Emil Kornfeld (1866–1937), son of Ignatz Kornfeld and Charlotte Weissenstein, first husband of Jeanette Schenker (known in the Kornfeld family as Jenny); the couple were married on July 30, 1893, and had two sons, Erich and Felix. The family lived in Aussig (Austria). Little is known of Emil's firm, Klaber & Kornfeld, but a page survives in Schenker's diary (OJ 1/10, p. 133 verso, June 1911), with the printed letterhead:
It may perhaps have been a chemical manufacturing company; both sons were involved in it, and possibly Jeanette, too. Emil and Schenker were apparently very close friends from sometime in the early 1890s to 1910, and between 1903 and 1908 they spent several summer holidays together, probably including Jeanette. Jeanette left her husband and sons for Schenker on September 30, 1910, moving to Vienna; from that time all mention of her was forbidden by Emil, although Jeanette is known to have made attempts to contact her sons. Emil resisted petitions for separation on the part of Jeanette for at least seven years (the attorneys being Dr. Steinitz (for Jeanette), Dr. Hübsch, and Dr. Glassner), insisting that Jeanette return to him. Only after changes in the laws did Jeanette succeed: the petition was approved on November 10, 1919, and Heinrich and she married later the same day. No correspondence between Emil Kornfeld and Schenker is known to survive. In Schenker's post-1910 diaries his name is coded as "Kfld." or "der Krämer" (the grocer) or "der Gegner" (the adversary). Sources: |
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