Ah, ok Geni is yours.
The german Wikpedia about him think was not in the past on the internet. Looks to be more new. I looked at old postings but did not find it there and also did not remember that we have had it before in the postings.
Of sure is, that many Jews in Vienna and also at other places converted to be not discriminated or when they had a curios german name, which they did not like to have longer and some more. Would really assume they also did anywhere around 1900.
Example John Kerry - his family came from Bohemia, was named before Kohn then have taken Kerry. It was said they have threw a pencil on a map and where it fell the future name should be for them. The pencil ended up at place Kerry in Ireland.
No idea if that is a true story or a tall story. See link below what´s written to Kerry and the picture for "Baptismal record of Fritz Kohn in Mödling, parish St. Othmar" and an older for Bohemia.
http://www.johnkerry.atDid we have this Links with info to the theme in the past for Vienna? They are in german.
Jewish converts in Vienna 1782 - 1914: A project at the Austrian. Akad. Of Sciences
http://www.hagalil.com/archiv/2005/01/konvertiten.htmThe pdf file: Jewish converts in Vienna 1782-1914
http://www.austriaca.at/0xc1aa500d_0x0014a7d9.pdf"Due to the baptism he asks for change of his pronounced first and last name ...":
To the name change of Judeo-Protestant converts in Vienna, 1782 - 1914
http://www.judentum.net/geschichte/namenswechsel.htmYes, this 1937 book is very interesting and the statement "antique furniture, chandeliers, antiques, porcelain, glass, pottery, sculptures, silver, carpets, ornaments, textiles, paintings, engravings, books, etc .; because split stay between London and Vienna; voluntary auction there even 28, and October 29, 1937."
Can be that it can be seen online? or to get anywhere to buy? See here some for University Heidelberg, Germany and some other places.
https://www.google.at/#q=Kunstsammlung+und+Wohnungseinrichtung+aus+dem+Besitze+des+Herrn+Professor+Ladislaus+Czettel%2C+in+Wien%2C+I.%2C+Bäckerstraße+18%2C+IV.+Stock+(Lift)%2C+Tel.+R-25-1-27:+
http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2008-107299/-> Some similar also - looks that many did:
http://www.zvdd.de/de/dms/search/?tx_goobit3_search%5Borderfield%5D=yearpublish&tx_goobit3_search%5Border%5D=0&tx_goobit3_search%5Blink%5D=794&tx_goobit3_search%5Bextquery%5D=dc%3Adruckschriften.ub.uni.heidelberg.de&tx_goobit3_search%5Bdefault%5D=metadatahttp://katalogbeta.slub-dresden.de/?tx_find_find%5Bq%5D%5Bauthor%5D=Auktionshaus%20Albert%20Kende&tx_find_find%5Bfacet%5D=Czettel again:
http://www.zvdd.de/de/dms/search/?tx_goobit3_search%5Borderfield%5D=yearpublish&tx_goobit3_search%5Border%5D=0&tx_goobit3_search%5Blink%5D=0&tx_goobit3_search%5Bdefault%5D=metadata&tx_goobit3_search%5B0%5D=0http://www.zvdd.de/de/dms/load/met/?PPN=urn%3Anbn%3Ade%3Absz%3A16-diglit-112148I remeber my Viennesse grandma told me before very long time when was a young girl that she buyed her living room furniture for a very good price from a Jew before WW2, because he left Austria. And she hurried to get it when she heard about. The furniture was very antique thing from cherry wood and had flat brass figures (some angels) and Decorations. Normally she would not have had such furniture, but on the fact that many Jews left and looked for people who buy, it was not so expensive to get. I wonder who it was and if the person made it to a safe place with his family. I know that there was then a time they could not longer go anywhere and we know what happened then.