Tizzy von Trapp gets the Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer Award

Trapp Family Austrian Relief, Inc. is an initiative founded by

Georg von Trapp Georg Ludwig Ritter von Trapp (4 April 1880 – 30 May 1947) was an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Navy who became the patriarch of the Trapp Family, Trapp Family Singers. Trapp was the most successful Austro-Hungarian submarine commander of ...

and

Maria von Trapp Maria Augusta von Trapp Order of the Holy Sepulchre (Catholic), DHS (; 26 January 1905 – 28 March 1987), often styled as "Baroness", was the stepmother and matriarch of the Trapp Family, Trapp Family Singers. She wrote ''The Story of the ...

of the famous Austrian singing family, the

Trapp Family The Trapp Family (also known as the von Trapp Family) was a singing group formed from the family of former Austrian naval commander Georg von Trapp. The family achieved fame in their original singing career in their native Austria during the in ...

, and was an integral part of the effort to promote the

Austria victim theory The victim theory (), encapsulated in the slogan "Austria – the Nazis' first victim" (''Österreich – das erste Opfer der Nazis''), was the 1949–1988 Austrian ideological basis formed by Austrians themselves under Allied occupation and th ...

History

In January 1947, Major General Harry J. Collins turned to

and

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, pleading for help for the Austrian people, having seen the residents of

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suffer when he had arrived there with the famed 42nd

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after

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. After founding the initiative, Georg and

took on the posts of president and vice-president, while Monsignore Dr. Franz Wasner was appointed treasurer.

Awards

*In 1949

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awarded Maria Augusta von Trapp the Benemerenti medal as a recognition for the Trapp Family Austrian Relief Inc. *On September 29, 2007, Tizzy von Trapp Walker, daughter of Rupert von Trapp, was honoured on behalf of the Trapp Family with the Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer Award in

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within the scope of the 16th

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, for their work performed and their espousing Austria.

is the birthplace of

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References

{{The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, state=collapsed Aftermath of World War II in Austria Trapp family Humanitarian aid organizations of World War II