ABSTRACT
According to family legend, the Schumpeter family originated from before the time of the founding of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in the thirteenth century. At this time, a Baron von Schumpeter was a great German knight fighting with Count Rudolf of Habsburg, who in 1272 became the first Austrian king and emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. The story cannot be verified, but each generation of the Schumpeter family handed it down to the next. 1
