Braunau am Inn concentrate on accounting for the past; the town's administration awards the Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer Award, named after native diplomat Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer, to honour committed Austrians abroad. Several ' were installed in Braunau by the artist Gunter Demnig. Adolf Hitler was born on 20 April 1889 in Braunau am Inn where his father Alois Hitler served as a customs official. He and his family left Braunau and moved to Passau in 1892. Hitler was born in an apartment building recorded at Salzburger Vorstadt 15 in an 1890 register, which housed a craft brewery and several rental flats, one of them occupied by
Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer supervisor, and diplomat for the UNO. His book "A Great Experiment in International Administration" had a substantial influence on the developing of the UN. Ranshofen-Wertheimer and Kohr also lobbied for an independent Austria. That the young second republic of Austria became a member of the UN rather fast can be attributed to the engagement of Ranshofen-Wertheimer. Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer is buried in the cemetery of the castle Ranshofen in his family grave. Braunau Contemporary History Days 16 September 2007, with the title “Peacemakers manual”, focused on the life of Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer. The Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer Award (ERWA) was founded by the Society