{"id":602,"date":"2020-09-04T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T08:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/?page_id=602"},"modified":"2020-10-03T08:42:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T06:42:11","slug":"7-leone-brunner","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/en\/the-brunner-family-an-estate\/7-leone-brunner\/","title":{"rendered":"Leone Brunner"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1680\" class=\"wp-image-92\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/12_Identitaetskarte_Leopold_Berti_200311JM-Brunner044-e1601278109742.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\r\n<figcaption>ID of Leone Brunner under his false name of Leopold Berti, October 16, 1943. Jewish Museum Hohenems, Carlo Alberto Brunner Estate<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\"><br \/>Leone Brunner (1908 \u2013 1969) was the youngest child of Rodolfo and Gina Brunner in Trieste. He studied agriculture and converted to Catholicism in 1930. In 1932, he married Maria Teresa (Tea) Clerici; the couple had five children. On his family\u2019s estates, Leone led the life of the landed gentry, characterized by a passion for hunting and other hobbies befitting his rank. As heir of his parents\u2018 considerable possessions, he also became board member of Banca Triestina as well as president of the stockbreeders\u2019 association. After the German Wehrmacht\u2019s invasion of Trieste in 1943, he joined the resistance against the National Socialists and assumed in this context the false identity of \u201cLeopold Berti.\u201d Part of his resistance activities consisted in drafting reports to the American armed forces on locations and types of the German invaders\u2019 military installations<b> <\/b>and vehicles. In the meantime, his family remained fairly protected on the Brunners\u2019 Forcoli country estate. Following liberation, the family returned to Trieste. After his wife\u2019s death in 1947, Leone Brunner would never remarry.<br \/><br \/><\/span><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"971\" height=\"1024\" class=\"wp-image-163\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Bericht_deutsche_Stellungen_200311JM-Brunner050-971x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Bericht_deutsche_Stellungen_200311JM-Brunner050-971x1024.jpg 971w, http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Bericht_deutsche_Stellungen_200311JM-Brunner050-284x300.jpg 284w, http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Bericht_deutsche_Stellungen_200311JM-Brunner050-768x810.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Bericht_deutsche_Stellungen_200311JM-Brunner050-1456x1536.jpg 1456w, http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Bericht_deutsche_Stellungen_200311JM-Brunner050-640x675.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Bericht_deutsche_Stellungen_200311JM-Brunner050.jpg 1820w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 971px) 100vw, 971px\" \/>\r\n<figcaption>Location description of German military installation in Rome, February 26, 1944. Jewish Museum Hohenems, Carlo Alberto Brunner Estate<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leone Brunner (1908 \u2013 1969) was the youngest child of Rodolfo and Gina Brunner in Trieste. He studied agriculture and converted to Catholicism in 1930. In 1932, he married Maria Teresa (Tea) Clerici; the couple had five children. On his family\u2019s estates, Leone led the life of the landed gentry, characterized by a passion for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":611,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[51,44,66],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/602"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":742,"href":"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/602\/revisions\/742"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lasteuropeans.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}