When Karolina Pfeifer was born on 8 November 1891, in Galicia, Austria, her father, Johann Pfeifer, was 26 and her mother, Katharina Margaretha Mohner, was 24.
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Italy, Austria, and Germany renew the Triple Alliance. The alliance lasts for three more years.
Start of World War I. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austrian throne, is assassinated. Austria joins Germany in fighting the Allies.
German troops seize Austrian lands. Adolf Hitler announces its union with Germany.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Pfeiffer ‘piper, whistler’. This form of the surname is also found in Czechia, Slovenia, Poland, Croatia, the Netherlands, and some other European countries; see also 2 below.
Germanized form of various Slavic adaptations of the German surname (see Pfeiffer 2).
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