Hans Ankwicz von Kleehoven, an art historian with a doctorate, joined the civil service as a concept trainee in the archive and library of the Imperial-Royal Ministry of Education in 1907. In 1912 he married the publicist and art critic Alexandra Sauer-Csáky von Nordendorf.

Otto Brill, a chemist with a doctorate, was the second oldest of four children of the Jewish leather merchant Mori(t)z Brill and his wife Amalie, née Thein.

At the beginning of April 1941, the provisional rector of the Academy, Alexander Popp, informed Nazi Reichsstatthalter (Reich Governor) Baldur von Schirach of the founding of the association Freundeskreis der Akademie der bildenden Künste (Friends of the Academy of Fine Arts), w

Rudolf Hintermayer, who later became a lawyer and art collector, was born in Waidhofen an der Ybbs in 1917 as the youngest son of Rudolf Hintermayer, who worked in the Vienna municipal administration and later became Deputy Director of Städtische Gaswerke, and his wife Auguste,

Anton Kraus, son of a merchant, was employed as a trainee in an accounting department of the Imperial and Royal Ministry of Finance between 1912 and 1914 after graduating from a secondary school in St. Pölten.

Hedwig Lemberger, the youngest daughter of Carl and Karoline Lemberger, was born in Vienna on 13 April 1873.

Wilhelmine was born in Vienna as the third of four children of Moriz and Amalia Brill. After studying medicine at the University of Vienna, where she graduated in 1914, Wilhelmine worked as a pediatrician.

Edith, the younger of the two daughters of the lawyer and art collector

Helene Richter came from a liberal, (upper) middle-class family with a Jewish background. Her father, the physician Maximilian Richter, was head of the medical service of the imperial and royal privileged Southern Railway Company, and her mother Emilie was a housewife.

Like her brother Otto, Clotilde, the eldest daughter of the drive belt manufacturer Moriz Brill and his wife Amalie, was born in Pardubice, Bohemia.

Alfred Spitzer studied law at the University of Vienna from 1879, graduating in 1889.

Hanna, the eldest daughter of the Viennese lawyer and art collector

The only daughter of Baron Salomon James de Rothschild and Adèle Hanna Charlotte from the German branch of the Rothschild family, Hélène Betty Louise Caroline was born in Paris on 21 August 1863.