{geni:about_me} Birth, per genteam.at:
* 1880 Num. [https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-2580...MMGD-2QV:n1568922064 '''5509'''] Wien Reif Heinrich Arnold/Reif Netti

Marriage information, see the Duke University website of his descendant, [http://www.cs.duke.edu/~reif/bio/parents.html John H. Reif]:

"My paternal grandfather Heinrich Reif was a lawyer in Vienna, Austria specializing in'' copyright law''. He married Margit Gestetner from Bratislava in 1913 and they had three children: [http://www.cs.duke.edu/~reif/bio/photos/EvyReif.jpg Evy Featherstone-Witty], Charlotte Alice (Mucki), and my father [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_E._Reif Arnold E. Reif]. Heinrich Reif served as an officer of the Austrian-Hungarian Army in World War I and was captured by the Russian Army and was for 3 years at a prisoner of war camp in Siberia. The camp was on the sea and in the winter he was allowed to walk out onto the ice for exercise. Once he walked too far out, and a Russian Cossack guard rode out on horse back onto the ice to punish him with a whip. My grandfather glared down the Cossack so fiercely, that he turned around and rode back to the camp without hitting him. Later, during the chaos at the beginningof the Russian revolution, my grandfather escaped across Russia back to Austria. Heinrich Reif wrote several books and for his book on ''legislation for Austrian coal mines'' he received Austria's highest civilian decoration, Knight of the Austrian Order of Merit (a white medal the baron wears in the movie “The Sound of Music”). Tragically, in 1934 his wife Margarita died of a kidney shut-down caused by an autoimmune reaction to a drug at age 42. Just before World War II, In 1938 Heinrich Reif escaped to England just prior to the Nazi annexation of Austria, but was imprisoned by the British on the Isle of Man as an enemy alien. In England, he was not able to practice law. A few years after his release he died in London from bladder cancer contracted from chain-smoking. [Per FreeBMD.org.uk: ''Reif Heinrich 65 Hampstead Jan-Mar 1946'']

My father Arnold E. Reif was born in 1924 in Vienna, Austria. His mother died when he was 10. He was very devoted to his governess. Starting when he was about 12, his governess took him skiing at Kitzbuhel, Austria; at that time there were no ski lifts, and the ski bindings used leather straps. In 1936 his English great-granduncle entered him in a boarding school, Giggleswick in Yorkshire, England. During World War II Arnold went to Cambridge University, graduating in 3 years with a BS and then received a MS. After the war, he worked for 3 years at Sheffield University, then went to Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh to earn a D.Sc. (Doctor of Science) in Physical Chemistry.My parents met and were married there, and my older brother Bertrand was born there. Four years after my grandfather died of cancer, my father decided to switch to Cancer Research, and did postdoc work in Cancer Research at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin."

Author of: [http://www.abebooks.co.uk/Handbuch-Schutzmarken-Te...d-Wien/1094617510/bd Handbuch der Schutzmarken-Technik] by Reif, Heinrich. Publ. Gerold & Co, Wien, 1937. Ohlwd. Dr. Heinrich Reif, Rechtsanwalt, Wien (on trademarks).

Detailansicht: Begräbnisse auf den Wiener Israelitischen Friedhöfen
Lfdnr 85046
Familienname Reif
Vorname(n) Heinrich, Dr.
Adresse High Close Holford Rd. London N.W.3.
Beruf
Geburtsdatum/Alter 65
Sterbedatum 1946.02.27
Sterbeort 81. Padington Rd. London NW3
Begräbnisdatum 1956.08.06
Friedhof ZF Tor 1
Gruppe 51
Reihe 016a
Grabnr 1