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
AMAG Austria Metall AG non-ferrous metal business of Arthur Krupp AG to form "Vereinigten Metallwerke Ranshofen-Berndorf AG" (VMW). To expand the product portfolio with cast aluminium wheels, a 100% subsidiary was founded in 1983, "Alu-Guß GmbH". It was later sold to the Borbet group. Similarly, the Berndorf business was spun off and sold in 1988. The name of the company was changed to "Austria Metall AG" (AMAG). AMAG was privatised in 1996, in the form of a Management-Buyout by Klaus Hammerer (40%) and an employee trust (20%), the remaining stock (40%) being acquired by Constantia. In 2007, Hammerer sold its stake to Constantia Packaging