Hubert Deutsch

Who is Hubert Deutsch?

Hubert Deutsch is an Austrian conductor and administrator closely connected to the Vienna State Opera.

Deutsch was born in Vienna, only child to Ernst and Maria Deutsch. His father was from Moravia and worked until retirement as an official on the Austrian State Railways. Son of a district judge, he was a quiet scholarly man who held an encyclopaedic knowledge of flowers and plants, passion he transmitted to his son during their walks in the countryside.

His mother, Maria Deutsch, born in Vienna, was a most resourceful woman who, at the time of the “Anschluss” persuaded the Nazi authorities to let her husband free after having been taken under custody. At the end of the Second World War, a time of acute shortage of food and resources in Vienna, she managed to get employed at a United States Army base, gaining access to provisions to sustain her family.