Ernst Papanek

[2] After World War I, Papanek and his high school classmates formed an organization called Playmates to support child refugees from the conflict.

[2] Papanek earned his high school diploma in 1919, the same year he joined the Social Democratic Workers' Party.

During the same period, he served as the Municipal Council Committee for Personnel Matters and Administrative Reform, where he oversaw the city's schools and childcare facilities.

In Brünn (present-day Brno), Papanek and other like-minded exiles formed the Foreign Office of the Austrian Social Democrats.

[2] In 1938, Papanek became leading director of the refugee children's homes established by the Organisation pour la Santé et l'Education (OSE) in France.

[2] In the late 1930s, the family lived in France as Ernst and Helene worked together to house refugee Jewish children through their leadership in OSE.

[4] A public housing complex in Vienna designed by Peter and Maria Tölzer is named for Papanek.

Completed in 1976, the Enrst-Papanek-Hof complex features art by sculptor Alfred Kirchner and a plaque to Papanek near the entrance.