "Verein zur Ausspeisung armer Schulkinder" in OJ 5/25, [1], Schenker to Josef Marx, October/December 1924.

(Schenker mentions Anka Bienerth in his letter to Hertzka (UE), WSLB 233, December 20, 1914.)