Monday 18 July 2016
Vienna-Shanghai-Burnside: The Preiss Family Life Journey
Presented by Wolfgang Victor Preiss
Wolfgang Preiss was born in Shanghai in 1944 to Austrian parents Josef and Katharina who, twice in their lives, found themselves refugees. Firstly, Joe left Vienna in 1938 ahead of atrocities by the Nazis against Jewish people and started a new life in China, where he worked as an engineer. Käthe followed a year later, and they married. Secondly, in 1949 the incoming Chinese Communist Government required all Europeans to leave China and the family was eventually granted permission to migrate to Australia.
Having been too young to attend school in China, Wolfgang was educated at Burnside Primary School, Norwood High School and Adelaide University, where he studied for a BSc degree and was awarded a PhD in Geology in 1971. Subsequently he joined the Geological Survey of South Australia, where he has been employed for the last 45 years investigating and documenting the geology of the State.
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| No. | * | B | T | d | doc | Date | Topic, Speaker, Detail |
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| 393 | 18/7/2016 | Vienna-Shanghai-Burnside: The Preiss Family Life JourneyPresented by Wolfgang Victor Preiss Wolfgang Preiss was born in Shanghai in 1944 to Austrian parents Josef and Katharina who, twice in their lives, found… |
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