Sándor Wolf

Alexander "Sándor" Wolf (born Eisenstadt 21 December 1871: died Haifa 2 January 1946) was an Austrian wine trader and collector of antiquities.

From this came his initiative to found, in 1926, the Regional Museum ("Landesmuseum") in the "Leinnerhaus", a large originally baroque town house in Eisenstadt which had been used as a music school (among other things) during the nineteenth century and which was acquired by the Wolf family in 1918.

Early in 1938 Austria was merged with Germany as part of Hitler's strategy for again redrawing the map of central Europe.

Sándor Wolf, who was Jewish, found himself arrested by the Gestapo and forced "voluntarily" to surrender his assets and his collection.

Together with his sister, Frieda Löwy, he was forced to abandon his homeland, fleeing by way of Fiume and Triest to Palestine, where they acquired an estate in Haifa.