Felizia Tyndel, verh. Hohenberg

Born:	10-06-1916
Faculty:	Philosophical School
Category:	Expelled student

Felizia TYNDEL, born on October 6^th, 1916 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), daughter of Dr. Samson Tyndel (1878–1942,lawyer) and Theodora Tauba Tyndel, née Zehngebot (1892-1942), lived in Vienna's 19^th district, Billrothstr. 55, was enrolled finally in the fall term 1937/38 at the School of Philosophy in the 4^th and last year of her studies and took courses in Romance, English and German languages and literature Studies. Her parents had sold their property in Galicia at the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and moved their center of life to Vienna, where they invested in real estate in Vienna and Berlin. Her father gave up his work as a lawyer in 1930 for health reasons and concentrated on real estate management, and the family moved to Berlin (Uhlandstr. 46) in 1931/1932. After graduating from the "Fuerstin Bismarck Realgymnasium in Berlin-Charlottenburg" on March 3^rd, 1934, Felizia Tyndel returned to Vienna to study at the University of Vienna (as did her older brother Martin Tyndel (1915-1970), who had had returned to Vienna, too, to study pharmacy and pharmacognosy after graduating from high school in 1933). Felizia, who had also been elected to the Executive of the Association for Jewish Female University Students, registered for the final examinations / viva voce ("Rigorosen") as early as October 4^th, 1937, and successfully passed the first viva on October 30^th, 1937. Before submitting her dissertation and being admitted to the second viva voce examination, the examination procedure broke down after the "Anschluss" and she was no longer allowed to sit for the examinations and had to discontinue her studies. Her older brother Martin Tyndel (1915-1970), who also studied at the Faculty of Philosophy, was also expelled from the University of Vienna. He returned to his parents in Berlin and in September 1938 fled Germany for Palestine, where he later lived as a pharmacist in Tel Aviv.

The law office of her father Dr. Samson Tyndel (1878-1942), which he had opened in 1918 in Vienna's 1^st district, Wiplinger Str. 35, was finally closed after the "Anschluss". The parents and the youngest brother Erich (1929-1942) were unable to leave Germany in time, and after the expropriation, a nervous breakdown and blindness of the mother in one eye in 1940, the family was arrested on June 20^th, 1940 and convicted and imprisoned for alleged foreign exchange offenses. Following their release, all three were deported from the Berlin-Moabit freight station to Raasiku (Estonia), near Reval, on September 26^th, 1942, and shot there in early October 1942 (in memory of the murdered parents and brother, Stolpersteine were laid in September 2013 in Berlin-Charlottenburg, Uhlandtstr. 46).

Felizia Tyndel also had to flee from Vienna after the Anschluss, married the physician Dr. med. Erich Hohenberg (1910-1968) on May 19^th, 1938 in the Vereinssynagoge in Vienna 2nd, Pazmanitengasse 6, before returning to her parents in Berlin and emigrated with him to England in August 1938. They lived in London, initially in Chadwik, later in Kensington, (until the mid-1950s: in 15, Chepstow Villas, later: in 2, Kensington Park Gardens) and she worked as office clerks. Felizia Hohenberg, née Tyndel, died in August 1997 in Camden, London, England/UK.

Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/Nationale PHIL 1934-1938, final examination file ("Rigorosenprotokoll") PHIL Nr. 13744; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 491; SAUER/REITER-ZATLOUKAL 2010, 349; information from Dr. Barbara Sauer, Vienna 03/2019; "Stolpersteine" for Samson, Theodora and Erich Tyndel, Berlin; www.genteam.at; www.ancestry.de.

Herbert Posch