A local German court has fined Dr. Arthur Fuchs, top official in the West German Comptroller’s office, the equivalent of $200 for making anti-Semitic remarks about Georg Solti, one of Germany’s leading conductors and municipal music director of Frankfurt.
Mr. Solti, who has conducted such orchestras as the San Francisco, Chicago and Lisbon Symphony Orchestras, returned to Germany from Switzerland in 1946. He publicly announced his intention to quit the country if Dr. Fuchs were acquitted.
Dr. Fuchs’ insulting and anti-Semitic remarks about Mr. Solti were made in an interview with a music critic of a Frankfurt daily newspaper. The remarks came to Mr. Solti’s attention and he, together with Mr. Solti’s superior officer in the municipal administration, filed a criminal complaint against Dr. Fuchs, charging public insult.
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