Karl Josef B. Frank

Born:	05-31-1893
Faculty:	Philosophical School
Category:	Deprivation of academic degree

Karl Josef B. FRANK (born on May 31st, 1893 in Vienna in 1969 New York, USA), had graduated at the Philosophical School at the University of Vienna in Philosophy on July 8th, 1918 with the academic degree 'Dr. phil.' (dissertation: 'Beiträge zur Psychologie der Lüge').
In times of Nazism he was deprived of his academic degree on October 2nd, 1943 because of his political opinion.
It took 4 years since the deprivation until the regranting of the doctorate took finally place on December 15th, 1947.

Lit.: Vienna University Archive /Philosophical School: Nationale 1912-1918, final examination registry ('Rigorosenprotokoll') Ph 59.25, No. 4540, final examination file ('Rigorosenakt') PH RA No. 4540; Graduation registry M34.4 No. 657; estates at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte in Munich, at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace (Stanford, California) and at the Archive for the History of Sociology in Austria; Archive for the History of Sociology in Austria; MÜLLER 1995; RÖDER 1980, 187-188.

Katharina Kniefacz