Sabine Loitfellner

Studied history and political science at the University of Vienna. Since 2024 employee of the Austrian Commission for Provenance Research at the Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport (BMKÖS) in the field of provenance research and heir search; editor of the Lexicon of Austrian Provenance Research. From 2002 to 2023 employee of the Jewish Community Vienna/Department for Restitution Affairs. Previously long-standing collaboration in research projects on approaches to Nazi crimes after 1945 and dealing with the past in Austria (FWF, Austrian National Bank Anniversary Fund, Investigation Office for Post-War Justice) and Wehrmacht crimes ("History in the Making", Ruth Wodak/Walter Manoschek); 2000–01 Austrian Historical Commission (Nazi asset expropriation and restitution in Austria).

 

 

Ernst Adolf Bunzl, son of the court lawyer Theodor Bunzl and his wife Isabella, née Bachstetz, graduated in law in 1913 and worked as a lawyer starting in 1920.

Born in Břeclav in 1885, Valerie Marie - known as Vally - Hoffmann married Josef Honig, president of the M. Honig AG spinning and knitting factory in Heidenreichstein, in 1906.

Josef Morgenstern worked from the 1920s as a commercial agent and Prokurist (authorized signatory) for banks and the pipe industry in Vienna and Amsterdam. At the same time he studied political science at the University of Vienna, obtaining his doctorate in 1928.

Max Oppenheimer was born in Vienna as the older of two sons of Ludwig Oppenheimer (1828-1903), co-founder of the journalists‘ and writers’ association Concordia, and his wife Regina (neé Knina, 1851-1921).

The dentist Heinrich Rieger lived with his wife Berta and three children in an apartment in Vienna’s 7th district  at Mariahilferstraße 124, where he also had his dental practice.

Erwin Rosenthal, born in Breslau, was the only son of the doctor, musician and composer Felix Rosenthal and his wife Elisabeth, née Donat, known as Else.

On 1 August 1940, the Reich Ministry of the Interior issued a decree ordering the Vienna Gestapo to expropriate the assets and property stored with transport companies or in public warehouses of emigrated Jews who came under the provisions regarding the annulment of German citiz