AUSTRIA
(Note centered heading below: Jehovah’s Witnesses)
Austro-Hungarian Empire: w86 6/15 26-27
Catholic Church: yb89 67-68
concordat: yb89 67-68
membership: yb89 67
support of Nazism: re 237
children:
illegitimate: g88 11/8 30
description: yb89 67-68, 72; w86 6/15 26
forest damage from pollution: g87 6/22 3
government: w86 6/15 26-27
Chancellor Dollfuss (1932-1934): yb89 91, 93
Constitution (1934): yb89 93
politicians ranked low: g90 8/8 3-4
relations with Catholic Church: yb89 67-68, 91
history: yb89 67
maps: yb10 21; yb09 21; g 1/08 8; yb89 72-73; w86 6/15 26
Nazism: re 237; w05 5/1 24; g95 1/8 11-12; yb89 94, 98-99; w86 6/15 27
Holocaust: g89 4/8 5
Peutinger Table (map of Roman Empire): g04 11/22 13-15
population:
demography: yb89 67
President Kurt Waldheim:
open letter of American Jewish Congress regarding papal audience for: g87 11/22 14
religion: yb89 67-68
Easter customs: g86 3/22 4-5
visit of Pope John Paul II: g88 11/8 30
“Year of the Bible” (2003): g03 9/22 31
Salzburg Marionette Theatre: g 1/08 8-10
Similaun Man: g95 5/8 3-9
Vienna:
Ferris wheel: g01 11/8 19-21
world’s heaviest man: g86 9/8 31
Jehovah’s Witnesses
ban (1935-1945): yb89 96-97, 99-100, 108-111, 134
Branch Committee: w14 7/15 21-22; yb89 139
branch office: jv 373
oversees Bosnia and Herzegovina ( -1996): yb09 215
oversees Croatia ( -1996): yb09 215
oversees Macedonia (1993- ): yb09 219
oversees Romania (1973-1995): yb06 81, 146
oversees Slovenia (1991): yb09 245
Vienna (1923): yb89 80, 85; w88 3/15 22; w86 6/15 27
Vienna (1946): yb89 134
Vienna (1947): yb89 134-135
Vienna (1957): yb89 139, 141; w88 3/15 22
Vienna (1987): yb89 72, 140, 142; w88 3/15 22-23
branch office having oversight:
Germany (2011- ): yb13 13
branch overseers: yb89 76, 80, 87, 99-100, 103, 134, 139-140
clergy opposition: jv 441-442, 543; yb89 86-87, 92, 95-96
congregations: jv 373
conventions: w90 1/15 29; yb89 15, 80-81, 135; yb87 18
attended elsewhere: yb89 97-98
hosting foreigners: yb96 110; yb94 101, 241-242; yb89 144-147; w86 6/15 28
court cases: yb89 105-106, 119-121
Nazi judge risks life to spare Witness: yb89 127-128
victory on child custody: yb97 15; g96 3/8 21; g93 10/8 15
early witnessing: jv 373, 430; yb89 68-77; w86 6/15 26-27
Gilead attendees: w18.03 21-22; w14 7/15 20
girl gets legal permission to leave Catholic Church: yb92 52-53
growth: jv 373; yb89 84-85, 91, 134, 147; w88 3/15 22; w86 6/15 27-28
immigrant field: w14 2/15 2; g03 2/8 20; yb89 143-144; w86 6/15 28
Kingdom Halls: jv 373
legal recognition (1930): jv 696
association Wachtturm-Gesellschaft: yb89 90, 93-94, 135
legal recognition as a religion (2009): yb10 16
legal recognition as religion upheld by European Court of Human Rights (2005, 2008, 2009): yb10 16; yb09 26; yb06 14
legal rights fought for: yb89 89-92
meetings: yb89 76-80, 85, 90-91, 96-97, 107-108, 134
Memorial: yb89 85, 112-113, 133
“Millions” lectures: jv 426; yb89 75-76
Ministerial Training School: yb90 22, 24
missionaries: w14 7/15 18-19; jv 543
modern history: yb89 66-147; w88 3/15 22; w86 6/15 26-28
Nazi era: jv 586; w90 2/1 22; yb89 100-134; w86 6/15 27
apology by former governor: w05 5/1 25
children separated from parents by Nazis: yb89 123-125
compromise with Nazis by some: yb89 130-131
faithful unto death: kr 150; w90 2/1 22; w90 11/1 23, 28; yb89 119-123, 133-134
Gestapo documents: yb89 99, 105, 108-112
letters from Witnesses about to be executed: kr 150; jv 662; w90 11/1 28; w89 1/1 32
literature: brfi 11, 21, 31; jv 454; yb89 101-110, 129-130
narrow escapes from Gestapo: yb89 125-127, 129
