PROFESSOR FREUD

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23546, 5 January 1940, Page 4

PROFESSOR FREUD

ESTATE IN ENGLAND ! ' ; NAZIS SEIZE REMAINDER "Jfbom our own correspondent] n.-«b ' LONDON, Dec. 16 " The estate of Professor Sigmund Freud, founder of the science of psycho-analysis, who died in London on September 23, which has been valued at £22,850, would have been larger but for the seizure by the Nazi. Government of iiis property in Vienna." A member of his family now resident in London stated that the professor had to leave behind -him in Vienna property •worth some £IO,OOO. He was allowed, however, to,, bring away his private library. Professor Freud, who until recently was professor of neurology in the University of Vienna, gave all his copyrights and interests in copyrights upon trust to pay the net royalties on profits. to the issue of his children attaining majority other than Ernst Halberstadt, son of his late daughter. Sophie. His collection of antiques and his collection of books on psychology and psycho-analysis to his daughter, Anna Freud. He also bequeathed an annuity of- £3OO to his sister-in-law. Minna Bernay's, and the residue to his ■wife for life. /,,. • i Dr. Jean Martin Freud, one of his eons, said yesterday:—"They thought they had got all my father's fortune, but they were wrong. They stole about half of it. But the other half?—my father managed to keep that out of their clutches; he, was too clever. "I cannot tell you exactly how he did it,-or where the money was hidden. It is a family secret. But one day, perhaps, I' may tell it, and it will mako an interesting story." It is understood by tho Daily Mail that Professor Freud spent his last days writing a' -scathing exposure of Nazi persecution, founded on his personal experiences in Vienna. England gave refuge to the brilliant 83-year-old scientist until he died peacefully in September at his home at Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead.