Arthur Schütz

Arthur Waldemar Schütz ( pseudonym: Tristan Busch, born January 25, 1880 in Saint Petersburg, † February 9, 1960 in Vienna) was an Austrian engineer and writer who was best known as the author of pit dogs.

Schütz was born the son of the Austrian Consul General in St. Petersburg and was a specialist in belt and drive technology and developed the pulvis couplings. In 1904 he founded for this activity an office in Vienna and was later the journal belt technical notes out.

The reporting of the Neue Freie Presse on an earthquake prompted him to write a letter with technical explanations, which appeared promptly as letter on 18 November 1911. This is considered the birth of the pit dog, the v. Winkler slept in the laboratory of Dr. Erich R. and " gave striking character biggest unrest " ahead of the approaching earthquake. As a result, he wrote numerous other pit dogs, which he was also known. 1931 came in Jahoda & Siegel, the publisher of the works of Karl Kraus, his book The pit dog. Experiments with Truth out which summarizes its activities in this regard.

During the First World War he served most recently with the rank of Captain as head of the defense censorship against Russia. Then he enlarged his office, where he earned an international reputation through modern advertising methods. In 1938 he was forced to emigrate from Austria. At the time of the Second World War he lived in England and was interned as " Enemy Aliens ". His experiences with the secret services in the two wars he utilized in the book unmasked intelligence Secretinismus (1946 ), which later appeared under the name of Major Kwaplitschka. He returned to Vienna in 1949 and led the activities of continuing in his office, the company still exists today. Pit dogs but he wrote no more.