Nagel, William (32108533): Difference between revisions

. William Nagel (formerly Wilhelm Nagelberg) was born the only child of parents Fritz (1883-1960) and Helene Nagelberg (née Licht, 1891 - 1959) in Vienna, Austria, on 10 December 1914. William’s father, Fritz, was the proprietor of his own business and the family resided in Leopoldstatdt, the 2nd municipal district in Vienna. After completing secondary school William went on to study global trade at university and pursued his PhD in Economics. In July 1938 William submitted his dissertation, Über Veränderungen in der Baumwollwirtschaft Großbritanniens vom Weltkrieg bis zur Gegenwart, and became one of the few Jewish students in Austria to be awarded a doctoral degree following the Anschluss. Soon, however, the Nagelberg family decided to flee Austria for Italy. In March 1940 William left Italy for the United States sailing about the SS Vulcania. After his arrival William enlisted with the United States Army. The following year William became a naturalized citizen of the United States and commenced training at Camp Ritchie to become an Army intelligence officer. William would go on to serve in both the Pacific and European theaters of the Second World War. In Late 1945 William was discharged from the Army and returned home. After the war William resumed a career in Economics, working for the Pentagon and in the European Division of the Office of Economic Affairs until his retirement, settling in Washington D.C. William and Gertrude went on to raise a family and later settled in Maryland. Nagelberg's last place of residence was Silver Spring, Maryland. Two days later, William Nagel was buried in the Judean Memorial Gardens near Olney, Maryland, established in 1975 as the Washington metropolitan area's Jewish cemetery. William's certificate of naturalization (and the rear, indicating his name change) His parents, Fritz and Helene, remained in Europe. Several months later he met Gertrude Juris, a young a Jewish refugee also from Vienna.

His gallery includes an honorable-discharge certificate identifying him as a staff sergeant of Headquarters, Military Intelligence Service, European Theater of Operations, dated 22 October 1945.