Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer

Egon Ferdinand Ranshofen-Wertheimer was born as the son of the Catholic land owner and member of the Upper Austrian parliament Julius Wertheimer in Ranshofen [de] near Braunau am Inn, Austria.

In this period, he wrote his first book, Portrait of the British Labour Party, which became a bestseller and he made first contact with Leopold Kohr, a young journalist and economist from Salzburg, later author of The Breakdown of Nations.

Because of the deteriorating situation in Europe, he emigrated to the United States, where he worked at American University in Washington, D.C., as a professor.

Braunau Contemporary History Days 16 September 2007, with the title “Peacemakers manual”, focused on the life of Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer.

The Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer Award (ERWA) was founded by the Society for Contemporary History in Braunau am Inn in the beginning of 2007.