He was active with the Vienna Konzerthausges to whose board of directors he was appointed in 1914, serving as financial advisor from 1915, and as vice-president from 1919.
[6] There, he was a member of the supervisory board of the "Bank of Jewish Self-Government," one of those institutions with which the Nazis attempted to feign normality to the outside world.
He survived the concentration camp and returned to Vienna at the beginning of July 1945, where he served as vice president and financial advisor of the Wr.
[2] His brother Sigmund Stransky (born in Brno on 28 September 1864; died in Vienna on 21 November 1938);[7] was a chemist and a pianist.
He was regarded as an outstanding expert in the construction and operation of petroleum refineries, and was also involved in atomic physics and the toxic alkaloid mixture veratrin, which is used as an insecticide.
His villa in Bad Vöslau, built by Otto Wagner, was a meeting place for numerous artists.
[2][9][10][11] In 2006, the painting "Porträt Stephanie Gräfin Wurmbrand-Stuppach" by Hans Canon, which had been looted by Nazis and recovered by the Monuments Men, was restituted to the Stransky family.
[16][17] Stranky's family has listed artworks by Friedrich Gauermann,[18] Josef Danhauser[19] and Anton Einsle[20][21] on the German Lost Art Foundation.