Bruno Franz Kaulbach
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Bruno Franz Kaulbach was an Austrian lawyer and a member of the Kohn family from Bennisch (now Horni Benesov) whose descendants include U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.
Life
Dr. Bruno Franz Kaulbach was born Bruno Franz Kohn on 29th December 1880, the first son of Bernard Kohn and Hermine Kolban. The Kohn family was part of a small Jewish community in the town of Bennisch (now Horni Benesov, Czech Republic) which was then part of Austria-Hungary. Bruno and his three brothers; Alfred, Richard and Oskar changed their surnames to 'Kaulbach' in the early 1900's. At about the same time they renounced the Jewish faith and converted to Roman Catholicism. Bruno completed his law studies at the University of Vienna in 1912. In the same year he married Maria Theresa Hinterholzer Meyer who came from from a prominent business and political family in Innsbruck and whose uncle was the painter and political activist Edgar Meyer. During the First World War Bruno served as a first lieutenant in the Austro-Hungarian Army. For a time Bruno and Maria lived in Graz where Bruno worked as a lawyer and where their children Martin and Eva were born. Bruno was also a regular contributor to magazines and newspapers. On ---- 1943 Bruno Kaulbach was arrested by the Gestapo in Innsbruck. He was transferred to Dachau Concentration Camp and held there as a political prisoner until the camp was liberated on -----. His three brothers, together with members of their families, were murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust. Only Richard Kaulbach's daughter Ilse escaped to the U.S.A. from Austria.