Margarethe Oppenheimer (Q108324646)
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Viennese Jewish art collector, wife of Dr. Franz Oppenheimer, refugee from Nazism (1878-1947)
- Margarethe Knapp
- Margarete Grete Knapp
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| English | Margarethe Oppenheimer |
Viennese Jewish art collector, wife of Dr. Franz Oppenheimer, refugee from Nazism (1878-1947) |
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Once the Nazis came to power Franz Oppenheimer was persecuted because of his Jewish origins. Consequently, in around December 1936, he and Margarethe fled from Berlin to the comparative safety of Vienna having paid punitive emigration taxes to the Nazi Government (so called Reichsfluchtsteuer). Franz and Margarethe’s exile in Vienna did not last long. German troops entered Austria on March 12, 1938, and Adolf Hitler proclaimed the Anschluss of Austria into Germany the following day. The Oppenheimers had been able to escape to Budapest the day before the Anschluss carrying only hand luggage. From Hungary they travelled via Sweden and Colombia before finally reaching their new home in New York three and a half years later - in December 1941. (English)