Grandmaster of one of Vienna's freemasonary lodges. He may be the Gustav Spieler who around that time was the Supreme Speaker of a Vienna lodge.

Heinrich Schenker joined a freemasons' lodge in 1906, but withdrew "for personal and substantive reasons" later that year. Schenker's diary does not record his being invited to join or his attendance at or induction into the lodge concerned (the diary lacks any entries for January‒March).

Schenker spoke in person to Dr. Spieler on November 6, 1906, to explain his reasons for withdrawing (diary, OJ 1/5, p. 26): Bei Dr Spieler dem Großmeister vom Stuhl Aufklärung wegen des Austrittes aus der Loge gegeben: persönliche (Redlich‒Gärtner) wie sachliche Gründe in freimütigster Kritik dargestellt. 2 St. dort verblieben.

With Dr. Spieler, the Grand Master of the lodge: clarification given of my withdrawal from the lodge; personal (Redlich‒Gärtner) as well as substantive reasons presented in a most candid critique. Stayed there for two hours.

On November 16, 1907, the diary records (OJ 1/6, p. 52): Rücksendung der Logeninsignien an H. Tedesco.

I send back my lodge insignia to Mr. Tedesco.

The index to Schenker's pre-1912 diary gives only these two entries under "Loge" ("Loge 26, 52"), lists Tedesco only for the above instance ("Tedesko 52"), and does not list the name "Spieler" at all.

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