resolution by those released from concentration camp: w86 6/15 27-28
statistics on Nazi victims: yb89 133-134
neutrality: yb89 100-101, 114-123
opposition: yb89 68-70, 78-80, 88-94
persecution: w90 2/1 22; yb89 92-134; w86 6/15 27
children taken from parents: g 8/11 18-19
literature censored and confiscated: yb89 92
persons:
Altenbuchner, Sister: yb89 100-101
Bojanowski, Ernst: yb89 104, 107, 110-111
Buchner, Josef: yb89 113, 131-132
Cyranek, Ludwig: jv 454; yb89 106-107, 110-111
Defner, Felix: yb89 134
Desch, Franz: bt 55
Ehm, Johannes: yb89 71-72
Ehm, Joseph: w86 6/15 27
Engleitner, Leopold: brfi 18; w17.03 10; w05 5/1 23-28; yb89 94-96, 98, 112-113
Friend, Maxwell G.: yb89 70; w86 6/15 26-27
Ganster, Franz: yb89 72-74, 76-77, 125, 129, 134; w86 6/15 27
Gölles, Peter: jv 450, 454; yb89 103-104, 106, 125-129, 134
Heide, Richard: jv 426
Heide family: yb89 76-77, 83-84, 123
Hirschmann, Auguste (Bender): yb89 111, 124
Hron, Hansi (Buchner): yb89 106-110
König, Leopold: yb89 73-75
Kraft(zig), August: brfi 15; jv 450, 454; yb89 99-102, 131-132
Letonja, Anton: g03 2/8 16-20; yb89 143-144
Letonja, Willi: brfi 20; g03 2/8 17-18
Liska, Erich and Hermine: g 8/11 18-20
Löhr, Elfriede: w14 7/15 18-19; jv 543
Lösch, Gerrit and Merete: w14 7/15 17-22; w94 11/1 29
Malina, Franz: yb89 135-137
Mattischek, Hubert: yb89 115-118
Močnik, Bolfenk and Marika: w08 7/1 29
Moser, Alois: brfi 27; jv 451; yb89 113, 115, 131-132; w86 6/15 27-28
Nöhrer, Erika: w18.03 19-21
Obweger, Hermine: yb89 123-125
Pichler, Johann: yb89 119-121
Pitteroff, Leopold: yb89 91, 134
Platajs, Vinzenz (Vinko): brfi 21; g03 2/8 16-19
Rainer, Johann: yb89 114-115
Reiter, Franz: jv 662
Riedler, Simon: yb89 74-75, 85; w86 6/15 27
Rundel, Jürgen and Gertrude: foa article 7; w14 7/15 21
Schindler, Johannes: yb89 80-84
Schön (Schoen), Joseph: g93 11/8 17-19; yb89 107
Schreiber, Therese: brfi 11; jv 450, 454; yb89 101-102, 104-106, 108, 135
Stadtegger, Sister: yb89 102
Steinacher, Gerhard: kr 150
Turner, Lowell and Margot: yb89 139-140
Unterdörfer, Ilse: w14 7/15 18-19; jv 543
Viereckl, Johann: yb89 100, 125-127
Wandres, Albert: brfi 15
Wegscheider, Josef: yb89 119-121
Wertholz, Heinz and Marianne: w25.08 26-27
Wohlfahrt, Franz: g94 10/22 8-15; jv 451; g93 11/8 17-18; yb89 115, 118-119
Wohlfahrt family: brfi 22
Wurm, Ludwig: g95 1/8 11-15
“Photo-Drama of Creation”: yb89 90
pioneers: yb89 80-84, 139; yb87 46
special pioneers: w14 7/15 20-21; yb89 137-139
places:
Dornbirn: yb89 71-72, 85
Feldbach: w18.03 21
Gastein valley: jv 543
Gusen concentration camp: yb89 117, 132-133
Klagenfurt: yb89 72-73, 76-77, 84-85, 129, 134-135, 144
Linz: yb89 73-75, 84-85
Mauthausen concentration camp: brfi 15, 27; yb89 116-118, 131-132; w86 6/15 27
Mistelbach: w18.03 20-21
Vienna: w14 2/15 2; yb89 68-70, 75, 77-80, 85, 90, 101, 129-130, 134-135, 139-140, 143-144; w86 6/15 28
printing: jv 586
publications:
public relations brochure: yb96 18-19
relief work: w93 2/1 22-24
Bosnia civil war (1993-1994): yb09 199, 202
floods (2002): g03 8/8 12-13
service experiences: yb94 51; w93 8/1 9; yb89 6, 138-139; yb88 55-56
aggressive personality overcome: w17.08 20
gambler troubled by death of childhood friend: w12 11/1 11-13
girl who desired friendship with God: w05 2/1 15
government offices: yb96 51-52
lady never at home: w14 4/15 31
lady with no time: yb99 56-57
truck rest stop: yb97 44
traveling overseers: w14 7/15 20-21
visits by—
Harbeck, M. C.: yb89 92
Jaracz, T.: yb89 146
Knorr, N. H.: yb89 92
Russell, C. T.: jv 406-407; yb89 68-70; w86 6/15 26
Rutherford, J. F.: yb89 77-80
Sydlik, D.: yb89 146-147