Family Card - Person Sheet
NameFritz Spiegl 
Birth27 Jan 1926
DeathMar 2003
FatherRudolf Spiegl (1889-1967)
MotherJosefine Finny Geiringer (1890-1953)
Notes for Fritz Spiegl
{geni:occupation} Grafiker, Musiker, Musikwissenschaftler
{geni:about_me} Note: '''Fritz Spiegl''' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Spiegl Wikipedia]" Son of an agricultural merchant and his Jewish wife. He became a musician, journalist, broadcaster, humorist and collector who lived and worked in England from 1939. He was a distant relative of the composer [http://www.geni.com/people/Gustav-Mahler/6000000007265312908 ''Gustav Mahler']'.
In 1939 '''Fritz''' and his sister, neither of whom spoke English or knew anything of music, were sent separately to England. He was one of 3 children taken in by the War Secretary Captain Margesson and his American wife; a married couple came along to look after the children. The Margessons taught '''Fritz''' English and sent him to Magdalen College School, near Banbury. At 15 '''Spiegl''' invented a model aeroplane which had another riding piggy-back upon it. The two were rigged together with a series of pulleys and elastic bands and, to his delight, the contraption could fly a short distance. The results were published in Model Aeroplane magazine. Thereafter '''Spiegl''' was hooked on the printed media..", [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ obituary] on Telegraph.co. uk, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2003/mar/25/broadcasting.artsobituaries another], a Thread and [http://www.forschungsgesellschaft.at/emigration/fspiegl/fspiegl_bio_d.htm article-2]
{geni:about_me} Note: '''Fritz Spiegl''' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Spiegl Wikipedia]" Son of an agricultural merchant and his Jewish wife. He became a musician, journalist, broadcaster, humorist and collector who lived and worked in England from 1939. He was a distant relative of the composer [http://www.geni.com/people/Gustav-Mahler/6000000007265312908 ''Gustav Mahler']'.
In 1939 '''Fritz''' and his sister, neither of whom spoke English or knew anything of music, were sent separately to England. He was one of 3 children taken in by the War Secretary Captain Margesson and his American wife; a married couple came along to look after the children. The Margessons taught '''Fritz''' English and sent him to Magdalen College School, near Banbury. At 15 '''Spiegl''' invented a model aeroplane which had another riding piggy-back upon it. The two were rigged together with a series of pulleys and elastic bands and, to his delight, the contraption could fly a short distance. The results were published in Model Aeroplane magazine. Thereafter '''Spiegl''' was hooked on the printed media..", [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ obituary] on Telegraph.co. uk, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2003/mar/25/broadcasting.artsobituaries another], a Thread and [http://www.forschungsgesellschaft.at/emigration/fspiegl/fspiegl_bio_d.htm article-2]