Sir Heinrich / Henry Strakosch

Marie-Therese Arnbom's history of Sir Henry's line of the Strakosch family starts with his grandfather, Salomon Strakosch (1795-1867), and ends with the rise of the National Socialists in the 1930s. "The Strakosch family members in Austria, long assimilated and religiously converted, did not initially see any threat to their position but were forced to leave the country after the National Socialist Anschluß of 1938. Sir Henry helped some of them move to England."

The emphasis of the Arnbom book {Marie-Theres Arnbom, Friedmann, Gutmann, Lieben, Mandl und Strakosch, Fünf Familienporträts aus Wien vor 1938, Böhlau Verlag, Vienna, 2002} is on the business and professional achievements of the five families treated and not on social history...Sir Henry was born Heinrich [on May 9] 1871, son of Eduard Strakosch and Mathilde Winterberg [Arnbom p. 118].

The birth record is visible in newly released Czech Jewish Registries at http://www.Badatelna.cz/fond/1073, search Brno births, image #161 of 203 (born Hohenau, at the Zuckerfabrik; witness was Simon Strakosch).

FreeBMD, in Marriages Jul-Aug-Sep 1941, has:

• STRAKOSCH Henry married Temperley Surrey Mid.E. 2a 681
• Temperley Mabel E V married Strakosch Surrey Mid.E. 2a 681 (Mabel Elizabeth Vincent Temperley)

Death of Dame Mabel Elizabeth Vincent Strakosch appears in England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966 Tax, Criminal, Land & Wills, ancestry.co.uk. * Death: 1951 Surrey, England

Account of Henry Strakosch's life (up to 1905) from "The Anglo-African who's who and biographical sketch-book", ed. Walter H. Wills and R.J. Barrett, 1905: "STRAKOSCH, Henry, of 9, Iving St., St. James', was born at Hohenau, Austria, May 10, 1871. He is the son of Ed. Strakosch, of Hohenau, a pioneer of the Austrian beet sugar industry. After a Continental banking experience he went to S.A. as Manager of the African Mining and Financial Assoc. He joined the firm of A. Goerz & Co. in Aug. 1896, and afterwards (Apr. 1902) became Managing Director of A. Goerz & Co., Ltd. He is also a director of many other important S.A. Cos., mainly gold mining. During the war he was a member of the Committee appointed by the Governor to advise him on matters affecting the Uitlander population of the Transvaal. He was also a member of the Central Registration Committee. Mr. Strakosch is keen on polo, an inveterate motorist, and a bachelor."

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