Baron Gutmann was born in Belišće on October 3, 1891 to a noble Croatian Jewish family Gutmann. His father, Baron Alfred Gutmann von Gelse und Belišće, was married to Ottilie (née Pollak von Rudin) Gutmann and his uncle was Baron Edmund Gutmann.
He graduated as a mechanical engineer at the Vienna University of Technology.
Whole Gutmann family was awarded with a hereditary peer Baron von Gelse und Belišćest After the war he returned to Belišće to work at his family company "High School Gutmann". Gutmann family was very loved and popular in Belišće and among company employees.
During World World War II Baron Gutmann company was nationalised by the Independent State of Croatia regime.
Baron Gutmann and his family managed to survive the Holocaust. After the war Baron Gutmann, as an idealist, returned to Belišće to assist in the reconstruction of the country.
In 1945 Baron Gutmann was arrested by the newly founded communist regime of SFR Yugoslavia as a "capitalist and aristocrat" under false charges of collaboration with the Nazis. Baron Gutmann was sentenced to death and executed in 1946.
