Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer as a diplomat and supervisor of the League of Nations for 10 years in Geneva, beginning in 1930. Because of the incidents in Europe, he emigrated to America, where he worked at the American University in Washington as a professor. In addition, he was employed as a consultant of the United States State Department and supported the US government in the struggle against Hitler. There, he and his younger colleague Leopold Kohr began to criticize the National Socialist Germany through media such as "The New York Times". Shortly after the Second World War, Egon Ranshofen began to work as executive,
Serbs in Austria real number of ethnic Serbs in Austria is estimated to be much higher – e.g. the membership of "Serbische Gemeinschaft in Österreich" ("Savez Srba u Austriji"), an ethnic Serb association in Austria, exceeds 250,000 people. The common estimation is a total of 300,000. The Österreichisch Serbische Gesellschaft (Austrian Serbian Society) was founded in 1936 as "Österreichisch-Jugoslawischen Gesellschaft". Serbs were a notable minority of the Habsburg Monarchy, having settled Central Europe following the Ottoman conquest of Serbia. The Serbs with the aid of Austrian troops occupied Serbia in 1686–91, established the Kingdom of Serbia (1718–39), and occupied it again in 1788–92.