Dr. med. Heinrich Dagobert Ranzenhofer-Galarza

Heinrich Dagobert RANZENHOFER: b. 3 Feb 1896, Wien - d. 1944, London?

Basic birth data from IKG-Wien archives courtesy of www.genteam.at

111487 1896 682 1 Wien Ranzenhofer Heinrich Dagobert Emil/

Further details from actual IKG-Wien Birth Registration to be found under:

1896.02.03 - Heinrich Dagobert RANZENHOFER - IKG-Wien BR

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-25801-12374-67?cc=202...

Parents: Emil RANZENHOFER, “akad. Maler”, Wien, & Anna Laura, née CHASSL – married 15 Nov 1893, Wien

Witnesses: ? PLATSCHEK & Gustav (?) KELSTEIN

Bears note: “ist am 6.?.1922” aus den Judentum ausgetreten”

Listed under "Mediziner aus Wien" as per www.genteam.at Lfdnr 54387/54388/20413 Familienname Ranzenhofer Vorname Heinrich Geburtsdatum 1896.02.03 Geburtsort Wien Beruf Medizinstudent Religion jüdisch Quelle 134-0707 Nationalien Datum 1914/15 Rigorosen Datum 1926.07.15 Promotions/Sponsions Datum Medizin Chirurgie Chemie Pharmazie Universalmedizin (ab 1873) Ergänzung

cf. various other interesting sources:

DÖW - Erinnern - Biographien - Spanienarchiv online - Spanienfreiwillige: R - Ranzenhofer, Heinrich, Dr.

http://www.doew.at/erinnern/biographien/spanienarchiv-online/spanie...

geb. 3. 2. 1896 in Wien

Maschinentechniker. Ledig.

Wien. Ende 1936 aus Österreich nach Spanien. 1937 in Valencia inhaftiert. 1939 Perpignan. Ende August oder Anfang September 1939 Emigration nach Großbritannien.

as well as ...

Vertriebene Vernunft - Friedrich Stadler - Google Books

https://books.google.de/books?id=wZeBUCRRmWcC&pg=PA808&lpg=PA808&dq...

- reference to a "Dr. Henrico RANZENHOFER".

but also ...

The Pittsburgh Courier from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania • Page 5

http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/39686662/

" ... As an expression of his sympathy for Jews and others driven away from their homes by Hitler and Mussolini, the Emperor, Haile Selassie, has recently appointed a number of Jewish doctors now in Palestine to the Abyssinian medical service, which is now being re-organised with the aid of British experts in tropicai medicine ... interviewing ... medical experts shortly before his departure from London for Addis Ababa. He is Dr. Ranzenhofer Galarza, an Austrian who fled from Vienna to escape from the Nazis when they entered that city, promises aid: "As a victim of fascism. I am glad of the opportunity to render some aid to the Abyssinians. the first victims of Italian fascism," declared Dr. Galarza. "I am going out to. Abyssinia to heip the Emperor organize health centers in different parts of the country. From what I understand conditions in Abyssinia are in a very bad state. There is a great scarcity of nearly everything, especially in the line of drugs. Before the Italians evacuated the country they destroyed whatever stocks of medicines existed in Abyssinia and with the closing of the Mediterranean it has been difficult to send urgent supplies of drugs until now." "

in addition to:

Elsie Susanna Preston Walmsley, Simon, Harrop, Galarza, Fisher (1897 - 1993) - Find A Grave Memorial

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=89231055

" ...Married Heinrich Dagobert Ranzenhofer Galarza in London in 1943, widowed in 1944."

N.B. it is not yet clear how, when, where, why he picked up the additional Name of GALARZA ...