# Daniel Mandl

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**Daniel Mandl** (April 20, 1891 – March 23, 1945) was a [civil engineer](/source/Civil_engineer), [inventor](/source/Inventor), and a student of [anthroposophy](/source/Anthroposophy).

## Life

Daniel Mandl was born in [Prostějov](/source/Prost%C4%9Bjov), [Moravia](/source/Moravia). He studied engineering at the [University of Vienna](/source/University_of_Vienna), [Austria](/source/Austria). During [World War I](/source/World_War_I), he commanded an [artillery](/source/Artillery) unit of the [Austro-Hungarian Army](/source/Austro-Hungarian_Army), and fought in [Albania](/source/Albania). A decorated officer, he resumed his studies after World War I. Upon graduation, he was employed by the General Electrical Company in [Berlin](/source/Berlin). He was involved in the [electrification](/source/Electrification) of [Slovakia](/source/Slovakia), and he introduced the then-new technology of [arc welding](/source/Arc_welding) to [Czechoslovakia](/source/Czechoslovakia), making improvements to arc welding [electrodes](/source/Electrodes). He was a student of [anthroposophy](/source/Anthroposophy).

After the annexation of rump Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany on March 15, 1939, Mandl held a teaching position in the Technical School founded by the [Brno](/source/Brno) Jewish community. He was deported from [Brno](/source/Brno) to the [Terezin](/source/Theresienstadt_concentration_camp) ([Theresienstadt](/source/Theresienstadt) [ghetto](/source/Ghetto) on March 31, 1942, together with his wife Hajnalka and his son Tommy ([Herbert Thomas Mandl](/source/Herbert_Thomas_Mandl)). In Terezin, Mandl worked in the Jewish self-administration.[1] He participated in the Jewish cultural life in the ghetto, delivering at least one lecture, titled "A Chapter from Some Thoughts On the History of Humanity," on June 23, 1944.[2]

Mandl and his son were deported from [Theresienstadt concentration camp](/source/Theresienstadt_concentration_camp) to [Auschwitz-Birkenau](/source/Auschwitz-Birkenau) on September 28, 1944. Unbeknownst to his son Tommy at the time, Tommy was the only one selected for the transport but his father volunteered to go with him. From [Auschwitz](/source/Auschwitz), the Mandls were transported, in turn, to several [Dachau](/source/Dachau_concentration_camp)-[Kaufering](/source/Kaufering_concentration_camp) subcamps, where Mandl died March 23, 1945, a mere six weeks before the end of [World War II](/source/World_War_II) (cf. testimonies of his son, Herbert Thomas Mandl).

## References

1. [Herbert Thomas Mandl's *Die Wette des Philosophen*](http://www.boerverlag.de/MANDL2.HTM)

1. [*University over the Abyss*](https://web.archive.org/web/20060518062502/http://makarovainit.com/first.htm)

- Herbert Thomas Mandl: *Erinnerungen an Daniel Mandl und Viktor Ullmann.* in: Novalis 1997/98, Nr. 12/1

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