Monthly Archives: March 2016

On the 21st October 1916 Count Karl von Stürgkh was murdered by Friedrich Wolfgang Adler. Stürgkh, whose family originated from the Upper Palatinate, had been born on 30th October 1859. The family owned vast estates in the Halbenrain region of … Continue reading →

     On 23 January 1897 Margarete Lihotozky known as Grete, was born into a comfortable bourgeois family in Vienna. Her father Erwin Lihotozky, was a manager for the municipal expansion fund for the Vienna City Council. Grete was a very … Continue reading →