Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. This section relies largely or entirely on a single source. The next year, he relocated his family to Vienna, where Otto later claimed to have been born. Īfter a year in Graz, Preminger claims he was summoned to Vienna and offered an eminent position (roughly equivalent to that of the United States Attorney General), but was told that the position would be his only if he converted to Catholicism, which he refused to do. When the Preminger family relocated, Otto was nearly nine, and was enrolled in a school where instruction in Catholic dogma was mandatory and Jewish history and religion had no place on the syllabus.

He secured a position as public prosecutor in Graz, capital of Styria. Like other refugees in flight, Markus Preminger saw Austria as a safe haven for his family. Bukovina was invaded by the Russian Army and the Preminger family fled. Īfter the assassination in 1914 of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which led to the Great War, Russia entered the war on the Serbian side. The couple provided a stable home life for Preminger and his younger brother Ingwald, known as 'Ingo', later the producer of the original film version of M*A*S*H (1970).

His parents were Josefa (née Fraenkel) and Markus Preminger. Preminger was born in 1905 in Wischnitz, Bukovina, Austro-Hungarian Empire (present-day Vyzhnytsia, Ukraine), into a Jewish family. ( February 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This section needs additional citations for verification.

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