Leopold Popper-Podhragy

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Leopold Popper-Podhragy (born September 17, 1886 in Vienna ; † January 17, 1986 there ) was an Austrian private banker .

Life

Leopold was born in Vienna as the first son of the Jewish timber industrialist Alexander Baron Popper von Podhragy and his French wife and opera singer Blanche Marchesi and was probably named Leopold in memory of his grandfather Leopold Baron Popper von Podhragy.

In 1919 he married the opera diva Maria Jeritza .

In 1924 he and his wife Maria Jeritza bought the run-down Hatzlhof in Unternberg in St. Corona am Wechsel and had a Maierhof built and the Unternberg Castle built from 1924 to 1926.

Stained glass window of the Wolfgang Church (Kirchberg am Wechsel) with the mention of Leopold Freiherrn Popper von Podhragy. 1931, with coat of arms

With the annexation of Austria to Hitler's Germany, Leopold Popper-Podhragy was classified as a so - called half - Jew and arrested several times by the Gestapo . On July 15, 1939, he managed to escape to London via Paris . He was sentenced to death in absentia and most of his property was Aryanized .

In 1951 Leopold Popper-Podhragy returned to Austria from exile in England. Only a small part of his former fortune was returned to him. He married Maria Bachner from Neunkirchen a second time .

In 1983 the 96-year-old baron sold the Unterberg Castle and all of his property in St. Corona am Wechsel and only lived in Vienna.

He died on January 17, 1986 at the age of 100.

Awards

  • 1928 honorary citizen of St. Corona am Wechsel

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cornelia Rehberger: Baron Popper-Podhragy as a patron in St. Corona Bote from the Bucklige Welt, October 11, 2018
  2. ↑ The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . St. Corona am Wechsel, Unternberg Castle. Unterberg No. 49, p. 1912
personal data
SURNAME Popper-Podhragy, Leopold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leopold Freiherr Popper von Podhragy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian private banker
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 17th January 1986
Place of death Vienna