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,
Gerhard Skiba Demnig, an artist from Cologne to lay four Stolpersteine for victims of the National Socialism in Braunau am Inn. Gerhard Skiba was awarded the Elfriede Grünberg Prize in 2007 to honor his merits to struggle National Socialism. The award is named after Holocaust-Victim Elfriede Grünberg. In 2006 also Leopold Engleitner (104), the oldest survivor of the concentration camps Buchenwald, Niederhagen and Ravensbrück, received the Elfriede Grünberg Prize. In 2007 Gerhard Skiba presented the Trapp Family with the Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer Award, which was founded in order to honor Austrians who stood up for and represented Austria in an extraordinary way abroad.