Leopold Popper-Podhragy

Leopold Popper-Podhragy (born September 17, 1886 in Vienna; † January 17, 1986 there) was an Austrian private banker and art collector who was looted by the Nazis. 
Life.
Leopold was born as the first son of the Jewish timber industrialist Alexander Freiherr Popper von Podhragy and his French wife and opera singer Blanche Marchesi in Vienna and was probably named Leopold in memory of his grandfather Leopold Freiherr Popper von Podhragy. 
In 1919 he married the opera diva Maria Jeritza. 
In 1924 he and his wife Maria Jeritza bought the run-down Hatzlhof in Unternberg in St. Corona am Wechsel and had a Maierhof built and the Unternberg Castle built from 1924 to 1926.
Nazi Persecution.
When Austria was annexed to Hitler's Germany, Leopold Popper-Podhragy was classified as a so-called half-Jew and arrested several times by the Gestapo. On July 15, 1939, he managed to escape to London via Paris. He was sentenced to death in absentia and most of his property was Aryanized, that is transfered to non-Jews. 
Postwar.
In 1951 Leopold Popper-Podhragy returned to Austria from exile in England. Only a small part of his former fortune was returned to him. He married Maria Bachner from Neunkirchen a second time. 
In 1983 the 96-year-old baron sold Unterberg Castle and all of his property in St. Corona am Wechsel and only lived in Vienna. 