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Cases
16
Years
1246 to 2006
Region
Europe
Main subjects
Music and sport, Literature and art, Jewish law and estates, European families
Families
House of Habsburg
Updated
30 October 2026
Gustav Klimt: Klimt1918 · Vienna, AustriaAfter Gustav Klimt died in 1918, the mothers of his children claimed support from his estate and were paid 4,000 to 10,000 crowns eachGustav Klimt died in Vienna in February 1918 after a stroke. He never married. He paid monthly allowances to the mothers of several children. Documented are six children by three women, two of whom died young.klimt-database.com and 4 moreAnton Webern: Anton Webern in Stettin, October 19121945 · Mittersill, AustriaAnton Webern was shot dead by a US Army cook in Mittersill on 15 September 1945, and the record shows no trialAnton Webern, 61, had left Vienna for Mittersill, where his daughter and son-in-law, Benno Mattel, lived. On the evening of 15 September 1945, US soldiers posing as black-market buyers arrested Mattel for illegal dealing.theamericanscholar.org and 2 moreAlban Berg: Alban Berg (1885–1935) ~1930 © Max Fenichel (1885–1942)1935 · ViennaAlban Berg's widow kept the third act of Lulu unfinished for 41 years, and a composer finished it in secret for the publisherAlban Berg died on 24 December 1935 with the opera Lulu orchestrated through two acts. Act 3 existed in short score. Universal Edition, his publisher, asked Schoenberg, Webern and Zemlinsky to finish it, and all declined.nybooks.com and 2 moreAdele Bloch-Bauer: Adele Bloch-Bauer vers 19201925 · ViennaAdele Bloch-Bauer's will asked for her Klimt portraits to go to Austria; the Nazis took them, and her niece won them back in 2006Gustav Klimt painted Adele Bloch-Bauer in 1907 and 1912. Her husband, the sugar industrialist Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, owned the paintings. Adele's will asked Ferdinand to leave the Klimts to the Austrian state gallery at his death.plone.unige.ch and 4 moreAI illustration: An empty, broken-open mausoleum by the Wörthersee in Carinthia, 20082006 · Auen, Wörthersee, Carinthia, AustriaThieves stole the coffin of Friedrich Karl Flick, heir to a Nazi-era fortune, from his Austrian mausoleumFriedrich Flick's companies used an estimated 48,000 forced labourers in the Second World War.sueddeutsche.de and 6 moreJohann Strauss I: StraußVaterLitho1899 · Vienna, Austria-HungaryJohann Strauss II gave up Austrian citizenship and his church to remarry, then left his fortune to a music society instead of his familyJohann Strauss II wanted to leave his second wife, Angelika Dittrich, and marry Adele Strauss. Catholic Austria did not allow a divorced person to remarry while the spouse was alive.projekt-gutenberg.org and 3 moreAntonio Vivaldi: Vivaldi1741 · ViennaAntonio Vivaldi was buried in Vienna for 19 florins 45 kreuzer, and his manuscripts were sold off, then found at a school in 1926Antonio Vivaldi died in Vienna in July 1741 in poor circumstances, in a house owned by a saddlemaker's widow. The funeral at St.finestresullarte.info and 2 moreGustav Mahler: Photo of Gustav Mahler by Moritz Nähr 011911 · ViennaAlma Mahler held Mahler's unfinished Tenth Symphony for decades and first demanded a veto over Deryck Cooke's completionGustav Mahler died in May 1911 with the Tenth Symphony in draft. No one tried to complete it at once. A mistaken report led Richard Specht to suggest Mahler wanted the manuscript burned.mahlerfoundation.org and 2 morePalais Ephrussi (30703) stitch IMG 0449 - IMG 0462: Palais Ephrussi1945 · Vienna, AustriaThe Gestapo took the Ephrussi palace in Vienna in 1938; the family says a maid hid the netsuke in her mattress, and the Jewish Museum says it cannot be provedThe Paris collector Charles Ephrussi (1849 to 1905) bought Japanese netsuke, small carved toggles, in the 1870s.jmw.at and 2 moreLudwig van Beethoven: Beethoven with the manuscript of the Missa solemnis1827 · Vienna, AustriaBeethoven took his nephew from the boy's mother in court; the nephew shot himself, then inherited everythingBeethoven's brother Kaspar Karl died in 1815, leaving a nine-year-old son, Karl. Beethoven called the boy's mother, Johanna, unfit and fought her in the Vienna courts for sole guardianship. He won, and Johanna lost all custody.Internet Archive and 2 moreJoseph Haydn: Portrait of Joseph Haydn1809 · Vienna, AustriaPhrenologists stole Haydn's head after burial, and it was reunited with his body 145 years laterJoseph Haydn died in Vienna while French troops occupied the city. He was buried in the Hundsturm cemetery.classical-music.com and 2 moreRudolf, Crown Prince of Austria: Rudolf Crown Prince of Austria LOC1889 · Mayerling hunting lodge, Lower AustriaAustria's crown prince shot his 17-year-old lover and himself at Mayerling, and the throne passed to the man killed at SarajevoCrown Prince Rudolf, 30, only son of Emperor Franz Joseph, was found dead at his hunting lodge beside Baroness Mary Vetsera, 17. Rudolf had shot her and then himself. The court first announced heart failure.Wikipedia (English) and 1 moreWolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Mozart familylabel QS:Lfr,"portrait de la famille Mozart"label QS:Len,"Mozart family"1791 · Vienna, AustriaMozart's widow passed off a Requiem finished by his student as his own and sold it twiceWolfgang Amadeus Mozart died at 35 with debts and was buried in a common grave at St. Marx, as the burial rules of the time required for most citizens; his body was never identified. He left an unfinished Requiem.dme.mozarteum.at and 2 moreSamuel Oppenheimer1703 · ViennaThe Habsburg state owed Samuel Oppenheimer millions when he died in 1703; it declared his firm bankrupt and his estate was auctioned in 1763Samuel Oppenheimer was born in 1630, probably in the Palatinate. He moved to Vienna in 1674 and became imperial war commissary in 1679, supplying the armies that fought the Ottomans and France. In 1701 he became chief war factor.deutsche-biographie.de and 4 moreImperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire front: Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire in "Schatzkammer" Vienna1423 · Nuremberg, Germany; Vienna, AustriaAn emperor gave Nuremberg the crown jewels "for permanent custody" in 1423; Vienna took them in 1800, Hitler took them back, and an American found them walled in a bunkerThe regalia of the Holy Roman Empire include the imperial crown, orb, sceptre, swords and a lance that tradition identifies as the Holy Lance.text-message.blogs.archives.gov and 3 moreMargarete von Babenberg: Margarete von Babenberg, auch Margareta von Österreich, tschechisch Markéta Babenberská, (* 1204 oder 1205; † 29. Oktober 1266 auf der Burg Krumau am Kamp)1246 · Vienna and Hainburg an der Donau, AustriaThe last Babenberg duke died without sons in 1246, his widowed sister of about 47 married a 19-year-old Ottokar and handed him her title deeds, and he divorced herDuke Frederick II of Austria, the last Babenberg duke, was killed in battle at the Leitha on 15 June 1246 and left no heir. His sister Margarete, born about 1204, was the widow of Henry (VII), King of the Romans.deutsche-biographie.de and 3 more