Category: Paternal Ancestors
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Hauptschule der Stadt Wien für Knaben–Schwarzingergaße 4
Today I discovered, among a trove of old documents that I scanned last week, my father’s public school certificate. He attended the Hauptschule der Stadt Wien für Knaben (Secondary School in the City of Vienna for Boys) at Schwarzingergaße 4, about an 8 minute walk from his house. The certificate states that he successfully completed…
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Opa’s World War I Journal — Part 1
My grandfather, Paul Joseph Mühlrad, was 17 years old when Kaiser Franz Joseph declared war on Serbia on July 28, 1914, exactly one month following the assassination of Franz Joseph’s nephew, and heir presumptive, Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. Like all young men in the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, Paul entered the military in service to his…
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Paul and Aranyka Mühlrad
My paternal grandparents, Oma and Opa, were Paul Joseph Mühlrad (1897–1959) and Aranyka Mogány (1900–1991). Opa died several years before I was born—I was named in his memory—but he had such a presence in my family when I was growing up that I still knew him as Opa. Oma was the only living grandparent I…
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The Bauers of Brno
Dad used to tell me that he periodically went up to Brno (Brünn) to visit his aunt and uncle. I never knew which aunt and uncle he was talking about, and I guess I wasn’t interested enough at the time to ask. Honestly, I think half the time he told me this story just because…